Sailing the Med - October 25

Just after 9:30 the repair man knocked on my door to look at the refrigerator.  He played with it awhile and said he would be back later to check it again.

My first chore of the day was to make another pitcher of tea so I went to the Lido and poured the hot water and brought some packets of sweetener back to my cabin to let the tea seep.  Since it is herbal tea, I can leave the tea bags in for quite some time.  

The next chore was to talk with the Cruise Specialist rep about the hat and bag I missed getting while in solitary.  Turns out the new couple were there so I got to meet them.

Then I went to Sit and Stitch and met up with the two Judys and discussed their projects.  I worked on the Linus blanket for this cruise (I am only doing one because you really needed to bring your own yarn although the organizer had a few skeins that had been donated).

After lunch I headed to the Crow's Nest for 1pm trivia.  My two teammates were there and we did fairly well.

I wasn't really planning to go to Crafts today but I needed to upload the pictures from yesterday and it was nicer to sit in the Lido than in my cabin😱.  It took me about 90 minutes to upload all the pictures and write the captions but that was better than the ten minutes per picture that I was getting last night.

In crafts we made a little pouch to hold hand sanitizer and she gave us a bottle to put in it.  At the table we were discussing that we were surprised we had not gotten a bottle in our cabins at the start of the cruise (HAL used to do this).

Once I finished my pouch, it was back to the Crow's Nest for 4pm trivia.  Once again I had no team and afterwards I walked around to check out the teams.  It looked like the only people who did not have a six person team were those who were not playing, just enjoying happy hour.

I am determined to figure out why I cannot get into my HAL account and look at my future cruises.  I went to Guest Services and the man at the desk tried a number of times, both on my iPad and his computer and nothing worked.  He said to come back when nobody was sitting around the phone by the desk and he would dial headquarters and let me talk with them.

By then it was 5:00 and I had only walked two miles for the day so a few laps were in order.  I walked five laps and got almost a mile and a half.  I caught the end of a beautiful sunset as I was finishing lap 5.  I have walked more laps of the Promenade deck in the first two weeks of the cruise (even minus the 6 days of solitary) than in all my other cruises combined!  The hat and bag from the travel agency were on my bed when I returned from my walk.

Dinner was tasty (I had the "Rustic Lasagna" which is always on the menu) and then went to the show which was another by the duo, Ole!

Tomorrow we are in port in Souda, which is on the island of Crete.  I will be taking the bus into Chania and my main focus is on finding an ATM and getting some Euros and then wandering around.

We lose another hour tonight.

1pm trivia - We had 13 out of 18 and two winning teams had 17

1.  In ancient Greece, throwing an apple at someone was a declaration of what?

2.  What is the only country where the national flag is not  a rectangle?

3.  What building was the first to employ round-the-clock plumbers to tend their 1000 toilets?

4.  What is a group of porcupines called?

5.  What dinosaur's name means "fast thief"?

1.  love

2.  Nepal

3.  Empire State Building

4.  prickle

5.  velociraptor

4pm trivia - I had 13 out of 17 (much better than a couple of days ago) and the winners had 16

1.  What is the most common letter in the English language?

2.  In what country did bagels originate?

3.  What is the highest mountain in Africa?

4.  What are the bones in the fingers called?

5.  What is a group of cheetahs called?

1.  E

2.  Poland

3.  Kilimanjaro

4.  phalanges

5.  coalition

Smooth sailing until next time!

the hand sanitizer pouch we made

the hat and bag from my travel agency