Tuesday, April 21, 2009

First Port of Call

Tuesday April 21 2009

I am trying something new. I am sitting in our stateroom at 7:45 AM, we have just docked at our first port—Dubrovnik, Croatia. Our stateroom looks out across a small harbor to a nice town …a lot of stucco buildings with red roofs. There are scores of small sailboats and fishing boats docked in the water very picturesque.

I plan to write the blog in Word then copy it to the blog and sent it later which should save money and give me more time than typing at 40 cents a minute. The weather is overcast and temperature is about 60 degrees. We did not sign up for a tour so we will get off after breakfast and do some exploring.

Yesterday, I blogged in the morning after the Messina straits, and had some trouble with photos and then with transmissions. The whole process consumed most of the morning, after that Charlotte and I did a little on board exploring and bought a couple of tee shirts. Marlene and Lyle went to a champagne art auction….but did not bid on anything. After lunch I took a nap for a couple of hours. Our first formal evening was last night. Lyle and I ordered rented tuxes that were delivered to our rooms. Marlene looked very nice in a black off shoulder top with a very nice black necklace. Charlotte was lovely in red long sleeved top with a black shawl. At 7 we went to the theater for a show of Broadway tunes sung by four young singers. For dinner we had a four course meat with lobster thermidor for the main course and Marlene treated us to a bottle of Chardonnay. Dinner is very leisurely and we have Indonesian waiters who are with us each meal at table 7 in the main dining room…late seating. After dinner I tried my hand in poker again. I lost three big hands with river suck outs ( the last card won for my opponent) so now I am behind. Got to bed about Midnight…slept well and then awaken with the docking process.

Charlotte has showered so it is my turn….breakfast then some exploration of Croatia….sorry I do not know the appropriate Serbian phase to close.

10:15 AM

Well it has been raining so we dallied over breakfast ( I had Scottish Eggs Benedict smoked salmon, eggs, and hollandaise sauce….very nice) for a while meeting and talking with some nice people from Manassas. They filled us in on the first 16 days of “the crossing” and gave us tips on Barcelona and Monaco where we will stop the second 10 days. It is now clearing so we are going to get off the ship…..

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