May 20, 2012 - at sea

May 20, 2012 - at sea

We slept in this morning.

We are now half way though the cruise. We are in port tomorrow in Dakar, Senegal. We have a tour book to go to Ile de Goree which is an island off the coast which was the site of the slave detention and the major point of departure in this area of Africa.

Before we left home I joined a web site called Cruise Critic. They have a bulletin board online for cruises which allows passengers on the same cruise to set up private tours. Today they have a get together and we are going. We have already met a member who we play bridge with. He organized a tour to Marrakech while we are in Casablanca. He had a cancelation and asked if we want to go, Evelyn does but I don't want to do a 7 hour round trip bus drive. You only have a couple of hours once you get there. Evelyn says I had better find her something to do in Casablanca or I'm in trouble. We have toured Casablanca before, but we never got to the really good markets so I'll find out where they are and we can go there for shopping. We have already done the regular city tour and the grand Mosque. Casablanca isn't as romantic as Rick portrays it in the movies.

One of my food complaints is there is no bread for sandwiches at the lunch buffet. They have ready made sandwiches, but today they were carving roast beef and it dawned on me to go to the grill and get a hamburger bun and make a roast beef sandwich. We were on this same ship six months ago and I never though of doing that. Duh!!

We played bridge and are awaiting the results. In duplicate you never know how well you do until ever one plays the same hand and the results are tallied. You can bid and make a contract, but someone may bid a better contract and make it. We just wait and see. The results today were not good.

The Cruise Critic get together was informative. We now have a better understanding how it works and it is something that we may use in the future.

The entertainment tonight was Shan O'shay, billed as a comic he really is a funny impressionist singer. He started out slow, but improved as the show progressed. He is good friends with Hyperion Knight the pianist and Don thinks there are a couple.

We played music trivia in the Casino Lounge and our team scored 17 out of 25. We thought the score was pretty good and we finished third. All the questions were multiple choice so maybe that helped a little. Our team name is now"Deck 8" as a all of our cabins are on the 8th deck.


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Hal