We stayed up late last night watching a long movie (I think it was titled, First Man. About the first man on the moon.) I slept in even though we had that extra hour last night. Clay was up walking laps in the dark on deck 7 with a few other crazy guys he's making buddies with. Clay pointed out that breakfast started at 7 am today and I pointed out that we didn't have to be there when they open. It looked like we weren't the only with that opinion.
Reflections says Marketplace will have German buffet today. Of course, yesterday it said there would be an Asian buffet and there wasn't so we'll be surprised which ever way it goes today. Dinner will be at Waterside tonight. It is still smooth sailing! Loving it. We have tickets to Magic Castle at Sea at 4:30 pm. The Cruise Critic Meet & Mingle is at 5:15 pm in the same location. Hopefully we'll have cleared out first since we were planning to miss this last one. (We missed the 1st segment's because we didn't receive an invitation. We attended segments 2 & 3.) So plans are for another lazy and restful sea day.
We have received 2 excursion notifications regarding St. Helena now. We are booked on a kind of overview & Napoleon Highlights tour. Yesterday we were warned about difficult walking conditions. Today we were warned about not up to our expectations or standards in tourism conditions for guides and equipment, specifically no A/C. It has been cooler everywhere than expected for a while so we'll hope we don't notice the lack of AC. As to difficult walking, they failed to mention that it is a tender port that is often canceled due to big swells rolling ashore. If you can make it ashore, you can probably walk well enough. That seems to be the first and biggest hurdle to pass.
Bite update. It seems mostly healed. I wore Neosporin and a bandage on it for 3 days/nights. Until the adhesive rash was worse than the puncture wounds. They seem flat and healed and not inflamed, red, angry and seeping anymore. Now I'm just waiting for the adhesive rash to settle down. There will probably be permanent marks where the actual bites were just like fire ant bites. Still no idea exactly when or where I got bitten. Just woke up on the 3rd morning in Cape Town and they were there. I hate to think I was bitten in bed in the cabin, but that is when it seems it must have happened. The good news is that it hasn't happened again. Clay says whatever bit me died. Let's hope!
Surprise. It actually was a German food buffet and it was quite good. We had a heavy lunch. Clay got us Portuguese egg tarts at midmorning too. I feel stuffed. Clay brought a paper ice cream cup of potato chips to the cabin for an afternoon treat with some of his cheap Namibian beer.
Shortly after Clay repaired to the balcony with his chips & lager, he called out, hammerhead shark, hammerhead shark. I don't know if his sighting of the hammerhead makes up for the day I saw the pair of blue whales, but he seemed as excited as I was that day.
I'll assume no other news and post this now.
Little Bob hits the road
Little Bob hits the road
