Thwarted

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Due to high winds and surf overwashing the dock at Falmouth, Jamaica, the port stop was scrubbed. Today became an extra sea day instead. So much for my plans for country #94. On to plan B. While I took  a late morning shower to get rid of a good coat of sunscreen I wouldn't be needing, Clay made flight reservations for Thursday when we get back to Florida. We'll fly out of Miami for a one night stay in Montego Bay. They say if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. We'll see if he keeps laughing at us.

We've been in high winds almost continuously since we left Port Everglades. It sounds like the Captain expects it to continue. At noon, he said we're in 15 foot seas. You could really feel it at the top deck's aft buffet restaurant. Our cabin steward said IoS stops in Falmouth all the time and he'd never known it to be cancelled before like this. I would imagine it was rare. Just bad luck. Hopefully, we'll make it on Thursday and back on Friday.

They announced that they'd automatically credit today's missed excursions to our shipboard accounts. Ours was $8 of our money and $75 of complimentary shipboard credit. So no real loss either way. We later found they'd automatically refunded port charges, fees and taxes.

It took a couple of slow Internet hours to get a hotel room and airport transfer booked. We needed to vacate the cabin for service since it seems on port days the stewards don't arrive until after the passengers would be ashore. It forced us to locate the library. Deck 5 forward outside the theater entrance.

We cancelled our dinner at 6:30 pm tonight at our reserved time & table. The movie Judy is scheduled to air at 6 pm tonight on TV. We'll go for pizza early so we can watch it. (Thumbs down for RCI for no on demand TV!) Last night we set a cruise meal speed record. We had ordered and finished our main course in 15 minutes! In and out in well under 30 minutes which meant we needed to spend another 1/2 hour loitering elsewhere to give the cabin steward an hour's allowance to service the cabin. Peppermint tea for me in Cafe Promenade since no one ever offered tea or coffee at the dining table after bringing dessert.

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