I try to do everything right but I botched up the tour to
Naples today. Yesterday was a messy day. We stayed over in Rome due to bad
weather. They took our 1:00 pm tour tickets and asked if we wanted to take the same
tour today. We did. However, the tour today left at 8 am and we missed it. I
talked to the shore excursion people and they very kindly gave us a refund.
Bill doesn’t care if we go on any tours. He is just as happy to stay on the
ship. Especially today, when it rained pizzas and meatballs (hey, we are in
Naples!)
I told a joke to the cruise director and I fouled that up,
too. The joke was, “Why couldn’t the animals play cards on Noah’s Ark? (Because
Noah was standing on the deck.)” I said
it slightly wrong and it wasn’t funny that way.
The new people who came on in Rome are impatient and
irritable. We miss the ones who left. Apparently, the new people were very
upset that we missed a port day and complained to the front desk. As a gesture
of penance (even though there was no need for penance), the captain sent
waiters around with champagne for everyone at dinner time. Well, almost
everyone. We are teetotallers so we passed on this treat. We are totally on the
captain’s side. We didn’t want to spend the day in the lifeboats, watching our
cruise ship sail without us.
