Day 86 - Friday March 24 at sea

Sea Day 86
position at 7:00am: N23 43.28 latitude E61 26.27 longitude
(about 540 miles SE of Dubai, our next port)
temperature: 73F, 91% humidity, partly cloudy with some breeze
distance since FLL: 28,012 miles
Clay walked this morning and it was very nice with a a nice breeze. The Japanese lady that walks in the morning had on elephant pants. (Clay wants to make sure Debbie knows this since she was coveting this woman's elephant blouse in Bangkok. He did point out that the pants did not go with the blouse. Debbie is so over it, she has more elephant things than she ever needed now!)
Debbie was a slow starter this morning. She does not feel very well. She dressed for morning aerobics class and we went up to LaVeranda for breakfast. She had banana and oatmeal finally, after the run of chocolate croissants, so maybe that will make her feel better. Clay bacon and tomato sandwich. After breakfast, we came by the cabin and it had not been touched. We took down the service sign and Debbie changed out of her exercise clothes. She will not make it today. She took some medications and we took the computer downstairs to get the last 2 journal entries posted. After an hour or so, we came back to the cabin and Debbie took some more drugs and went back to bed. Clay went to a lecture but all the back seats were full, so he didn't stay. He read Monday's USA Today and Wall Street Journal in the library. While he was gone a room service waiter, woke Debbie with the doorbell, looking for an ice bucket. He must have thought she was loopy as she showed him in and said I don't understand, there WAS an ice bucket here, a big one with a stand. Debbie told him someone must have taken it already. (When Clay heard about this, his comment was that we better not see that bucket with stand on our account.) He came back to see if Debbie would get up for lunch. She would. She still felt bad with a headache and the chest cold, but she no longer felt dizzy and nauseous too. They were having a Rossini BBQ on the Pool Deck but we went down to Compass Rose. Clay felt compelled to order a Kingfisher Beer after Ricardo told him last night that thanks to Clay they would now be stocked in all outlets. We got a completely new bar waiter that we have never seen before. (We should point out that there must have been a pretty good crew turnover at Mumbai, because we are seeing quite a few new faces besides this one.) He was dubious about finding a Kingfisher, but Clay assured him that he would find one. He came back with a big smile for Clay and told him he was right. Clay ordered a hamburger and Debbie ordered a turkey sandwich. During lunch Laurens came in, Debbie wave to him and said thank you. He stopped and spoke to a couple by the walkway, we were by the window. Laurens waved over to Clay and Clay boomed out, I have a bone to pick with you! Laurens, laughed and said, what now, there is no local beer in Dubai! Clay told him, I had to spend an afternoon drinking a six pack of Kingfisher in the sun because of you. Laurens laughed and Debbie added, thanks again, Clay has given himself aversion therapy to Kingfisher. By this time, the wait staff who all knew all about it were laughing too. We both had cinammon and dulce de leche ice cream for dessert. Debbie went back up to the cabin and slept the rest of the afternoon.
Tonight is Formal night and the Captain's Farewell Party for this segment. We have not been to one of these yet. So, we went. The crew put on a show with 5 or 6 songs. They pulled a guest from the audience and put a Beatles wig on him and gave him a rubber guitar. That part was funny. Debbie wore her new salwar kameez tonight.
Sea Day 86