Thursday, January 9, 2020

January 9th - Last Sea Day before Southamtpon


The Captain announced yesterday that we would be late getting into Southampton tomorrow (Friday).  We were scheduled to get in at 6:30 AM and now it will be noon.  Needless to say, this is causing a lot of transportation problems with people scheduled to get off.  For us, it doesn’t matter, we’re just getting off to do a little shopping.

We have had a very nice British couple sitting near us at dinner and they were planning to drive home, their only concern is that it will be dark before they get to their village.  We had fun with them, mostly plotting how they could get a certain piece of expensive jewelry home without declaring it to customs. 

Starting with the next leg of the trip we will be moving to a different table that oversees the rest of the dining room.  Where we are now is a little too stuck in the corner for us.

With the help of my brother (Ernie), we were able to avert a possible problem in our basement back home.  Through the wonder of modern technology and security cameras we were able to see some water on the floor of our basement.  Ernie went to investigate and while he was there, we could see and hear him …from our room… in the middle of the ocean.  Although we were able to hear him perfectly fine, he couldn’t hear us so I was emailing him questions and he was speaking the answers.  Kind of cool.  Long story short…the plumbers came today and fixed a corroded valve and all seems well now. 

It will be great to be on dry land tomorrow!

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