Just had a lobster dinner and still sitting here in the lido. Bill is reading whilst I blog. We also had french cut porkchops. Anyone know what the heck that is? We don’t! It has been foggy with very little visibility today. But…our captain has told us that as we near Greenland it will clear up.
We are getting up at five tomorrow morning (not so hard as each night for the last three nights we have been putting our clocks back an hour). We will be one hour out from entering Prins Christian Sund (thats how its spelt) That is when we will see fin whales, the second largest whales on earth, blue whales, the largest and polar bears along the coast. The channel we travel tomorrow is sixty miles long and at times so narrow it is only as wide as the ship is long. Apparently there are soaring cliffs and glaciers. Oh I wish I could show pics. The captain is taking us into fiords and around narrow channels where no cruise ship has ever gone before…so an exciting day! It is very very very isolated and lots of icebergs to navigate around.
On another note we went to four lectures today. So interesting. Two of them were by that geologist I have mentioned about greenland and the sund. Two of them were by the astronomer that is aboard. At every single lecture, we have gone down early enough to get “our” seats. Second row right by the middle aisle. In the first row, for every lecture, for every performance and for every tour, a tiny weeny crippled over little lady has sat right in front of us. She is about 87 years old and as charming as charm gets. She talks to everyone and is as sharp as a tack. Beside her a lady of about 75, travelling alone, sits. She is a part time travel lecturer in a college near Port Angelos and Anacortis. We have all become somewhat friendly and are now on first name basis. Esther, the older lady is from San Francisco. And today she wasn’t there. So after the fourth lecture, around four o’clock, I mentioned to Sheila, the other lady, that Esther wasn’t there. We became a little alarmed. Then the bar steward who goes around taking drink orders noticed and mentioned to us that she was missing. So Sheila decided to go to the front desk and just notify them that we hadn’t seen her and since she is travelling alone we are a little concerned. They knew who she was talking about immediately.
A few minutes ago I just ran into Sheila. They cannot find her. She isn’t in her room and they have scoured the ship and cannot find her. A few of us are now quite alarmed, as is the crew. I am seeing a number of decorated officers gathering with security and walkie talkies a………Oh, they just made a public announcement. They have called her name and asked her to call front desk and asked us passengers to keep an eye out for her. Oh Lordy. She is the dearest little person you’d ever want to meet. Where could she be?
Well, its time to sign off and get to bed. We have an early early morning. Oh….and that bag Bill had? He gave it to me. Inside was a shirt for Dorothy. What a sweet man…even if he annoys the hell out of me now and then. And I know for a fact that I annoy the hell out of him even more. LOL!! TTYL
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