Gulf of Aden, Day 3

17 Nov. Thursday:  I think maybe I put the wrong day of the week on yesterday’s blog, oh well.  Today is our last day at sea before Muscat, Oman.  After posting the blog up in the Windjammer and reading emails, we headed to the Galley Buffet.  They said they never did this particular event in the past.  They told us about the buffet last night at dinner and advised all of us that we must wear closed-toe shoes in order to participate (walk into the galley to get out food).  They sent at least a half a dozen people out of the line in front of us because they had on open toed sandals.  Anyway, it was interesting and a nice event, I took a lot of photos. 

We played bingo today and we were really close to winning but of course that didn’t happen.  We also had coupons for free pulls on a slot machine.  While others before us won at least a key chain, we got zip!  That’s okay… We played cards in the card room and a bit of backgammon as well.  Today we were a bit off the grid as they warned us the satellite TV would have nothing “live” (like the news) for 3-4 hours.  No bother to us of course as we were doing other things.  This is the activities director Cuddy, he’s a kick.

I bought some new rechargeable batteries for my camera but they don’t seem to hold the charge very well either.  Maybe there is something wrong with my camera?  Ugh.  I hope it lasts for this trip! 

When we went back to our cabin to spiff up for dinner (casual) we watched the first sunset we could see from our balcony.  All the others have been on the starboard side but due to our position we had this treat on the port side.  The additional treat was a school of small dolphins along side.  Really the only way to describe them was “frolicking” as they seemed to be having so much fun.  There were probably about 15-20 of them, nice to see as we really haven’t seen any sea life along this voyage. 

Dinner was 6 tonight.  There was some mix up with George and Tawny and I am not sure about Camilla and Kurt.  We ate with a nice couple from England, along with Darlene and Stuart.  Back to our cabin and prepare for tomorrow’s excursion in Muscat, Oman.

I’m posting this early since we will be leaving for our excursion at 8am.