Late afternoon here in Bimini. The internet has been very flaky this whole trip and was really bad this morning while I was trying to tell my Muskegon story. So I wasn’t able to spell-check Shoe’s pizza place. I now learn it’s “Pizza by Mr. Scrib’s”. So one “b” and an apostrophe.
Except of course in a couple places on their website where instead they spell it “Mr. Scribs Pizza” with the words in a different order and no apostrophe.
Both of which of course are spelling / grammar screw-ups beside the Branding 101 failure to have exactly one name for your company and product. “Mr. Scribs Pizza” should have the apostrophe and “Pizza by Mr. Scrib’s”. should not. Folks from the Midwest are so sweet. Not so great at English (or websites), but sweet.
Go Shoe.
As to me …
Yesterday (Mon) at sea was pleasant. This time the boat is going the other way, westbound towards Florida. With the result that my cabin is on the south sunny side and we’re traveling with the wind. Earlier in the voyage we’re going ~20mph and the wind is about 15mph going the other way, so it was darn windy except when hidden behind a shelter. The boat has lots of sheltered spaces, but a big gust blows by often when driving more or less into the wind. Now, our motion just about cancels the wind and it’s super pleasant outdoors with just a gentle waft of moving air.
After breakfast, they day had couple of single group gaggles, some nappy sun on my balcony, and a multi-course 2+ hour nouveau cuisine Mexican dinner with a nice 40-ish lady who lives a few miles from my brother in SoCal where I grew up. She had been a nurse in USAF and now is in medical insurance admin. Then I pub-crawled (and met the Muskegon folks plus many more) while she napped then we reconvened for dancing once she’d recharged. Which dancing ran until about 1:30am.
As to today:
At about sunrise we docked at Bimini. I slept in to 8:30 (!) so missed sunrise and docking.
After breakfast I got ready for my shore excursion to snorkel at an old wreck a mile+ offshore. It got driven onto a shoal during a hurricane. Sapona - (tripadvisor.com).
So about 25 of us droned out there, swam with the fish and in and out of the wreck for awhile, then returned to land. Very pretty water; some of the best in the world. Like all wrecks, this one was kinda creepy, but creepy-lite compared to some. Otherwise not a lot of coral right there, so the fish were plentiful, but just a couple of ordinary sorts. We did not see sharks, although that was a possibility.
Once back on land I went to the cruise line’s shore compund nearby. Lotta great sand at a real beach, a huge pool with (spoilered for JtC) about 800 people in the pool and another 500 on the sand, plus about 300 people at the eateries / drinkeries. The tunes were cranked, their cheerleaders were keeping the party alive, the drinks were cold, the food hot and good, and more alcohol and solar radiation was duly absorbed. It seems a lot of the older lazier less photogenic folks stayed on the boat, so this crowd was heavily selected from the [cute to look at] subset of either gender. One of life’s simple pleasures that never gets old.
Now back on the boat, showered and cooled off. About to finish dressing for an hour of music, then back upstairs to get fully pretty for long fancy dinner tonight. Of course there’s more dancing even later until stupid-late or I get sleepy.
Overnight the boat goes back to the real world. Or at least as real as Miami gets. It’s a pretty unreal place.
I’ll get off the boat around 1030 and get home around 1pm after a dawdly morning every step of the way.
FCM - best of luck. Hospice there at your place, with suitable staff on duty to relieve you and FCD of almost all direct care responsibilities is probably the happiest option if it’s available. {{Hugs}}.
I did read everything else.
