500 Saturdays: Nomad Diary

Saturday Activities:  Our 2nd full sea day. Arise around 5:30 am. Go to the gym and get yoga mats and do one of our DDP Yoga routines. Mirrored wall reflects us in the gym. About 7am we go to the buffet for breakfast. At 8am we arrive at a passenger led Bible study. Darrell is leading a group on sea days as we read the gospel of John together.  10 am is a port lecture for Halifax on Monday.  Then we go back to the buffet for a light lunch.. We visit with Tricia and Gary. The temperature is dropping as we head north in the Atlantic. It's rainy and we take a nap.  5:20 pm we go to the dining room and get seated randomly at a group table. We enjoy the visit and meeting new people. After dinner about 7pm, we often go to a live show in the theater, but this day we opt to go to the hot tub for a soak.  After this, we go back to our cabin to rest and read. I see a rainbow with two sides, from our cabin. I go to the upper deck and get a full 180 rainbow pict...

Darrell and I Saturday Activities:  9am we get our Austrailian cruising friends at the cruiseport.  They are travelers, well-seasoned, but they got thrown a curve. They had a flight on Spirit Air that just canceled with no help for a backup. They took their change of plans with great flexibility even though there was disappointment and many new decisions to make. They ended up staying in Ft Lauderdale and finding a reasonable and nice hotel without needing a car.  Tricia and me in Ft Lauderdale  Me, Darrell and Gary in Ft Lauderdale  Darrell took Janice, our host to Lowe's home improvement store to shop for what he needs to fix a light in her dated kitchen. It's a fun, and busy day. Darrell gets through some glitches, and gets the light installed. Janice cooks us dinner.  Darrell working on installing the light. Light installed.  Week's Highlights: Tree in Janice's front yard Sunda...

Saturday Activities: Arrive Ft Lauderdale.  Leave the ship. Taxi to friend's house for our 12 day stay thanks to her urging and hospitality toward us. Ft Lauderdale  Ship parked next to ours. I rested today with a nap. Darrell and I can't get our truck until Monday morning, so we walked to the grocery and picked up some of our usual items: eggs, sourdough bread, cheese and crackers,  a can of chicken noodle soup for Darrell,  fish taco makings, a lemon to juice for homemade Italian dressing, lettuce, radishes, tea and coffee. Our host is supplying many more details and items. Week's Highlights:  Sunday: at Port Armador in Panama City waiting for our turn to go through the Panama Canal on Monday. We did our daily routine: exercise routine,  breakfast,  then our Sunday worship together,  and then waiting to ride a tender to land.  Monday: Transverse the Panama Canal for 11 hours.  Tue...