THE WINDS AND THE WAVES ARE IN GOD'S CONTROL ~~ March 9

WINDY DAY AT SEA ~~ March 10

I guess it was windy and rocky all night long but the Dramamine pretty much takes off the edge, and we slept great. In fact, it worked so well for me that Richard had to wake me at 9:00 a.m. so that I could get up and be ready for the resuming lecture by Mr. John Maxtone-Graham. We heard him each morning on Monday-Thursday of last week as he discussed his book, ’THE ONLY WAY TO CROSS” but, of course, the lectures were discontinued on Friday-Monday as we were at our ports-of-call on the four different Hawaiian Islands. Now that we are out at sea as we make our way back to LA, his talks have resumed and will take us through Friday morning. I had my picture made with him last week and then we just now ran into him and his lovely wife Mary as we were leaving from our lunch. He was very gracious and it was delightful to meet Mary. They are well-bred and high cultured. Reckon any of it has rubbed off on me? Probably not.

The Captain announced over the public address system that we are experiencing high winds and therefore rough seas as this area of the Pacific has a dome of high pressure above it which is causing the wind and waves. He said that our “comfort and safety” are his utmost concern and to please be careful when walking about and to be sure to use the handrails, etc. The upper outside decks are closed as it is too dangerous to be up and outside at that height. We are every so thankful that the Dramamine works so well for us and that we have the non-drowsy formula for daytime which allows us to be very alert and able to enjoy all of our activities and for the regular “drowsy” formula at night which affords us a good night’s sleep.

After attending the lecture, we went by the Passenger Services Desk to turn in our form to have our checked luggage picked up on Friday night. This cheap service ($20 for the two of us) also provides us with our boarding tickets for the plane in LA. Our sweet Maria, our steward, will be able to help us in getting our bags weighed sometime on Friday to make sure we get them evened out so that nothing weighs more than the 50# limit.

From there, we dropped by and had lunch. Richard had gone and gotten me a cup of decaf coffee which is all I had for breakfast so my lunch of soup/salad/half-a-Ruben sandwich tasted really good.

We are now back in our room for a while. It is nice and breezy out on our balcony so I think I’ll go out there and read for a while. Richard looks all comfy as he is watching Fox News. Glenn Beck is on here at 1:00-2:00 due to the time change. It is now 4:25 at home and our kids are getting ready to end their work day as our ship day is just barely into the early afternoon hours. (We gained an hour back last night and advance another hour before we get back to LA. We’ll then have one more time change when we fly into Dallas so we are slowly but surely getting ourselves revved back up to the central time zone.

We have “formal night” this evening so will probably not skip it as we did last week coming over. I have a new red top to wear ~~ assuming that it still fits!!!
It is so rocky sitting here at the desk typing. I am wobbling from side to side in my chair like crazy. Again, I’m thanking the Lord that the Dramamine works so well for the two of us.

I am going to try to post a few pics from yesterday’s visit to Maui.

We do hope and pray that our family and friends back home are all doing well. We think of you and pray for you often.

Sailing for Home,
Richard and Susan