Hello to everyone.
Goodness I cannot believe it is over a week since I last put pen to
paper.
I think everyone has settled into
life on the high seas, mostly everyone looks quite relaxed now and one knows
many more faces now.
We had the first
performance of our choir last Thursday and it actually sounded pretty OK there
was standing room only at the Princess Theatre, so good fun really.
We are now preparing “The Prayer” for our
service at Anzac Cove on 25
th June.
Then the one after this is just the day prior to arriving in
Ireland, so
lots of work to go into that.
Our
musical directors are Alan and Alana and they are very patient with us
all.
By the way Ray and Paula thank you
for your message on the blog, I gave your best to Alan and Alana and they were
delighted and sent their best to you both as well, Sam and I hope your next
cruise is great as well.
We arrived in Mumbai last Friday, we had actually cancelled
our tour, Sam had a nasty cold and we just went for a very short wander and had
a ship day. We then arrived in Dubai a couple of days
later, Sam did a desert safari, a camel ride which was fun, I just went for a
city drive. Quite an amazing place and
you could certainly do with at least a week to just get an idea of the place
but somewhere I would like to come back to.
We are now at sea for five days
and arrive in Safaga in Egypt on Sunday, we have a very long day that day, we
are going to the Valley of the Kings and that is a four hour drive there and
back , the following day we arrive in Aqaba in Jordan and Sam has a tour booked
for Petra, I have cancelled that one for myself. After that day we pass thru the Suez Canal
and that will take a day and we then arrive in Ashdod
in Israel and we have a tour
to visit Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
We are still sailing thru Pirate infested waters and this morning there
was Korean warship patrolling close by,
these warships give safe passage to ships thru these waters. We will be going into the Red Sea tomorrow
morning at about 5.30 passing by Somalia so very dangerous waters
indeed.
We have met lots new CBFs
and our dinners are very good fun.
I have not been to many of the shows I am so busy thru the day, start my
day with my stretch class and abs workshop then Zumba so goodness busy indeed, Sam
is still pounding the deck. This
afternoon I am going to have a little sleep I think. Hope everyone is well as we are, we still
have not been able to attach our photos, it is quite frustrating dealing with
the satellite, I just type everything up in word and they transfer it over when
we have connection. Anyway I will sign
off and do some emails. Love Sam and
Sabine XXXX
I wondered if the lapse between posts was due to trouble with pirates, so it's good to hear that there's a warship keeping you safe!
ReplyDeleteWe were glad to finally find some blogs from the World Cruise. We are looking forward to the Sea Princess sailing into Cork Harbour and Cobh on 7th July and can now keep up to date on the progress of the cruise
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