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Bob's scrambled eggs

The ship was bouncing around all night - in our room it has a kind of side to side shift. We could hear the engines working away. The sea state was reported to be rough. The wind was broadside to us and I think the waves were leftover from the hurricane.

We went up to breakfast in the dining room at 8 - same menu as in 2006, but no specials. No guy coming around offering pastries and donuts - just bread and bagels. There were nice lily buds on the table. We ate with two women. Bob had figs and scrambled eggs, and I had oatmeal and an omelet

After breakfast I switched to Personal Choice dining. What the guy said to me was that they couldn't accommodate everyone who wanted fixed dining in the upper dining room, so they put half of them downstairs. He said almost everyone wanted to eat between 7 and 8 and if we wanted to switch to PC, that we might have to wait for a table. But I switched anyway, because I don't want to eat then.

I decided to walk around the deck as we did not intend to go ashore at Half Moon. So I did about 1/4 mile (one time around the deck

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Tenders to take people to shore

I stopped to take pictures of us coming in but I could not get out on the bow from deck 6 or 7 to watch the anchoring.

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Climbed on the rail to get this picture

I did climb up on one rung of the railing so I could see down to the side over the ledge to where one of the ships was coming alongside. Of course I'm not supposed to do that

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One of the desserts on the buffet

We went up to lunch in the buffet about 11:45. There was no dining room service because they have a BBQ on the beach at Half Moon.

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Lido deck pool

After lunch I went for a swim in the pool. No one else was swimming although some people were sitting around. That's because everyone else was ashore. Bob sat and watched my stuff.

At three we went to Team Trivia and lucked into a group of four people - two from Canada named Dolly and Mike, and two from PA named Norm and Nancy. They are all trivia buffs. We did quite well, getting 15 out of 21 correct, but another group won with 17. I think we might have been 2nd. We missed the name of the river with Victoria Falls (we said the Nile and it was the Zambezi), we missed which pole Peary got to in 1909, we missed the name for a safe cracker (peter man), and we had absolutely no idea what the maximum number of golf clubs could be carried. I was successful in naming Duke Ellington's signature tune (Take the A Train) which nobody else knew.

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Coconut Shrimp

We went up to dinner at 5:30 and were put at a table with two ladies (I thought they might be sisters, but later found out that they were long time friends) who were traveling together and a man named Bob who was by himself. This was formal night, and I wore an outfit of mothers that still had the tags on it so she never wore it. We both had coconut shrimp, and Alaskan king crab legs and an ice cream sundae.

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Towel animal

I think our towel animal was a flying fish.

I took the computer up to the internet cafe - there's no one up there, but I could log on perfectly well up there.

Tomorrow we are to be in Grand Turk.