Tuesday At Sea

Tuesday was a full day at sea. We sunbathed on deck then in the afternoon went to the Newlywed Game show which was a riot. We also went to play Bingo but the prices were steep… $10/card and they were only going to play one game of straight bingo so the chances of winning were not that great considering the amount of people playing. Instead I opted to purchase 10 scratch and win tickets for $10. I didn’t win anything on any of them but there was to be a second chance drawing afterward and you had to write your name and room number on the back of each card. I had 10 cards in the box and I would say there were probably less than 50 cards in the box at drawing time so I felt lucky! Sure enough, one of my cards was pulled and I went to the stage to accept my prize… a bottle of champagne along with some coupons for the spa and a Carnival winners medal. Whoo hoo! Jamie still felt bad all morning but as the day went on she started to feel better. Not long before dinner time I started getting sick. We had been on rough water, rocking like crazy for 24 hours by the time it hit me. It was formal night and I had really been looking forward to getting dressed up. Jamie had been dreading it. The closer it got to dinner time the worse I felt. We got to the table and it was the first night we met our table mates. Two women who were a mother and daughter and couple more women who I think were sisters. All were from Oklahoma but the daughter lived in Arkansas. We had a great dinner but I was feeling worse and worse by the minute. I couldn’t even eat the food I had ordered. One of our waitstaff suggested I have an apple and some ginger ale and she brought the ginger ale for me to sip on. The sweet mother and daughter told us they were wearing patches to prevent motion sickness and seeing how bad I was feeling and hearing about how bad Jamie felt they offered us two of their patches. Their doctors had given them a prescription and each had 4 patches and they only needed one each for the cruise so they offered one to each of us. There were life-savers! I went directly back to our cabin and put my pj’s on and Jamie went with the women to their room to get the 2 patches. Jamie placed mine behind my ear for me as I was too sick to even do it myself. After a couple of hours I thought I was feeling better so decided to go see one of the shows. Jamie wanted to stay in the room and watch something on TV so I went alone. The show was OK, but I was still feeling poorly and the stage had a part that rotated and the dancers were also running and turning around as it rotated… just what I needed… more motion!!! I left at the first opportunity and went on to bed.

the champagne, medal and coupons I won

my Carnival medal

Jamie and Linda on formal night (I was so sick when this photo was taken)

the daughter and mother who saved our trip by giving us the patches

Naughty Towels

OK, now for the naughty towels. I kid you not, this is the view we saw when we walked into the room on the last 2 nights. We both nearly fell over in fits of laughter when we saw the first one here. You will have to use your own imagination to figure out what it looks like. It took us quite a while to figure out what it was supposed to be and it only looked like a cobra once we bent the head forward and looked at it from the side. It was standing straight up like this when we entered the room. I don't know when I have laughed harder. This one will show up again... LOL. The second one here was the seal/walrus on the last night. Jamie immediately thought it looked like the female counter part to the other one. Again we laughed until our sides hurt. So here they are for you to be the judge. What do they look like to you???

Towels

It seems to be a standard that cruise ships fold towels into animal shapes and place on your bed each night. They always have a towel folding class on board (I've never been to one) and sell books on how to fold them into various shapes. Below are the animals we found each night when we returned to our room. I will post another showing a couple of naughty looking towels.

Monday night this dog was wearing Jamie's sunglasses.

Tuesday night we found the elephant

Wednesday night this cute bunny was stretched out relaxing on my bed

Thursday night was the cobra, although it took us a while to figure out what it was as you will see in my next post

Friday night the seal was waiting for us

We're Back From the Cruise

Jamie and I are back in Austin after our cruise to the Mexican Riviera. We had a fun time in spite of motion sickness the first couple of days. Some of you I have emailed so parts of my blogs will be repeats but will have more details. I will be trying to post something each day now that I have internet access and will also post photos for you to enjoy.

Monday
We took the 4 hour drive from Austin to Galveston to board the cruise ship. We got all checked in and set off on the cruise. After the required life safety drill we were off to change our dinner time. There were 4 time slots offered and they had given us the 8:30 slot which was too late for us so had it changed to the 6:15 time. Jamie started feeling a little queasy as the night progressed but I was feeling fine. Jamie ended up buying some Bonine for her nausea but that didn’t seem to help either. We went to one show which was a not so funny comedian but afterward Jamie decided she needed to go to the infirmary because her nausea was getting worse. We had both bought seabands bracelets to wear to avoid getting motion sickness but they didn’t work for either of us. Instead of seeing the doctor she opted to pick up some free packets of pills they offered at the clinic… which turned out to be the same as the Bonine pills she had just purchased earlier. We went to bed around 9:00 and slept until 9:00 the next morning. Below is a photo of our ship.