Sunday, February 17
We were
quite tired after our four ports and four excursions in four days so we slept in
and didn’t get out and about until after 10:00.
When our room stewards came to clean our room, we went to the Neptune
Lounge and looked at some of our pictures.
By the time we finished, it was time for lunch and we were off to the
Lido.
Today was
the final round and finals of the slot tournament so after lunch we headed off
to that. As expected, Val had been
bumped off the leader board so we both tried our luck to qualify, but the
competition was too tough and neither of us qualified. We didn’t bother to stick around for the
finals and returned to our room to relax for a bit.
There was a
presentation on our next two ports in the showroom so just before 3:00 we
headed off to that. It turned out that
the port guide was sick so the cruise director gave an abbreviated talk for
tomorrow’s port only. We had arranged to
meet the couple we had met in Aruba at 4:00 today so that was next on our
agenda.
We had met
Tony and Evelyn in Aruba when Tony and I noticed we were both using Nikon
cameras. We had been looking for someone
to join us on the photo tour Val had booked in Manaus, Brazil and they were
interested so we were meeting today to discuss the details. Tony and Evelyn are both very nice and we
enjoyed talking to them. Tony was born
in St. Vincent so our port stop there was a homecoming for him and he and Evelyn had been
met by some of his relatives who had wined and dined them while we were
there. Tony had left St. Vincent to
attend school in Montreal where he met Evelyn and ended up marrying her and not
returning to St. Vincent. We spent
almost an hour talking to them and they decided they would like to join us for
the tour. We were glad not only to have
another couple for the tour, but a couple we really liked.
By the time
we finished, it was late afternoon, so we returned to our room, relaxed a bit and
then got ready for dinner. We did well
tonight at trivia, but not well enough to win; we have not been a winner yet on
the cruise. After dinner it was another
quick night in the casino and we decided to call it a night.
Tomorrow we
are visiting Devil’s Island, but won’t arrive until noon so we don’t have to
get up early.
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