Sleeping again

There’s so much to tell but not time to write….. so some of the reports may be delayed. We have been on board ship for all of 2 days but it feels like a year already.  We have been through several phases – first there was amazement at the size of it all and then confusion and frustration – learning where is what and how it all works. There were various crises – one related to Lilly’s visa for Morocco (more of that in a separate item) and one related to the shore excursions.  But things are fine now – one of the crew members told me that the first days are often a bit chaotic.

 

Albert and Lilly sailed fine through all this – they are made of tougher material than us younger folks. My way of coping is to learn and I was up early in the morning learning the ship and figuring things out for myself. I have no complaints against the cruise company – in fact I think , in general, they are well organized but for someone who’s never been on a cruise before (that’s all of us) it’s rather confusing at first.

 

In a separate item, I’ll try and review the cruise as clearly and objectively as possible, and I welcome your comments and questions.  

 

There was a lot for me to learn and sort out in the first day and a half and the responsibility of our group’s happiness weighed heavy on my shoulders. I would wake very early in the morning after very few hours of sleep, and I was running around the whole day.  But today things are much calmer and I can recover a bit – I was already sleeping very badly before we left Israel worrying that everything with Albert, Lilly and the girls would work out alright.