Best Life

 After a “sleep-in” (8am), we settled into our “spot”.  Though it was mostly in the sun, Paul calculated shade would be in our near future.  My goal for the morning: catch up on organizing the hundreds of pictures I took on each island and type my thoughts and activities for each day.  Three days of island hopping was fun and crazy and exhausting.  Today – chill! Cards (Paul won every hand), reading (on my last book!) and of course, people watching.   Paul played trivia and came in 14 out of 43!    Fish tacos for lunch.   Yes, again!   Soooo yummy! I Nyoman, from the Red Frog bar, took care of all day with plenty of ice and ice water.   Oh, and he separated our beer into his and hers! Foosball – Paul won every game!   (He is on a roll today!) And because we had not walked in the morning, we took a stroll around the ship.   The stairwells – empty.   The corridors – empty.   The casino – full.   ...

  This morning, we had no problems being awake in plenty of time to go ashore.   We had prebooked an excursion through Viator back in August.   The boat docked early and we thought to go ashore early and do a bit of shopping.   When it came time to find our tour – our headaches started.   No specific location was listed on our paperwork.   We asked at a few kiosks with no luck. No one recognized the name of our tour operator.   After walking in circles (1.7 miles worth), a kindly security person and a tour operator helped us by calling the number on our pass.   Oddly enough the tour operator helping us was to be our guide.   Unbeknownst to us, Viator took our booking, gave it to another party who then forwarded It to Casper Tours.   Since we have no internet on the ship, we never received the updated information.   Why the operator did not have our information, who knows.   But the universe had us find each other.   Unfo...