I should have had more faith. By noon the sun was out to stay, and, in fact, forced me into the water on a couple of occasions, just to cool off. While our intention had initially been to just go over for the BBQ lunch, we ended up staying until nearly 3pm. It turned out to be a really nice beach day.
I carted over a second thick hard cover book that I'd checked out yesterday from the library on the ship. Looking at me holding this book up to block the sun's bright rays while I read, G observed that, while we did fine with just one iPhone between us this cruise, he knew I was missing my audiobooks and ebooks. And he's right...I am. But less than 24 hours now, and I'll be back to normal.
We went to Skywalkers at 5pm for the last pre-dinner drinks and hors doerves for this cruise. We'd missed just two evenings up recently, but friends Janet and Bob caught up with us on the beach today and we promised we'd make it tonight. After dinner tonight, Sutti again provided me a beloved alternative to the Baked Alaska...a bowl of toasted meringue.
Life is good.
G wanted to see comedian Carl Banks' show at 7:15pm in the Princess Theater. We recognized him from his bit part on Seinfeld, and were hopeful, but...once again that's 30 minutes of my life I won't get back.
Sol Provider started playing in Club Fusion at 8:30pm, and we listened to them for awhile before getting popcorn and fuzzy water and calling it a day. Tomorrow will be very busy for us, as we either walk the 4.5 miles to the AT&T store at the Galleria Mall, or take a bus, then get ourselves back to the dentist's office by 11:30am to finish up this root canal, then swing into Publix on the way back to the ship to buy still more hand soap and pick up a prescription that, hopefully, the Fort Lauderdale port agent dropped off there on Monday.
The good news is that I'm learning so much about how all this medical stuff works during our winter at sea. The bad news is that it's knowledge I could have happily lived without.