We have been out of touch with the world for about a week on our transatlantic cruise. After spending a day at Casablanca Morocco and the island of Maderia Portugal the ship has been going strong. We turn our clocks back an hour every day or so. We are on an MSC ship, the Orchestra. It is a newer ship that caters to the Europeans and is going to spend the winter in the Caribbean. They have a lot to learn about customer service and with us just coming from a Disney Cruise we have been disappointed in quite a lot of things… They said they want to know how they can improve and Janell finally asked that we not write our cabin number on our suggestions. We are having a great time and have met many people from many countries. The entertainment team on board is wonderful and our cabin with the balcony has been fun. I may not be able to go back to an inside cabin. We can watch the ship dock and enjoy the sunrises and sun sets.
Kay and I have been sleeping on the balcony, we have a larger than single mattress from the couch hide-a-bed that we throw out and the temperature has been about 74 degrees at night. We enjoy the water and waves right outside our door…kind of like Lake Powell. Janell slept out once when we were still in the Mediterranean and she got cold so now the balcony is ours.
Christmas….. We watched the Nativity Story movie Christmas Eve and on Christmas morning we read what we had just watched, From Isaiah to Samuel the Lamanite to Luke 1 and 2. When I said we could read it or act it out it was unanimous, read. These teenagers who would have thought? We brought a string of lights we plug into our room and have a picture we brought…. our grandchildren dressed up as Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus and a wiseman. We have a wooden 2 piece tree you slide the two flat pieces together to make a 3D tree. Christmas morning we opened the few gifts we brought/bought and had a nice morning taking our candy canes to the buffet and sipping hot chocolate through them… An Anderson tradition (I think it came from Cynthia Clark) we enjoy.
Finally we are at an internet cafe and Kay can get his BYU scores. We have had no TV signals for most of the transatlantic trip. Now we are in Guadeloupe, some French Islands with an active volcano.
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Sounds pretty cool, we are certainly jealous. I am trying to picture you sleeping on the balcony but it is tough. You will have to bring pictures.
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