Hello. It looks like I'm only getting to you guys every other day. So we finished up in Tenerife during the last post.
We returned from our tour of the World Heritage sites and wine Tasting and got on the ship around 3pm on Saturday.
The dinner on Sunday night was okay. I'll let you know if we ever get a spectacular meal. Of course you need to remember, I am doing a KETO diet so I'm not eating the breads or the starchy vegetables. I am just eating the broccoli and the meats/fish. We are drinking wine with each meal and that has been great.
After dinner Sunday night we went to the MainStage show and the performer was a "Confusionist". That's how he billed himself. Actually he was a Magician. And he was an incredible magician. He did mostly close up magic so everything he did was projected up onto a big screen.
He started with asking a volunteer to come up and get a gift box, but to just hold it and not open it or shake it. Then he had a lady come up and he did a bunch of card tricks. Towards the end of the show he asked if anyone had a one hundred dollar bill he could use. He actually got a volunteer for this. He had the man sign his name on the one hundred dollar bill. Then he did a bunch more magic and he turned the hundred dollar bill into a one dollar bill. So when the guy wanted his hundred back, the magician called up the volunteer who was holding the wrapped gift box to bring it to him.
He had the man whose hundred it was open the box. He did and there was a lemon in it. So the magician took the lemon and peeled with a knife to discover there was a hard boiled egg inside the lemon. So then he had the man smash the egg and inside there was a walnut. The magician then took a nut cracker and cracked open the walnut and inside was..............the signed one hundred dollar bill!! It was amazing.
After the show we went and listened to big band music for a short time and then we headed to our cabin. I have to say, we are taking a lot of naps on this cruise. Anyway when we got to our cabin, golf was on so Bill got to watch the Players Championship.
We got up on Monday and met Mike and Steve for breakfast before going to catch our excursion to Maspalomas Beach. It was a chilly 62 degrees with an overcast sky when we were getting ready so we had lots of warm clothes over our bathing suits. The beach we went to was all the way on the southern tip of Gran Canaria and it took us about 40 minutes to get there. What a surprise that there at the each there were clear blue Skys and a very warm 76 degrees. So the four of us headed to the beach and rented some chairs. This beach was clothing optional. There were several women with no tops (see shared photos). The guys, Mike, Steve and Bill went for a long walk and found the completely nude beach and the nude gay beach. Bill said one guys who was buck naked was doing jumping jacks near the water. Interesting! Unfortunately we only had three hours at the beach because the ship was sailing at 2:30. So we packed up all our stuff and headed back to the ship at 1:30.
That evening the entertainment was Gary Williams who sang Rat Pack hits. The seas were wild and I didn't feel good so I stayed in the cabin and Bill sent to see him twice. The seas stayed wild all night and into Tuesday morning. Tuesday is a sea day. Wednesday we will be arriving at Gibraltar.
So for some reason, we slept in on Tuesday. You'd think with all the naps we've been taking that we would have been up and having fun around the ship, but we slept in until 11. They had a ceremony for everyone who was doing an Atlantic crossing for the first time. So we got dressed and headed up to where we could get our sheets for our togas and then it was on to the ceremony. So if you see the toga party pictures I posted, that is why we are dressed in sheets. We processed to the atrium with Poseidon. There the captain of the ship came and asked Poseidon for fair seas. Poseidon said he would grant this if the captain would marry Poseidon's niece. Then Poseidon said that there were some crew that had been disrespectful of the sea and he want the captain to punish them. So they were named and they came up in twos to get their punishment. o if you look at the pictures, you'll see where they are getting lots of goop poured over their heads. When the punishment was finished, Poseidon invited us Polliwogs to come get christened. So I took or attempted to take some selfies as Poseidon poured water over my head. All goo fun. Then we drank champagne. Then we went to lunch.
So believe it or not, then I went to a Wines of the World wine tasing. So I was tasting wines from California, Portugal, France and Austria. It was only Steve and I. Bill and Mike both went to take a nap in their cabins.
So tonight the entertainment is a solo sax player who took 3rd place in Britain's got talent. I'll let you know tomorrow how good he was. Take care and go look at the pictures.
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