Not quite to Istanbul!

November 1, 2009 - Sunday 10:00 am
We stayed for the second show last night after Smokey Joe’s Café as it was the crew doing skits, singing and dancing. It was actually a very good show. In between shows, I ran out to the photo shop to be there for a raffle drawing. We had bought one of the pictures taken on the cruise and that entitled us to be in the drawing. Surely, by this point, you know that I won or I wouldn’t have droned on and on about it! The first prize was 5 8 x 10 photos worth $100.00 . Actually, I didn’t have any picture that I wanted 5 copies of and certainly didn’t have 5 pictures total that I wanted (Mike and I can’t figure out why all the photos of us make us look old and fat…… defective equipment, no doubt!) I finally settled on 5 more copies of the one picture that we did get and now all the kids can have one, whether they want it or not!
The weather has turned distinctively bad! The wind is terrific and the ship tossed all night long and continues to do so. We will be docking in Istanbul in about 2 hours and I sure hope it is not as cold and windy at that point. We will definitely freeze to death today. We knew we risked bad weather here and we will enjoy this day come rain, sleet, snow or earthquakes!
Bingo time now so I’m going to play the free card they gave us and then go get ready to dock in Istanbul. More later, maybe……….after the tour.