at Sea
Today we had customs forms to fill out for our visit to Guam. I’m guessing that those who have checked the box “items to declare” will have their forms set aside for further aggravation. Do they think that customs officials are going to check every room on the ship? It’s amazing to me that the country that hassles us the most is the US government. We are living on a ship for 4 months. Does the government think we are going to bring alcohol and tobacco in to Guam? For what reason would we be doing that?
In addition to this form from Guam, there was also a yellow fever questionnaire. Luckily we have the vaccine and brought the proof with us.
We have two excursions that will take us off the ship overnight. One in China and one in Seychelles. There is a form for that. The ship is responsible for giving information about guests spending the night to immigration officials.
Three of us at team trivia today. The questions continually get more and more difficult. A metal that remains liquid at standard temperature and pressure? Team with the most Super Bowl appearances? Celebrity who cloned their dog three times? Number of eyes a bee has? First president to live in the white house? Brightest star in the evening sky? First video game that Mario appeared in? The animal that has the most human like fingerprints? It’s not a gorilla, chimp or orangutan.
How did you do? That’s how well we did.
I talked to the morning chef about paczcki’s. He never heard of them. He said he would talk to the main chef.
We spoke with Oscar (nice haircut!) again at dinner about the pazcki. He has no idea what we are talking about but it is fun anyway. Oscar is one of several that talk to us everyday to ask how their staff is doing. How was dinner? Could anything be better? How was the service? Can I bring you something else? It’s tough being treated like this.
We went to play cards right after dinner. Wind was bad up on the back of the lido. We used all kinds of items to weight the cards down. My win tonight. Am I up by one? Don’t remember.
I listened to a rather obnoxious passenger talk about how he gambles and takes any money he wins in the casino and donates to a non-profit that he runs. He then takes a tax write off. It sounded like the money ended up in his pocket when it was all over. The IRS is full of agents that are experts at catching tax cheats . The people that created the IRS are some of the most notorious cheats. Maybe that is just Russian disinformation. I’ll send a note to the big guy.…