Male’, Maldives
Happy Easter!
Easter Sunday was mentioned during announcements of the Pride meetup and Ramadan. I guess I feel a little better.
There was an Easter egg hunt on the Lido. There are only 3 children aboard. It wasn’t for them.
Day two in Maldives. The view from the ship is quite spectacular. We decided we would go back over to Male’ and do a complete circle around the island. Doing a quick mathematical equation, we calculated it to be around 4 miles.
It is still blazing hot here. I’m not sure why there are so many motorbikes here. Traveling on this island is easier to do by walking. The farthest distance you can travel on the island is only 1.5 miles. It is possible to go over the bridge that China built and go to the airport. I can’t believe that all of these people are doing that.
Lots of traffic again. I don’t understand where all of these people are going on such a tiny island.
The walk took about 90 minutes to complete. We were drenched in sweat and headed back to the ship.
Most of the folks we talked to that did an excursion, did the snorkeling. After many snorkel excursions last year and our snorkel trip on the great barrier reef, we passed. We did here about some that went to a resort for the day. I’ll never understand that.
We spoke with Oscar at dinner. He said from his experience, the Islamic countries have a much later starting time to their day. Things don’t open until mid afternoon and stay open until mid-night.
Team trivia was all about Easter. What color were the first dyed Easter eggs? What did the church decided could not eat the week before Easter? What critter delivers Easter goodies in Westphalia, Germany? Where is the Easter egg museum? Again, we had many questions where we couldn’t even make up an answer.
The evening entertainment was vocalist Jacques Lagesse. Jacques sang classic ballads along with canned recordings. Terri flashed me a two before her nap this time. He started with Sinatra. I thought he really nailed the style of “That’s Life”. As time went on, I enjoyed the show less and less. All of us have electronic devices where we can listen to anything we want at any time. What will bring people here? I like to hear something about the artist. I like a new rendition instead of a direct cover that someone else did. Maybe something about the performer. I didn’t hear any of these. I saw many people walking out. Not a very polite thing to do in a 45 minute show. Jacques turned his back to the audience many times as if he was conducting the band. It wasn’t very effective since no band existed.
He definitely can sing. The show wasn’t something I would return to. I gave the show a 4.…