LA and San Diego

 

Well, we have been useless as bloggers for a while.  We started reading books. Reading is known to have a negative effect on writing. We got out of the habit of writing the blog over the 9 straight sea days as we just didn’t feel like there was enough going on to warrant comment.   We did have a violinist as one of our evening performers.  She did two different shows during the 9 days at sea.  She is originally from Hungary and plays very energetically in a number of musical styles.  We had lunch with her and it was very enjoyable to talk a little shop.  Bernadette Niari is her name and you would probably enjoy seeing some of her promo's on the internet.  

Then we hit LA for the second time.  We docked in San Pedro which we had visited on our previous stop in LA.  There was not much there at that time.  We were a long ways from getting transportation at the pier we docked at this time.  Looked like about half a mile walk just to get to a place we could get a cab or an Uber.   We were then a long way from shopping places we needed to up our supplies and knew we would be closer to what we needed in San Diego so we just stayed on the ship.  Does that warrant a blog entry?

We left LA and went south to San Diego, our third visit to San Diego on this trip.  Is it possible the captain has a girl friend there?  We walked off the ship and made our way to a Rite Aide Pharmacy and found half the ship there restocking basic supplies.  We bought some serious snack foods, lots of individually wrapped Hershey things, Pringles, Werthers etc. with the intention of giving them to the workers on the ship, specifically our room stewards, who refused to tell us what they would want from a shore stop.  The crew has been bubbled on the ship since October, and we feel bad that they have been unable to leave the ship.  They are relaxing that bubble a bit as the entire ship has tested negative for Covid on our last two testing days but not everyone has had the chance to leave the ship yet.  We took our haul back to the ship, put it out with our friendly animals and had the animals invite our stewards to take the goodies and share if they chose.  We took off from the ship again to head to a mall which had some high end stores in the hopes of getting Jen a second swim suit so she can go beaching two days in a row and does not have to put on a wet suit on the second day.  We also had a couple other things to look for and all was found in good time.  This was important as the ship was scheduled to leave the dock at 3:00, a fairly early leave time.  Not only that, but it was Super Bowl Sunday and the ship was going to show the game on their large screen set-up in the Insignia Lounge which is where they do the nightly entertainment.  We found our way to the lounge where they served popcorn, pizza, sandwiches, and of course drinks if desired.  We watched the game but the satellite feed does not include the commercials all of you saw.  We only get the ESPN promotional commercials so we missed out on a lot of the fun.  Good game. 

We did not take any pics in LA this time.  We took a few from the boat in San Diego.  I will fill out the pictures with a few more tigger and moose pics.