Friday 15th january.
No we have not been ashore. Ensenada does not get a good press from those who know so we are not rushing. We shall hope to make it on Sunday when there are no more meetings to attend.
There is little to write about of interest but from my own point of view I am enjoying just being aboard, catching up with the dining room stewards who tell me they spent three weeks here over Christmas and New Year and froze in very cold temperatures. How they manage to be so up beat and cheerful every single moment impresses me greatly. The huge grins on their faces are so warm and welcoming and they seem to remember my ('our' Nilo, Theresa and Beth!) weakness for desserts. Mandy sneaked two chocolate cream rolls for George and me at lunch and said in a whisper 'before they all disappear' as we were rather late into the dining room! It's so nice to be made a fuss of.
The seals were making a fearful noise to each other this afternoon: I think someone should study their language because they were definitely chatting. Low barks responding to higher tone barks followed by one somewhere in between. "Anyone hungry' 'Sure, wanna go fishin'?' "Hey you two can I come?' and then great plops and splashes as they head off to MacWhiskers on the other side of the sea wall. Great thesis material here........you can tell nothing much exciting happened today can't you?
We.ve just been to our Logistical Pre-port on Ensenada. It seems I was mistaken and it does have some interesting places to visit: art galleries, museums and a multitude of restaurants. We'll wait till Sunday and sample the fare then whilst Liz and Audrey are coming aboard. They have an orientation at 2.30 and we sail at 5pm so we have to be back by three. Then we'll get them into the wine and FORCE them to relax. We noticed that our information sheet from the dean's office states that we sail from Halifax at 5 pm??! Well it'll be nice to be on Canadian soil again....presumably there will have to be an almight dash to get there tomorrow? Ah the blessings of computer templates!
Newsflash for Nilo and Beth. At the pre-port, when they were using slides to tell us of the two dining room times on Sunday, up came this beautiful photo of the two of you sitting at a table grinning into the camera! I wanted to shout 'I know them!' but George restrained me....oh I just wished you were both here.
We're now sitting quietly in our cabin enjoying a glass of wine....it's 6.30 pm. Outside the wharf lights are making golden paths on the calm harbour water. We sail out to sea again at 10 am tomorrow returning at 6 pm. We are letting another cruise ship into our berth for those hours and are grateful for the smooth sea outside the harbour entrance. It is quie cool both inside and outside the ship. We have turned the heating on in the cabin because the air conditioning goes a bit wild.
Off to supper and more tomorrow.
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