Sunrise was at 5:29a this morning:
I’m going to miss taking the sunrise photos after we get home. Sunrise is basically over our neighbor’s house. I guess I could go to the shore, but even then the sunrise would be over Seattle, not over the horizon. So I’m thinking about where I might be able to be on our boat where sunrise would be over the horizon. Not sure if that’s entirely possible on Puget Sound, since you always have shoreline in view on the east, but maybe somewhere a little north of the San Juans. Then again, when we’re out on the boat, I’m usually not up at dawn. And we’re usually in at a dock overnight rather than out at sea. I guess we’ll just have to go on another cruise?
Today is the last of the warmest days of the cruise. High of 77 today, high of 68 tomorrow, Dubrovnik is forecast for a high of 70, Koper is forecast for a high of 73 and Venice is forecast for a high of 71 on Monday and 74 on Tuesday. So unusually warm forecast for this region, which is nice. We have had incredible weather on this cruise. Then the forecast for Seattle when we return on Tuesday is a high of 60. I guess we successfully managed to skip winter.
I’ve already labeled the last 5 blog entries to take me up though Venice. Yes, the blog will say Day 109 for Venice, even though the cruise is technically a 107 day cruise. That’s due to both the inclusive counting (counting both the first and last day of the cruise—so for a 7-day cruise that goes from a Sunday to a Sunday, it would end up being 8 blog entries if you did one each day) and the “lost day” along the way (which we eventually gained back partially due to clock changes).
Today is our last Cruise Critic meeting, we will be discussing the upcoming ports of Dubrovnik, Koper and Venice.
One other thing that Maha mentioned yesterday that I thought was interesting: she said that the traffic lights in Egypt are just for decoration. One time she was in an accident at a traffic light. The light was red, so she was stopped and someone rammed into the back of her car. The guy got out and started yelling at her, saying it was her fault, that she should have continued through the intersection and he didn’t expect her to come to a full stop.
The pyramids are built out of limestone, much of it quarried very close to the pyramids in Giza. In fact, the reason the Sphinx is down so low is that it was actually chiseled in place from the limestone. It was never moved, just carved out of the limestone. The limestone blocks of the pyramids are anywhere from 2½ tons to 15 tons. There is no mortar used to join the blocks together. No one knows exactly how they built the pyramids, although the best guess is that they used sand or earthen ramps, which were eventually moved away after the construction was completed. We do know that it took over 100,000 men to build them and at least 20 years. The Great Pyramid of Cheops (Khofu) is the last surviving member of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Krissie is doing her first ever art show tomorrow afternoon. She invited a few friends to see her 9 oil paintings, 3 acrylic paintings (one of which is mixed with makeup highlighter, really, not kidding) and 3 watercolors. They are wonderfully done, especially when you consider she has had no art lessons, has not painted since grade school and she has no discards—every painting she did is on display. We are going to have wine and cheese as well.
I’ve been busy working on the Fantastic Fifty Fotos presentation I will be doing tomorrow morning in the Casino Lounge. 13 photographers, 600+ photos to organize into a presentation. Still lots of work left to complete it by tomorrow morning. Yikes.
The show tonight was the Pacific Princess Singers and Dancers in “Piano Man”:
Tomorrow is sea day #2 of 2 on our way to Dubrovnik, Croatia.
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