More ramblings

 Well, we’re almost a month into baseball season …and the Mets are already disappointing me. Sigh.

I’ll be watching The Voice tonight.  The two artists I really liked made the finals, and I hope one of them wins.

I used to be a huge fan of a TV show, The Biggest Loser.  It was a game show where contestants had to lose weight, and the one who lost the most weight won money.  It was  very entertaining, lots of drama.  And I was watching the show at a time when I was also (unsuccessfully) trying to lose weight, so there was an element of envy involved.   I came across a video the other day that explains why the show was actually horrific and dangerous to the contestants,

I’ve done well on Wegovy. GLP-1 medications are a game changer.

The weather today?  SUMMER.  I’m not joking, it’s in the 70’s today. Nice weather to take a walk.  I’ve put my winter coats away.  

Lots of birds in my yard, and the cats are going crazy watching the show,  I’m sure Shadow would be a great hunter if I let her outside.  Duchess prefers to simply watch.

Still no robins on my lawn, though.  Doves, pigeons, sparrows, a mockingbird, a cardinal, even some grackles, but no robins.  Sigh.  

Dinner tonight will be from Panera.  I like their soups and salads.  I used to like their bread (sigh).  They’re hosting a fundraiser for Drew’s theater group— a percentage of their sales tomorrow will be contributed to the group.  The need the money — Yeoman of the Guard is expensive to produce and not nearly as popular as Pinafore  or Pirates.

We just booked a few excursions for our October cruise to Bermuda.  I always book through the cruise line.  Our experience in Panama … remember?  The ship docked in Colon, on the Atlantic coast.  We took an excursion that traversed the canal, then took a bus from Panama City (on the Pacific coast)  back to the ship in Colon.  Only … we were supposed to be back to the ship by 5:30 PM.  But at 5:30 we were just arriving in Panama City, with a 90 minute drive back to the ship.  There were 150 of us, the tour was booked through the cruise  line, so the ship waited for us.  Had we booked a private tour we would have been stranded in Panama.

Our Bermuda cruise is a bit shorter, and we’re not likely to get stranded regardless of who we book with, but … 

We’re sailing out of New Jersey, so no concern about flying in to our port. We sail on a Saturday and return on Thursday,  Two full sea says and two port days.

Anyhow, we’ll have two full days in Bermuda. The first day we will take a sightseeing tour around the island — pink sand beaches, a lighthouse, a church, shopping.  That night we’ll take a cruise into the famed Bermuda Triangle in a glass bottomed boat. The next day we will visit an aquarium and a cave.

The cave is the interesting part of the story.  80 steps down into the cave, 80 steps back up.  This is a sort of “do over” from our trip to Jamaica.  We visited the Green Grotto.  The stairs into the cave did me in — steep and wet and uneven, and no hand rails.  I stayed in the upper portion of the cave while the rest of the group went deeper.  (That was also the day I watched Drew climb Dunn’s River Falls.  I put one foot into the water, slipped in a rock and quit …) I’m in much better shape now than I was when we visited Jamaica 10 years ago, and I’m sure I can navigate 80 steps.

The cruise isn’t until October.  But next week we’re flying to Tampa to visit friends. I’m not sure what we’re doing but I’m sure it will be fun.