mikewrit

In an email yesterday, Ramses was reassuring: "the demonstration is over , they solved the problem now its calm again."

The Norwegian Jade is scheduled to stop at Port Said and move on to Alexandria on Oct. 20 and 21. We have anxiously wathced developments for weeks, of course. So far the Egypt stop remains scheduled and we are looking forward to our night at Mena House.

We asked here about upgrade to Mena House by the pyramids and got overwhelming advice to do so for the $50 pp tallly. And so we booked it for next month.

I'm not cruisemom, but I did both when with a tour group a dozen years ago. The felluca trip was more fun at the time, but the camel ride remains a memorabe event.

Past such threads suggest there is a flat ban on box wine. Not allowed even if the corkage fee is paid. I don't understand it, but there it is. We've never had any trouble about our plug strip with surge protection, so that's something else I don't understand.

Isn't there some kind of casino-at-sea arrangement where bennies pass from one line to another?

I'm looking very seriously at a Kindle purchase before our next cruise. If I go for it, I'll load it with public domain stuff, a la Padraic. Otherwise I am usually more than content with the offerings in the ship's library. DW usually fills out the baggage weight limit with paperbacks from the Cancer Society thrift shop - we leave them in the library donation box after reading. We share addiction to Carl Hiaasen, Stuart Woods, Lee Childs and Nora Roberts in her J.D. Robb guise.