The Daily for Tuesday May 12, 2020

[richwmn]

today is Fatigue Syndrome Day and International Nurses Day

 

Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long.
        -- Howard Kandel

 

Meal suggestion for today - Tender Strips of Chicken

 

At Sea Atlantic
Nieuw Amsterdam off Capetownn destination Jakarta eta 5/26
Nieuw Statendam English Channel destination Rotterdam eta 5/12
Rotterdam destination Cape Town eta 5/18
Veendam destination Cape Town eta 5/21
Zaandam English Channel destination Ijmuiden NL eta 5/12
Zuiderdam off Rio Grande Do Norde Brazil destination Salvador Brazil eta 5/14

 

Cape Town Anchorage
Volendam

 

At Sea Pacific
Koningsdam destination Puerto Vallarta eta 5/13
Maasdam destination Labuan Malaysia eta 5/27
Noordam destination Manila 5/23
Westerdam destination Manila eta 5/23

La Paz Anchorage
Oosterdam

Manila Anchorage
Eurodam

At Sea Indian Ocean
Amsterdam destination Manila eta 5/12

 

[puppycanducruise]

Good morning.

Thank you for the Daily Report.

A big thank you to nurses.

Chicken for dinner, sounds good.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Thank you Rich for the Daily report.  It is always interesting to see where our ships are.

 

Fatigue Day -- yup -- I feel that way already and I haven't done anything yet.

 

Hooray for all the nurses and the wonderful job they are doing.

 

Chicken strips -- sound great!!

[summer slope]

Good morning.  Thank you, once again, for the daily report.  A bright spot!  Kudo's to any and all medical staff in these trying times.

[Crazy For Cats]

Thanks for the daily report.  A little more good news this morning.  I received a credit for my April excursion cancellation.  Another step in the right direction.

[cat shepard]

Thank you for today’s Daily, Rich! Good morning to my CC Sisters & fellow Daily-ites! Another gorgeous day here. Stay well everyone!

 

Chicken it is. Will need to find some new way to prepare them.

 

To all the nurses of the world - thank you.

[ger_77]

Thanks for the Daily!   I salute all the nurses on International Nurses Day; I know many in various stages of the nursing profession, and they all deserve our thanks for what they do every day.

 

Your meal suggestion sounds great, although if I had DH cook them, they'd be tough strips of chicken.   I'll do the cooking, so they'll pair nicely (a-g-a-i-n) with the seemingly never-ending Sunny Summertime Pasta Salad.   And wine.

 

Smooth Sailing!  🙂🙂🙂

Gerry 

[rafinmd]

Thank you for the report.  Nieuw Amsterdam is actually docked in Cape Town with a bunker barge alongside. 

At the moment EVERY day should be National (or International) Nurses day.  For me it will be my usual Panera takeout (CHICKEN noodle soup for lunch but Mac&Cheese for dinner).   Amazing how much fatigue we feel for as little as we are doing.

 

Roy

[Himself]

Thanks for the Daily. The Amsterdam should join the crowd of ships outside Manilla waiting to unload many of their Filipino crew.  It is lie the Army--hurry up and wait.

[portofrome]

Thank you for the Daily Report.

[Dismomx5]

Thank you for the report, Rich. I think chicken strips would be a great idea for tonight! Now to think about the sides, since DH won't eat veggies-except the starchy ones-potatoes, corn-and definitely not anything that is green. That is one thing I am missing from the cruises. When cruising, he tries everything on the menu except grilled asparagus and beans, which I delightedly solve his problem. 🙂 

[DeeniEncinitas]

3 hours ago, richwmn said:

today is Fatigue Syndrome Day and International Nurses Day

 

Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long.
        -- Howard Kandel

 

Meal suggestion for today - Tender Strips of Chicken

 

At Sea Atlantic
Nieuw Amsterdam off Capetownn destination Jakarta eta 5/26
Nieuw Statendam English Channel destination Rotterdam eta 5/12
Rotterdam destination Cape Town eta 5/18
Veendam destination Cape Town eta 5/21
Zaandam English Channel destination Ijmuiden NL eta 5/12
Zuiderdam off Rio Grande Do Norde Brazil destination Salvador Brazil eta 5/14

 

Cape Town Anchorage
Volendam

 

At Sea Pacific
Koningsdam destination Puerto Vallarta eta 5/13
Maasdam destination Labuan Malaysia eta 5/27
Noordam destination Manila 5/23
Westerdam destination Manila eta 5/23

La Paz Anchorage
Oosterdam

Manila Anchorage
Eurodam

At Sea Indian Ocean
Amsterdam destination Manila eta 5/12

 

Good morning Rich and to my sisters Cat and Joy as well as to everyone who comes to The Daily!!
Rich your WOW hit home!! Made me go way back to being in dental school  and how hard it was to get through on so little.

With a smile on my face it was the best of times not knowing Anything better!

International Nurse’s Day!! Hats off to all those brave men and women who put their lives on the line daily ! STAY STRONG ❤️
Fatigue Syndrome Day hope all those blogs of negativity on our board can become a thing in the past!!!!

We had a Thanksgiving type dinner yesterday so chicken strips will be Maybe 

Friday Mexican style!!!

🌺EVERYONE HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!

Denise😊

[kazu]

Thanks for the fleet report, Rich 🙂 

 

It should be National Nurses Day every day ❤️ 

 

We owe all our health care workers a lot in these tumultuous times while they work under the most difficult and tiring of circumstances.

 

[Vict0riann]

Good morning, and thank you for the report, Rich!  

 

We have a flag at the entrance to our complex thanking the medical personnel who are looking after us in this pandemic.

 

 

And at 7 every evening we all (or a lot of us) go outside and make a lot of noise!

[wandb]

2 hours ago, rafinmd said:

  Amazing how much fatigue we feel for as little as we are doing.

 

Roy

 

This is SO TRUE!!   We are still hoping our AQSC cruise (on the Ohio and Cumberland Rivers) on Sept 6 will not get cancelled. I decided that if I don’t DO something about it I will be too tired to even walk by then!!  So I started walking 1 mile every morning up and down my driveway. Last month, I did 2 miles each day. On Monday I started 3 miles!  Talk about fatigue!! 😅  But now at least I have a reason why I’m tired. Because I’m in that “elderly” group, I can’t go out to the gym or track, but it is amazing how much I’m enjoying the flowers along my own driveway. 

I think I had allowed “shelter in place” to become “sit in place”!  (I know that many of you are not physically able to go out for a walk. Just getting outside and sitting in the sun for a bit will probably make that fatigue vanish.)

 

I am really enjoying this uplifting thread and reading about all the places many of you are planning to visit. 

[wandb]

Oops!  This thread is always uplifting, but I was also referring to the uplifting thread about booking future cruises!

[VMax1700]

If you are very quick you will see Nieuw Statendam on this website

https://webcam-hoekvanholland.nl/pages/cameras/berghaven.php

[Vict0riann]

And there she is!  Thanks.🙂

 

[VMax1700]

[Himself]

12 minutes ago, VMax1700 said:

If you are very quick you will see Nieuw Statendam on this website

https://webcam-hoekvanholland.nl/pages/cameras/berghaven.php

I was not quick enough,  I missed it.

[Vict0riann]

Doesn't she look very stately!

[cruzingnut]

The Amsterdam actually got into Manila harbor last night.  The dining room manager posted a video of all the ships surrounding her.  Definitely very strange seeing all those cruise ships like that. 

 

Linda R.

[Gail & Marty sailing away]

Thanks for the info ..

[rafinmd]

My nomination for Quote of the Day:  "We've always believed that music has the power to bring us closer together and we need that now more than ever".  Stolen from this week's edition of HAL's Lincon Center Living Room.

 

..

Roy

[Vict0riann]

We enjoyed that email from HAL, too.  We had Sheng-Ching on one of our cruises, I think it was Koningsdam... last year, and really enjoyed the whole group.