Day 6 of our Carnival Glory Experience



Tuesday, January 30

As we are enjoying our breakfast like a King, we are casually docking into Isla Roatan.  We are sitting at a huge window and are enjoying the view.

I don't know anything about Honduras other than they are famous for pirates and I can understand why.  Honduras is a series of small islands that is essentially mountainous with lots of vegetation.  It makes for perfect lookouts and perfect hideouts.  It doesn't seem to have any usable natural resources so it seems like piracy is the natural thing for the ancient Hondurans.  I share this observation with my table mates at breakfast.  They all think this is a brilliant observation.  I can't believe how smart I am on the cruise.

With our view, we can see a spot where boats go to die.  They are salvaging everything they can down to the metal frames.  It is not a positive visual but it is also interesting and sad.

We finish our breakfast and my sweetie and I decide we are going to walk to Honduras.  The humidity is practically unbearable and we struggle to find souvenirs to buy.  We learn that the people of Honduras are very religious and very superstitious and poor.   After buying a souvenir, we leave the extreme humidity and go back to the paradise of our ship.

I opt to read in the sun and my sweetie goes to trivia.  He finds me after and shows me the medal he won.  It turns out he and someone else tied for first so they had a choice of the piece of ship or the medal.  He chose the medal.  The crowd asked him why and he responded he had already had a piece of ship.  What a rock star !

The sun is a little hot so I join him in the lobby for country music trivia.  We don't do well but we are sitting with a very wise couple.  She is crocheting for her great-grandchildren and before I know it, I have shared my whole life story with her and her husband and they have incredible wisdom to offer.  I feel so blessed to have met them.

We continue chatting with this couple until it is time to play charades.  It is one side of the lobby vs the other.  My friend Terry appears and is going to play on our team.  Since we know each other well (from our one meal together) we basically take over our team.  Terry is excellent at acting out charades and I am excellent at guessing and giving impossible charades to the other team.  We are solidly in the lead and then the host Ginger decides that we are going to have a tie-breaker charade.  The man who we have been chatting with protests.  Terry asks me to act out the charades but I am confident we can't win unless she acts. The other team comes up with a phrase that is not even a phrase.  We get close but we can not get it because none of us have even heard of the charade.

But, the real winner here is me.  I know have a relationship with Adam and Terry; I have a relationship with Adam; and now I have a relationship with Terry.  Three relationships out of two people.

We see Adam and Terry later on and Adam tells me how much pressure was under with the charades and wishes that I would have acted out the last charade. I tell him Terry was a rockstar and we were cheated anyway as there was no tiebreaker necessary.

We continue to visit with the wise couple.  The woman crocheting gives amazing life lessons.  I can't believe my fortune in meeting her.  It is time for genius trivia.  Another couple joins us and so that means 6 on our team.  We work together really well on the 32 questions, getting 26 correct which according to the legend means that we are geniuses.  A team of 4 girls in their early 20s gets a perfect score.  It smells funny.  In order to get it all correct, they would have to be very well read and have to have lived for more decades than they have.  Ginger announces that they are the first team to get all 32 correct.  I find the test online a couple of hours later and am convinced they cheated.  After we spend a few minutes upset over our two losses (that likely weren't losses), we start laughing again.

We go dress for dinner and stumble on sports trivia in the sports bar at 5:30 pm.  We can't believe we have missed this for a few days.  And, how lucky are we that my Leo is conducting the trivia.  The trivia is very difficult, but we enjoy the whole experience.

At supper, we are sitting with a couple from Pittsburgh and a couple from Sarnia.  I don't know how we get through our meal without getting kicked out for laughing so hard.  Everything anyone says is funny and we all are laughing loudly.  The guy from Pittsburgh says something so funny that I am laughing so hard that I start crying.  It was one of the moments that you had to be there because I've told other people what he said and they just don't get it.

The wait staff have another choreographed dance for us to Happy by Pharrell Williams.  They all dance spectacularly but I am drawn to a woman who looks like she is past her twenties.  She gets up on a serving table to dance.  The serving table has a radius of about 24 inches and I am amazing at how enthusiastic she is.  She never looks down and her happiness radiates throughout the entire room.

We decide to spend some time in the casino.  The casino is the only place where you can smoke on board, I think.  Regardless, it is like spending time in an ashtray.  I cough and cough and we don't spend much time there.  We are able to catch the last of the Love and Marriage show and one of the couples we have met playing trivia are in the final round.

We go up to the top deck to watch the ocean in the dark.  We are still full but decide to get a pizza to take back to our room.

Watching Headline News, eating pizza with lemonade and reading seems like an extraordinary experience.   Also, we now have a medal to look at in addition to our trophy.

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