What We Miss Most

Today was a much needed sea day. In a perfect world, we'd go port day, sea day, port day, sea day...... but it's not a perfect world. We've had 7 consecutive sea days due to itinerary changes but we've never had 7 consecutive port days till now. So when I say we needed a sea day, we really needed it. It was physically and mentally exhausting having so many consecutive port days. First world problem!!

So the sea day routine resumed effortlessly with breakfast, work, workout, lunch, cards, dinner, show. If I could set that to rap music, it might sound kinda catchy, like Adam Sandler's phone wallet keys. (Warning, strong language) https://youtu.be/X2uwkRrv9b8

At dinner, we sat with all LA people meaning they all embarked on the world cruise in Los Angeles and therefore still have about a month left on the cruise. We got on in Florida and now have less than 2 weeks. We stumbled on to the topic of what we miss most besides the people we love. The answers were interesting.

Here's what we miss most:

• Driving a car

• Cooking

• Working in the garden

• Alexa (she has answers for everything)

• Cutting the lawn

• Swimming in the lake

• Making crumpets

• Watching tennis

• Painting

I wish I had the forethought to ask everyone the opposite question at the beginning of the cruise, what they enjoyed getting away from most. I'm venturing a guess that gardening and cooking may have been top of the list then too. It's funny how we complain about the mundane tasks and then miss them when we're away for such a long time. I have a love/hate relationship with my lawn. I work so hard for it to grow (fertilizer, weeding, aerating, watering) and then I curse at it for having to cut it so often. It might be the first thing I do when I get home after unpacking.

Tomorrow, we're in Malaga Spain, the Costa del sol (the sun coast). We have an easy day planned just walking around. Perhaps we should have planned an excursion to Ronda, a mountaintop city in Spain’s Malaga province that’s set dramatically above a deep gorge. This gorge (El Tajo) separates the city’s circa-15th-century new town from its old town, dating to Moorish rule. Puente Nuevo, a stone bridge spanning the gorge, has a lookout offering views. New town’s Plaza de Toros, a legendary 18th-century bullring, is one of the city’s most recognizable landmarks.

But of all the places we've been, I'm most confident we'll return to Spain, and well have more time to explore when not on a cruise. Hasta manana.