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| Goodbye view! We’ll always remember or we can always check here to be reminded of how much we’ve enjoyed this resort and beach. |
After a night of fitful sleep, I awoke at 4:44, wide awake, thoughts running through my mind. “When does the “motor” stop running?” I asked myself, longing to go back to sleep.
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| The gentle sound of the sea at night has been soothing. |
Picking up my smartphone-with-no-contract from under my pillow while putting on my spectacles-for-old-age on my eyes, I continued reading the Kindle app where I left off last night. Mindless reading. Not necessarily worthy of mention.
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| This is the beach we walked almost every day in Belize. We’ll miss this. |
Fortunately, it was mindless enough that I dozed off to sleep for yet another hour, dreaming about what I had read. Oh, yes, clutter my mind with mindless drivel so I don’t go there…my own worrisome thoughts as we near the end of our time in Belize.
As I lay there the second time, contemplating arising, a refreshing thought hit my brain. No worrisome thoughts are necessary! I’m a girl (albeit an old girl) that will be cruising for the next two-plus months (except for the 13 nights in Dubai and two separate hotel nights in Barcelona between cruises) and I’ll be looking forward to the following:
1. No bed to make
2. No meals to cook or grocery shopping
3. No dishes to wash
4. No laundry (perhaps a little hand washing)
5. No cleaning (only tidying. Tom picks up after himself)
6. At least one fun dress-up night a week
7. The ocean around us with breathtaking photo ops
8. Socializing if we choose, or not
9. Three pools at which to lounge
10. Movie theatres inside and outdoors (we love movies)
11. Live entertainment if we so choose
12. Educational seminars
13. Ports to visit
14. Tom can drink and I don’t have to drive home
15. Easy access to a fully-equipped fitness center
These are the key points that appeal to me. For Tom, he’s enjoys all the above, except for the health club. These points drove my mind to a place of imagination. Imagine, we were living somewhere and were preparing to go on six cruises, almost back to back. I’d be jumping up and down with excitement. Tom would be doing his usual smile, enthusiasm tempered with no apparent jumping up and down.
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| Caribbean Sea, thanks for sharing with us! |
Can I let go of all of the things that can go wrong in the six hours from leaving here Tuesday morning at 8:00 am until we’re aboard the ship by approximately 2:00 PM? Only six hours, I keep reminding myself. Only six hours.
“Get a grip!” I tell myself, “Get a grip!”