Greek Cruise Day 6...

Day 6 – Monday

Got up at usual time (7am) for breakfast with Ann… Went back to the cabin and relaxed a bit before a meeting with Phil C around 10:30 or so… after a good conversation and meeting with Phil, Ann and I met and she wanted to go to the beach at Crete, which was only a half mile or so from the dock… Have to mention that this was the first day that we actually docked and walked off of the ship instead of boarding a tender every time to get to shore… and apparently from now on we will be docked every day… :)

So we went to the beach a bit before noon, and Ann promptly started to get some sun, and unfortunately since I forgot my earphones, I pretty much was relegated to watching the activities at the beach… Now you would think that in Europe, from what you have heard it would be a good thing to have to sit for an hour or so on a beach in Crete… Nah, nada, not at all… First of all, there are way too many people over here that are way too comfortable with their bodies, and should be wearing nothing less than tents at the beach… Guys my size with Speedos, women my size with bikinis (or whatever you would call them…) and kids running around naked all over the place… in fact, it seems that clothing for the kids at a beach in Greece are taken off to get in the water, and only put back on to sit in the chairs, which isn’t very often… That didn’t bother me that much, but the women changing right on the beach was pretty disturbing… mostly because the average size of those changing on the beach was at least twice the acceptable size of a normal female… and watching them take off their top in full view of everyone and stretch out a bikini top to the max to get it on just ain’t cool… Fortunately, there was one normal girl that decided to tan without her top nearby that almost made up for the rest of the atrocities that the other females committed, but the bad impression was pretty much burnt into my brain forever… And it seems that the good looking females, for whatever reason, actually show modesty… which really sucked… And I won’t go into the guys… even Ann was making fun of them… It’s hard for me to imagine that their significant others don’t point out that they look like hell, but I guess love really is blind, at least in parts of Europe.

After bugging Ann after about an hour of torture on the beach, I finally convinced her to get off the beach and go for a walk… But it was pretty hot, and after another half hour or so I guess I was whining about the length of time that it takes to look at (insert any particular product here) especially when you really have no interest in buying anything… So after a bit I gave her a handful of Euros and told her to shop and I went back to the ship… Which actually made us both happier (she told me she had more fun without me and she could really shop, whatever that means…) and I got to watch the last episode of Boardwalk Empire that they had on video… And the first 15 minutes or so of a handful of other movies (all the classic guy movies that I always get picked at when I watch them at home…) I went and got another burger for lunch, and Ann got back later in the afternoon.

After a short nap (found that I needed one of these almost every day to keep going…) we got ready for dinner with Bob and Sheila and Steve and Tina at Prime 7, the restaurant that is sort of a steakhouse type… As usual, great conversation, and a great meal… I had lobster and steak and it was very, very good… Surprisingly good from what I expected for a cruise ship… One thing you don’t have to worry about on the Regent line is the food… Nothing has been short of great so far… from the breakfast in the morning to burgers to dinner at night, everything is wonderful and the selection is amazing…

We left dinner (on time this night…) to get to the Broadway show in the theater… A very nice 45 minute show with a good selection of Broadway tunes and once again better than I expected for a cruise ship… We were pretty tired this night, so we passed on the karaoke (which was good in that it apparently went until late in the morning, and bad in that we missed Mike doing My Way and Hoban doing whatever he did…) and just went back to get a good night’s sleep for the next day, which was another hike up a hill in the heat… (Note to self… next time don’t let your wife pick all of the activities, especially when she thinks that since she isn’t working out this trip and to get rid of the guilt you pick excursions that could be a good substitute…)