DAY 9: TRICK OR TREAT! -- It’s Halloween, and the ship is keeping the tradition alive
with balloons and cardboard witches everywhere, but the scariest thing we saw all day was the towel animal on our bed! I had it in mind before we left to bring my “World’s Oldest Hippy” cap and Ann’s scraggly black wig, but neither made the final cut into our luggage. So we’ll just have to show up for dinner tonight without a costume.

Today’s been another “at sea” day as we continue our generally southward course
passing El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua before pulling in to Puerto Caldera, Costa Rica early tomorrow morning. Since we’re about 70 miles off the coast we’ll be well out of sight of those countries.

So it’s a good day to do nothing without the first pang of guilt! Back home there
are always things that had to be done, people we had to call, plans to be planned, and so forth, and the idea of taking a whole day to do absolutely nothing is pretty scary. Even retired, there’s always something that needs to be done, but not here.

So we’ll sit on the deck chairs to watch the ocean move by us, reading until it’s
time to take a nap, strolling around the promenade deck, and in fact, I don’t even have to do these notes, and tomorrow will be much more interesting, so I’ll quit for now.