This will require a bit of explanation. I don’t usually wear a watch, but on cruise ships, which have all sorts of time zone changes and which often don’t match the actual time zone of the geographic location, one can get into trouble using a phone or e-device to know the time. So that’s why I need a watch onboard.
Except I was always forgetting to pull the stem out once home...and the next time I went to get the watch, it needed batteries or ran out of juice halfway through the cruise. A couple of cruises ago my friend Jackie bought a watch onboard that is light powered. Sun, light bulb, anything. I figure that’s the sort of watch I need. Also, the first day or so onboard the shops have an extra 10% discount on purchases, plus the 10% we get for being frequent cruisers, so with those sorts of incentives, plus a comparison of costs on Amazon, I had decided that my souvenir on this cruise would be a cruise watch if the price was sort of competitive.
Long story short, Andrei from Romania was happy to make his first sale of the cruise, and I have my souvenir. Andrei adjusted the watch for me, and when I looked more closely at at this morning , I noticed the day/date function was in French, telling me today is Lundi. Or maybe it is Spanish or Italian, because all it really says is “LUN”.
The rest of the day was spent meeting the Cruise Critic group, learning a bit about our first port of call, Phuket, Thailand (which I shall try and share with you tomorrow), exploring the ship and catching up on lost sleep.
Watch shopping -- hooray!! I love mine and what was even greater, I used OBC to pay for it!! Gotta love a deal. Can't wait to see the pics and narrative from Thailand.
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