Come quickly!!

The day dawned, or maybe it didn't.  Our cave remained dark as pitch, so we never knew if it was day or night, or had any inkling of the time. Certainly we slept in, and we had coffee delivered to our room................room service is a fantastic thing!!! We thoroughly enjoyed lounging and not having to pack up Stormy.  We were in the middle of enjoying this restfulness, sitting in bed, drinking our coffee ..............

G- What is that sound?

P- Sounds like water.  Did the toilet flush properly?

G- Yes, it flushed normally (I am saying as I walk to the bathroom)..... Holy shit! The toilet is overflowing!!!  It flushed normally, but the water keeps running to refill it.  There is no valve to shut the water off.  SHIT!!!!!

P- Move over and let me see.  OMG!  The water is getting deep!  I hope it doesn't go into the room!! (Phyl flushed it, and the water goes down a little, but keeps running.)  Go call someone!!!!

G- Yes!!  This is room 364, the toilet is overflowing and water is just running over the bowl like a waterfall!!  Send someone quick!!!!!  (I hang up the phone and run back to the bathroom.  The water continues to flow and there is about 2-3 inches on the bathroom floor.  Fortunately, the ship is tilted in the direction of the wall and not the doorway, and the water was not spilling into the room.

P- I've flushed this bitch about 10 times and I'm just going to keep flushing it until someone gets here!  There is no way to turn the water off!!!

G- No shit!  What do you think I was doing when I had my head practically under the toilet?  I was trying to find a valve.  Just keep flushing!  At least you're stopping more water from spilling over.  Throw me those towels so I can make a dam by the door.

P-  Listen!  I think it has stopped running. 

G-  Ugh!!!  Thank you, Jesus!!!

Just then, Moose, the room steward knocks on the door.  We explain what happened and go sit back down on the bed.  He flushes the toilet several times and it flushes and refills normally.  He tells us he is going to have the plumber look at it, uses a plastic jug to scoop up the water, wipes everything and gives us new towels.  And, just like that he disappears.

G- I'm not sure he believed our account of that incident.

P - WTF?!  We certainly didn't just let the shower run and flood the bathroom.

G- Just like when you bring your car to a mechanic when it's making a noise, but when you get to the mechanic, the noise stops and the damn car is fine.  Damn toilet!!!

The remainder of the day was very uneventful.  It was a day at sea, and it rained all day. We did what people on cruises do, we ate constantly. We went to a lecture on art history and one on Tai Chi. Otherwise, we spent the afternoon reading in the Library. Neither of us could recall if the very young and wild Carnival cruise ships that we had sailed out of Nola had Libraries. We kind've doubt it. That crowd was considerably younger and the activities leaned to those poolside, including contests to see who can put the most fruit into his or her bathing suit. On this Alaskan cruise, it is far too cool for poolside activities and the passengers don't play with fruit. They eat it. Prunes especially; to keep themselves regular!! I'm not sure exactly what it says about us that we were very happy to sit in the library and read. I guess we were tired from traveling and we're not as young as we use to be. At least we know that when the mood takes us, we can still be wild and stuff fruit down our pants.

This night was formal night and we dressed as formally as we could with the limited amount of formal clothes we had. We didn't see Jackie and Hal at dinner and instead were sat with 4 women. It is ironic that there are some people you run into everywhere you go on the ship and other people you never see. 2 of the ladies we had dinner with we have subsequently seen all over the ship and the other 2 we have never seen again.

After dinner we went to the show, a sing and dance number one would expect on a cruise ship, then went up to the Crow's Nest for Motown and 50's and 60's dancing. We had an awesome few hours dancing and knocked out when we hit the bed.