Jordan

I am not sure whereI am up to with all the messing about re. the net. BUT my phone has 'given up the ghost' so I can not phone or text,zxcvbn.Chris sweetie will you please put my heating to 20d before you go to school on the 19th. We should dock in the morning and it depends on the traffic after that.Aqaba--Jordan. Well away from pirate alley so all the water cannons?? have gone from the decks at night and 'our' ghurkas can sleep easy. We still see them when we go down the gang way or when they give us a hand getting into the tenders.I enjoyed the tour of Aqaba, we went to a cinema to see 'The Jordan Experience' which had me hanging onto my seat.I assume we were 'in' an aircraft of the Jordanian Airforce as we were joined at one time by three more in formation in front of us which then peeled off and left us to it.We went over Petra and over Wadi Rum where Lawrence led the attack on Aqaba with the Bedouin from.It was brilliant,if I could buy the DVD I would do.Have just realised that I phoned you Chris and Steve from aft deck when I was relishing my G&T so if I have told you that already,never mind.Safaga,Egypt there is no shuttle bus, there is a tour for snorkelling and some of the crew have gone to scuba dive.Fabrice, the Food and Beverages manager will tell me all about it.We are great friends with Fabrice and Rossen the Maitre d' ever since we put in our order for 'jelly with no fruit please' at lunch in the Lido.Last year we used to get it but this year 'they' put loads of fruit cocktail in it. Both Mau and I like plain jelly with ice cream. We started asking the servers,no joy, the waiters, no joy.I told Mau that we should go to the top so I buttonholed the Maitre d'. I knew him slightly last year.I believe that he thought it a strange request but I don't mind people giving me funny looks. No joy but Ross said he had told the chef,so ,up a level to the Food and Beverages manager who is french and a total sweetie.The French are not really into 'jelly' with or without fruit but I knew he would pass the message on.Still no joy BUT our Executive Chef Gavin wears a chefs hat one foot tall and I rekoned an ego to go with it so I 'grabbed' him when he appeared surveying one of his kingdoms.The next day at luncheon the head waiter brought both of us a plate of plain jelly.Mau started to eat hers but it was colourless and I tasted a small ammount---tasteless.!I swear it was Gavins revenge on us Mau was still eating till I told her to pack it in.Explain to the head waiter that we wanted plain fruit flavoured jelly and next day it was strawberry jelly but the funny thing is that it is kept under the counter of all the rest of the cakes and puddings, never on top.Gavin gets his final revenge because all this happened at the begining of the cruise and we have got fed up with jelly but we daren't stop eating it. I rekon it is a battle of wills and he checks every day to see if we have eaten some.Nobody else can because they can't see it.Ah me, at least I shall have strong nails. I think Fabrice and Rossen call us the 'Jelly Girls' and they always stop for a laugh with us when they see us around.As for me ,I am glad that Gavin does not know which is my meal at dinner,I hope.Off to lunch now,and jelly.XXXXX