Wednesday 30 March, 2016

Well, our last day before disembarking in Los Angeles in the morning.  But our arrival has been delayed by about an hour as a crew member had to be air-vac'd from the ship just now.  We were advised of this a few hours ago and the helicopter from San Diego has just winched the person off - great drama, everyone had to leave certain open decks and we lowered our speed  to match the wind factor and the operation took just about 10 minutes.  Must have been very serious as we are so close to LA.  Perhaps someone ate a black banana, D!!!!! Yesterday a lady was taken off the ship having suffered a stroke! 

This cruise has not been without incident!  I also heard that we are on 'yello alert' - can't find out if that is about nori virus or respiratory problems but the salt & pepper shakers and all cutlery was removed from tables 2 days ago.  We are now using packet S & P & cutlery being handed to us.  

Other than that, all good.  We both played for a $1800 jackpot at bingo this afternoon without luck.  This will probably be my last posting unless something exciting happens in LA.  

Will dine with Joy and Ken tonight - has been lovely having friends to socialise with and we will definitely keep in touch.