The day started badly. I was “multitasking” at breakfast, which meant I was catching up on the emails and text messages. Marlene hates that when we are having a meal. I didn’t think I was ignoring her, but she did. She stomped away. She was pretty cold to me most of the rest of the day, which is not a good place for a relationship to be the day before Valentine’s Day.
We went ashore separately. I ran into her in one of the port shops but she walked away again. I continued on by myself, searching for a Valentine’s Day gift. I found a nice bracelet and talked the guy down a bit, but probably still got ripped off – Marlene knows jewelry values much better than I do. Then, after buying it, I had second thoughts about the color. I liked the blue stones that were in the bracelet but I knew she would be wearing red at dinner. I went back to the shop with the intent of exchanging it for the red stones. But the red was more vermillion than scarlet. I wasn’t sure. I went back to the ship, intending to ask her which she would prefer.
But I couldn’t find her.
I blogged for a bit and she found me. I explained my uncertainty and she said “I’m sure it is fine.” Then she told me about some tequila she had seen in the duty-free shop. Off I went to buy some tequila. While out – without the bracelet – I got a text from her asking if I could exchange it for red. Argghhh!
Back to the ship. By the time I got to the cabin to get the bracelet we were about an hour from “back on board time.” Too close. I guess she will get the blue bracelet.
I blogged for a bit. Then, when I realized that the ship wasn’t moving when I thought it should be, realized that I had fallen victim – again – to the Cozumel time anomaly. For reasons not obvious to me, whenever a ship is in port in Cozumel the ship time is an hour behind local time. And my phone time. So it occurred to me – to late to do anything about it – that my decision to not go ashore to get the red bracelet was based on the wrong time. I could have made it, easily. *sigh*
We had made up, more or less, by dinner. We went to the show then to the comedy show, both good but not great.