Friday

Mural on side of building.

Yesterday was a day at sea. Craig has been quite sick, running a high temp and coughing a lot. Thank goodness we brought along his antibiotic and decongestant for his sinus infection, as that is what it turned out to be. We just hung around, watched some movies on TV, read and ate a lot. We went to an origami box-making class and a presentation on Acupuncture, where I won a free acupuncture worth $150.

By today, Craig was feeling well enough to go to breakfast, but didn't eat much. We landed in a beautiful little port town by the name of Invergordon. Craig stayed on the ship to convalesce. and we walked around the town, visited their museum which had a wonderful display from the old county hospital. The problem with that was that Vickie and I remember many of the items displayed !!

Many of the buildings had beautiful murals painted on the sides. About 45 cruise ships that stop here during "the season". We have had beautiful weather, with temps in the 70's, which the locals say is unusual. Took a local bus to the Dunmore distillery, sampled some wonderful single malt whiskey and bought some. Then walked down into their little town of Invers (I think that was its name) and had lunch, at a little cafe called Meg's. Then took the bus back to Invergordon, where I realized that I had lost my camera. We went into one of the local shops, where they called Meg's, and they had my camera. One of the ladies from Megs was coming into Invergordon after they closed and she brought me my camera! How lucky I was !! We love listening to their speech, too.

After we got back to the ship, Craig went for the Acupuncture treatment for his hands. They have been causing him a lot of pain the entire trip ... it's his arthritis. Afterwards, he was able to make a fist, which he wasn't able to do before. We may check to see if Kaiser covers Acupuncture when we get back.

On to South Queensferry and Edinburgh tomorrow.