May 29

May 29

Casablanca Morocco

Ummm… I’m in Africa – WHAT???  I’ve now been in 4 continents.  Pretty cool. 

I decided to take a tour today as I wasn’t supposed to have any duties today.  I did mention this to our ACD and he assured me that I wouldn’t.  I was scheduled for a couple of things, but thankfully, they would not interfere with the tour I was going on. 

The tour was called highlights of Casablanca.  I think it should have been called highlight and not highlights.  Overall, Casablanca was very dirty and run down, but the Mosque we visited on the tour was simply breathtaking.  The area around the Mosque was vast, wide open and awe-inspiring.  We were not allowed in the Mosque as you must be Muslim to enter, but we didn’t really have the time to visit inside anyway.  The other “highlight” of the tour was the olive market.  Literally thousands of olives sitting out on plates, trays, bins and bowls.  The smell was very strong, but quite lovely at the same time.  I did learn that Morocco is the 4^th largest exporter of olives.

After I returned to the ship in the early afternoon I had to get ready for my “duty” which consisted of standing at the gangway asking each guest returning to sanitize their hands.  The ship does offer free sanitizer throughout the ship.  Apparently the last time the ship went to Casablanca a ship wide sickness spread, so they wanted to make sure not to have that happen again.  I decided to try to make it fun for the guests, so as they would come close to the gangway, I said “Be Wise, Sanitize”.  The phrase is now copyrighted - J Hee hee

I had dinner, watched a movie and went to bed.  Nighty night…