Our loading time is 11 am this morning. We are the first boat to be loaded which is good because that means we’ll be loaded some time today. Three other boats are to be loaded after us and I really hope they get everyone on because it would be heartbreaking to be left for another day, especially if they’ve booked their flight for this evening. Of course that’s a whole other story. Friends emailed us with the upsetting information that Emirates doesn’t have flights to Istanbul on Thursday night or Friday. They were one of the lucky boats that was loaded last Sunday. I’ll call the airline this morning. We have already missed the cheap group fare so have no attachment to Emirates. If they have no flights we’ll check with Qatar or British Air. If we don’t leave by Friday our visa expires and that could be a bunch more money to renew since you can’t renew for just a day, but must renew for a month! But that will be something we can deal with since we will have the peace of mind knowing DoraMac is loaded on the BBC Everest! We have much fonder memories of the real Mt. Everest than we will of the BBC Everest! This saga is starting to read like The Perils of Pauline. If we must stay until Saturday, at least our friends Rick and Suze are here awaiting a package from home before they can set out for South Africa. They have two aged cats which require special food and non was sold in India or here so it’s being shipped from the US and will be here in about 10 days. Rick and Suze worked on the Space Shuttle and I imagine that might have seemed simple compared to tracking down special cat food diet around the world!
So that’s how things stand. So far the sun is shining though it has an odd haze. We’ve hit the rainy season and it has rained almost every day the past several days. Just now I see a beautiful rainbow so that surely must mean good news! Go Sox!
Gotta go get ready!
Ru
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