Same, same but different!  Up early, gym, breakfast, 9:15 lecture with Bruce on all the unaccounted service personnel missing from the wars.  Had no idea!  There are something in the neighborhood of 70,000 service personnel still listed as MIA from WWII.  The total number of MIA from all the wars is only 80-some odd-thousand!  Crazy.  He told the stories of some of the missing – who were actually killed, but their bodies were lost during the craziness of the war.  He has been researching this and helping families try to find their loved ones so has some incredible first hand accounts of things.  A whole 45 minute presentation without notes – at all!  We have no idea how he remembers all these minute details.

Next up was Sharon with mindfulness and tips to meditate.  Extremely good – and very helpful for the 2 of us who can’t ever get our minds to shut off enough to really meditate.  Then lunch, then, horrors, Indian immigration!!!  We have been dreading this, literally for months, but were relieved that the immigration officials would be on the ship and we’d have at least 2 days with them if we ran into any issues with the old passports vs. new passports.  At our appointed time (we all have groups and appointment times to lessen the queue), we trooped down to the Meeting Room with all our paperwork and old passports in hand.  The line wasn’t too terribly long, maybe 16 waiting outside.  They had chairs set up in a line against the wall, and when 2 people were let into the room, we all got up and moved down 2 chairs.  Like synchronized musical chairs, just without the music!

Finally allowed into the room after about 10 minutes, we picked up our passports from the ship officers and sat in another queue, this one only a few people long.  It didn’t take much time before we were called to an immigration officer chair (which btw, they had a housekeeping guy who cleaned each chair after the passenger left – seriously? Cleanest ship ever!).  I went first and nervously handed over my documents and old passport – and then, poof, done.  Lickety split!  Could not believe how easy and smooth it went.  We for sure thought there would be complications because of the visa being attached to the old passport, but nah.  Easy peasy!  This is really Indian immigration?  Wow – oh, and Ed’s was even easier! He is marked “exempt” for fingerprints.  Yippee.  It is our lucky day for sure!

Done with immigration in record time, QR code in hand, we have the rest of the afternoon to ourselves on the balcony.  I immediately get the hand wash laundry done, then sit and blog. Ed plans our next trips and reads.

Then, same, same, no different evening.  Gym. Pre-dinner balcony drinks (no balcony music tonight though), dinner and – are you sitting down?  Actually going to the show!  It is Elysium, the one show we have not seen.  Good night for it as the clocks are going back 1 hour and 30 minutes tonight.  At least it is our only time change until we get on our flight home….makes it a lot easier on us – but tomorrow should be fun.  Let’s see how many people figure it out correctly…..