From: Sherman Rootberg (biggiroot)
Date: Feb 25, 2007 10:31 AM
Subject: Sunday, February 25, 2007
Sunday, February 25, 2007
AT SEA EN ROUTE TO MUARA, BRUNEI
Just a typical sea day. As we were leaving the restaurant, after dinner, Lars the hotel director was walking out at the same time. He always wants to talk to us. I have no idea why. Again I have no idea why, but he asks if we have had our Aquavit. All I can think of, is he must have stock in the company or better yet, any excuse to drink it. If you don’t recall, this is the turpentine smelling and tasting stuff from Norway that the Scandinavians drink. Lars says, then we must stop at the lobby bar for a drink. I said no thanks and Bobbi says okay. So we go in and Lars orders three shooters. I said no thanks, I have no paint to remove nor any paint brushes to clean. So he orders two Aquavits and a water for me. He goes on to explain that there is the name of a ship on the inside of each bottle. I took the bottle out in the light but could see nothing. He says we should take a bottle to the room and study it. He orders the bar tender to have a bottle delivered.
He and Bobbi drank down that crap while I remarked about the rare bouquet of the ice water. He then explains that they never drink while on duty. It’s really apple juice they are drinking. All this while drinking a shooter of the real stuff. Then something causes him to remember he was having dinner with a table full of people. He had only come out to powder his nose and now it was very important that he quickly went to powder. I think we almost had an accident at sea.
About five minutes after we entered our room, our door bell rings. Our butler is there with two shooters of Aquavit. But no bottle. I wonder if the bartender screwed up or if Lars changed his mind and decided he didn’t want to give up the Aquavit. Bobbi, having already consumed a shooter, found a proper use for this paint thinner. She spilled it all over herself. Great idea. I should have thought of it. Aquavit is also good for cleaning clothes. The soup spot from dinner is now off her jacket.
Another strange thing. I am writing this using Microsoft Word. Aquavit does not come up as a spelling error. Whoever wrote the program must have used the stuff too.
My friend Joe from Vegas says he wants to see more pictures of Bobbi and I. I don’t have a scanner and by the time I thought about getting someone to take one of us, Bobbi wanted to go pass out. So I found what I could that was already on the computer. I have one that the camera sales guy took yesterday. I have no scanner so Bobbi took a picture of that picture. I’m sending those.
Date: Feb 25, 2007 10:31 AM
Subject: Sunday, February 25, 2007
Sunday, February 25, 2007
AT SEA EN ROUTE TO MUARA, BRUNEI
Just a typical sea day. As we were leaving the restaurant, after dinner, Lars the hotel director was walking out at the same time. He always wants to talk to us. I have no idea why. Again I have no idea why, but he asks if we have had our Aquavit. All I can think of, is he must have stock in the company or better yet, any excuse to drink it. If you don’t recall, this is the turpentine smelling and tasting stuff from Norway that the Scandinavians drink. Lars says, then we must stop at the lobby bar for a drink. I said no thanks and Bobbi says okay. So we go in and Lars orders three shooters. I said no thanks, I have no paint to remove nor any paint brushes to clean. So he orders two Aquavits and a water for me. He goes on to explain that there is the name of a ship on the inside of each bottle. I took the bottle out in the light but could see nothing. He says we should take a bottle to the room and study it. He orders the bar tender to have a bottle delivered.
He and Bobbi drank down that crap while I remarked about the rare bouquet of the ice water. He then explains that they never drink while on duty. It’s really apple juice they are drinking. All this while drinking a shooter of the real stuff. Then something causes him to remember he was having dinner with a table full of people. He had only come out to powder his nose and now it was very important that he quickly went to powder. I think we almost had an accident at sea.
About five minutes after we entered our room, our door bell rings. Our butler is there with two shooters of Aquavit. But no bottle. I wonder if the bartender screwed up or if Lars changed his mind and decided he didn’t want to give up the Aquavit. Bobbi, having already consumed a shooter, found a proper use for this paint thinner. She spilled it all over herself. Great idea. I should have thought of it. Aquavit is also good for cleaning clothes. The soup spot from dinner is now off her jacket.
Another strange thing. I am writing this using Microsoft Word. Aquavit does not come up as a spelling error. Whoever wrote the program must have used the stuff too.
My friend Joe from Vegas says he wants to see more pictures of Bobbi and I. I don’t have a scanner and by the time I thought about getting someone to take one of us, Bobbi wanted to go pass out. So I found what I could that was already on the computer. I have one that the camera sales guy took yesterday. I have no scanner so Bobbi took a picture of that picture. I’m sending those.
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