Date: Apr 4, 2007 3:01 PM
Subject: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
AT SEA EN ROUTE TO SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT DAY II
We are in the Red Sea now, however, it is not red nor is it a sea. Now listen carefully children, and uncle Sherman will learn youse guys somfin.We have a lecturer on board who is a geologist. Usually these guys are so dry and draggy, all they do is put you to sleep. This guy is good. You have to be, to make stuff that takes millions of years, sound exciting. Anyhow, he explains that there are different kinds of bottoms for seas and oceans. A sea is a body of water over land
or has a land type bottom. Oceans rest on a different type of plate. It is an ocean plate. The Red sea has an ocean type of plate under it. It is really an ocean.There are red mountains in Egypt that do reflect red onto the waters if you are in the right location. Remember Mo? You know. Moses. The bible says God parted the Red Sea, at it’s head waters, for him. That too is not correct. The original said he parted the Reed Sea. Another miss translation. Look at what a
simple typo can do. The Reed Sea has been covered up by the Suez Canal water diversion.Does that qualify this as an educational blog?
Wait just one minute! Hold the presses! I just looked outside. We must have had to be further into the Red Sea for it to be red. It is so red it makes everything look red. I sent a picture.
At the last minute I decided I wanted to eat at Latitudes. You are supposed to have an advance reservation. I called up at 6:30 and they
found us a table for two at the very front center where I like to sit when they are having a show with dinner. They are having Arab style food and decoration this week and next. The decorations were great and the help were all wearing Arab costumes. They went to a lot of trouble to make the restaurant look like a tent and then they would turn on some lights and it 
would look like the shadows of camels were all around the outside of the tent. The belly dancer was a really cute little girl. Sitting right in front, naturally I got picked on. She tied her scarf around my head. I guess the light shinning on it was blinding her. A little later they had lightning flashes and loud thunder. A rain storm on the desert. I got picked on again. The French girl, now turned Arab, held an umbrella over me.
The food was very good. Some of the best mid east food I have ever had. The breads were the best I have had on the ship.
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