Pirates

Our son, Scott, felt that our itinerary (posted earlier below) was incomplete...that it should have also listed for day 86 "pirate battle." Well he is right that on that day we sail through the Gulf of Aden, between Somalia and Yemen, where pirates have been active. There is a German world cruise underway now that just this past Wednesday had all of the passengers unload on one side of this stretch of sea and fly to the other so they would be off the ship for this section due to pirates. Reference:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081209/ap_on_bi_ge/piracy

A neighbor women from German who lived 5 or so doors away from us is on this ship. She said the logistics were quite impressive to move all these people, especially since some of them were with walkers or wheel chairs. (Not sure how we feel about that demographic insight.)

So, this problem may be gone by the time we get there, or not. We also will be interested in the situation in Mumbai (Bombay, India).

Let the adventures begin!

Dave