At sea all day. Spent easy day eating, sunning, and reading. At 9 am we went to a lecture about the history of Jerusalem, which was quite interesting. The main event of the day was a mandatory face-to-face with Israeli immigration to get a stamp allowing us to enter Israel. All 3000+ passengers had to go through it. They divided us into groups by deck, but at our appointed time, the line was half a mile long and it took us almost an hour in line to get to the table with three immigration officials (young ladies) to get the card stamped.
Dinner was formal and our two elderly English ladies are delightful. We met the two Irish guys on deck together during the day. They are alive and well, but they didn’t show up for dinner. This gave us a chance to compare notes with the English ladies who told us that the younger one, Patrick, talked to them quite a bit after last night’s dinner. They found out that he worked on a farm (our suspicions confirmed again!) and that the two of them were friends, not relatives. They also thought that the younger one was on a lookout for a new girlfriend. He had told them that he had two girlfriends before, but things didn’t work out. We’ll see if anything develops here.
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