The Water Rationing Begins

Angie writes: Christmas Eve day and we have entered the mouth of the Amazon. The ship cannot produce any new water so cruisers are instructed to conserve water for the next 7 days. If we don't do a good job, water rationing will be instituted. Up late this morning after an exciting night of Texas Holdem and Kareoke. Blaine won the poker game but he paid the price by having to sit next to "Stinky Stan", an ancient shipmate that cannot count, pick up chips, figure out where we are in the game or (apparently) take regular showers. We then went to the Aquamarine Lounge for Kareoke. The best entertainment up there consisted of an ancient skinny old man dirty dancing around the floor with a bunch of young girls dancing around him, making sure he doesn't fall down and break a hip.
We have listened to several interesting lectures and are getting used to the intellectual flavor of this cruise. And incidentally, most of our flavor is coming from the lectures because the food on this tub is consistent with a college cafeteria. One menu a night and you can get it served to you in the dining room or serve yourself in the buffet. Dessert is a dish of ice-cream with some kind of sponge cake or white cake. Had cookies once and there was a feeding frenzy of old people so that was the end of the cookies. We saw people stuffing their pockets with pieces of fruit last night on the "fruit fountain". No room service on this tub. It's every man for themselves.