It\u2019s Monday, August 14, and my first day back to work after a 9-night cruise to Bermuda, San Juan, St. Thomas, and a private island. My wife and I like to get away right after basketball season ends and right before football season begins.\u00a0 All the weekends in between are pretty much taken up with sports.<\/p>\n
If you cruise, you know that sports and national TV are not high priorities on the ship. There is a really nice flat-screen TV in the rooms, but most channels are commercials for the cruise company in the form of desired excursions, specialty restaurants, daily schedules, enticing spa treatments, and shopping tips.\u00a0 Actual programming pretty much consists of keeping the children occupied with DreamWorks TV and programming for almost every nationality on the ship.\u00a0 I did find a soccer game from time to time, but not much else.<\/p>\n
It is even difficult to keep up with the news. CNN is on the dial and is about the only source for up-to-date information available.<\/p>\n
So this is literally a vacation not only from the workplace, but a true vacation from sports. And my wife is not unhappy about that.\u00a0 Filling the gap is beach time, great entertainment, big buffets and excellent dining.\u00a0 For some reason, she finds this more appealing than baseball, golf, and preseason football.<\/p>\n
We did experience a bit of reality \u201cTV\u201d, when one morning we were awakened by a Coast Guard helicopter right outside our balcony. They were there to airlift a passenger who had fallen and seriously injured themselves.\u00a0 The ship had diverted off course in order to get the passenger to the hospital.\u00a0 The helicopter lowered a man and a basket and eventually raised the patient to the chopper and got him to a hospital.\u00a0 It was both sad and exciting.<\/p>\n
Returning home meant reading nine days of the Express-Times and the Morning Call to catch up on, you guessed it, all the news and, especially, all the sports that I missed. What I immediately realized is that high school and college football is right around the corner.<\/p>\n
The break was certainly a nice one. I, too, like good food and good entertainment, but when the song asks, \u201cAre you ready for some football\u201d, my answer is a resounding \u201cYes\u201d.<\/p>\n
I hope you are, too!!<\/p>\n
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