Wednesday, October 05, 2005

This is a shot that I took out from my video of the fire on the ship. We were about 3 hours outside of Athens, when the ship started to burn. We had just had breakfast and went back to our cabin to lay back before we got into Athens. I heard this horrible noise, like the gears were grinding on the motor. I said something to Barry, and he said it was probably a tugboat bring us in. I live in the largest port in on the West Coast, the Long Beach San Pedro port. And I have seen tugboats pulling ships. They make that kind of a noise. I went out to check it out and saw smoke billowing down the corridor. I told Barry let's get out of here the ship is on fire. I put on my life jacked and went to the deck, a long with the other 1600 passengers. This is when I took this photo. They kept us up on the on the fire, but they had to do it in first Italian, French, Spanish, German, then English. The reason was because the majority of the passengers were in that order, with the Italians being the largest group of passengers. However, because I speak Spanish I was able to translate to Barry what was going on. It usually took about a minute or two before they got to English. The other photo of the ship is of the damage the fire created. I shot that when we were getting off the ship and taken to Athens. They had to end the cruise, because the dining rooms and kitchen were burnt. The cruise line paid for our lunch and dinner in Athens, but we got there to late to do much but walk around a shopping area under the Acropolis, but not in time to visit it. The third picture is of an Athenian street dog. There were a lot of them, but I have never seen such laid back street dogs in my life. This guy was so comfortable he could sleep in the middle of the street in the most vulnerable position with his feet in the air. I thought this was extremely funny.

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