Santa Barbara: We are anchored off-shore off Santa Barbara, sending passengers ashore via tenders (ship's boats). SB has no real harbor except for a man-made small boat marina.
We have beautiful weather, the Southern California Chamber of Commerce deluxe special weather that causes people to move here. San Francisco delivered the same, blue skies and sunshine.
I wonder if out-of-state people on shipboard have any idea how rare such weather is in San Francisco? It is more common here in Santa Barbara.
We expected rough water off the CA coast and actually had relatively little of it. We only talked to one woman who experienced sea sickness and that the first night out of LA/San Pedro. (N.B., "San Pedro" is pronounced "son pay-drow" in Spanish but Angelinos say "san pee-drow.")
California is filled with Spanish names pronounced all sorts of ways. For example, the town Vallejo should be pronounced "vie-yea-ho" but is pronounced "val-lay-ho." Port Hueneme should be pronounced "way-nay-ma" but is pronounced "why-nee-mee."
My favorite is La Jolla which should be pronounced "la hoi-ya" and for a change is pronounced correctly here. Out-of-state news readers normally come out with something like "la jaw-la," always good for a laugh.
I guess the mispronounced Spanish is no worse than the garbled Indian names you find in Washington state or in Massachusetts.
The cruise ends tomorrow and we'll be back to our normal blogging topics on Easter Sunday. Meanwhile, have a happy Good Friday.
