Cruise Notes from Mary

Cruise Notes from Mary
Mary Engram, CTA/MCC Travel Consultant
March 9, 2012

Happy Friday Everyone

Today’s Cruise Notes from Mary is light-hearted. Enjoy


Daylight Savings Trivia
Coming up this Sunday on March 11, we will all need to turn our clocks forward an hour. But the hour we lose in sleep, we gain in evening light. More factoids about DST:
• A large part of the world does not take part in this practice. Much of South America, Asia and Australia do not participate in Daylight Saving Time anymore, while a large part of Africa never recognized it.
• Benjamin Franklin is the unofficial "father" of Daylight Saving Time. In the late 1700s, he proposed that Parisians wake up earlier in the summer to save on candle use and instead utilize daylight. Unbeknownst to Franklin, this would someday be morphed into DST.
• Some experts suggest that Daylight Saving Time is harmful to children's sleep routines.
• In some parts of Europe, DST is commonly referred to as "Summer Time." In Britain, it's known as "British Summer Time," while in Germany, it's "sommerzeit."
• Daylight Saving Time ends on Nov. 4, 2012.

Today's Joke
A man had been driving all night and by morning was still far from his destination. He decided to stop at the next city he came to and park somewhere quiet so he could get an hour or two of sleep.

As luck would have it, the quiet street he chose happened to be one of the city's most popular jogging routes. No sooner had he settled back to snooze when there came a knocking on his window. He looked out and saw a jogger running in place. "Yes?"

"Excuse me, sir," the jogger said, "do you have the time?" The man looked at the car clock and answered, "7:15."

The jogger said thanks and left. The man settled back again, and was just dozing off when there was another knock on the window and another jogger.

"Excuse me, sir, do you have the time?"
"7:25!"

The jogger said thanks and left.

Now the man could see other joggers passing by and he knew it was only a matter of time before another one disturbed him. To avoid the problem, he got out a pen and paper and put a sign in his window saying, "I do not know the time!"

Once again he settled back to sleep. He was just dozing off when there was another knock on the window.

"Sir, sir? It's 7:45!"

Thought for the Month
The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers

Wishing you a great weekend

Mary Engram,
Your Personal Travel Consultant
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