AROUND THE SHIP

Well this should make everyone happy back home. It is 92 F in LA and 0 C here outside the ship with snow flurries. It is darn cold and we are all bundling up in warm clothing and staying indoors. Russia will be cold for us and so will Alaska. So we got our pay back didn't we?

Other photos show the dancers who did the CAN CAN show for us cruisers which was great. Had to take some photos and a private birthday party we were invited to. Ritchie and Judy, a couple from New York, invited us to their birthday party in their penthouse. The butler served us appetizers and drinks in their room and then we went to The Silk Road, a NOBU Japanese restaurant. The party was great. Ritichie is an actor who got his start in acting and making movies and TV sitcoms through his friend Dustin Hoffman. Judy was the producer of the Food Network and HGTV. We had dinner with them last night, and they are thinking of coming to Edmonton to visit us. Would be nice. The Chinese couple in the photos teach Tai Chi onboard and are from San Francisco. Martin works at Stanford University. He is a consultant on the particle accelerator that is being put together in Bern Switzerland. (They started it a few months ago and it didn't work.) There are some very interesting people onboard.

The end of the cruise is coming soon, so passengers are winding down. For the past four days, we have lost an hour everyday. Waiters, crew and passengers are starting to walk around like zombies. We have two days of rest and then two more days of losing hours. We are going through our closets trying to find the warm clothes we hopefully had packed somewhere. Then we have to go back to finding the cooler clothes when we start heading for LA. What small problems.

Time is flying by quickly and soon the cruise will be coming to an end. Everyone has enjoyed themselves very much, but we are looking forward to coming home soon.