These birds would flock the ship as we were nearing or leaving a port. They glide, don't fly....white under their wings and on their chest......nose dive for their lunch.....which occasionally meant our balcony.....scared the _____out of me one day as one started to land on our railing.....they are called, believe it or not....BOOBIES!!
Enroute to Los Angeles, we played lots of bridge with Karen and Gary from the Villages in Florida. They beat us!!! (most of the time)
Here are our very fun tablemates for our first segment, Ft. Lauderdale to Los Angeles. On the left are Angela and Michael, a lovely Brit couple with whom we played Rummikub following dinner many nights.....Michael was the BIG loser, but a good sport! Next to them are Shan and Martyn, another great Brit couple.....they had the distinct honor of their boat being selected for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee regatta....they were kind enough to share videos of that experience with our table in a private showing.....a wonderful experience! Thanks again, Shan and Martyn. Next to us are Louise and Calvin.....or at least that is what I called him for three days....until Louise called Tom Bob and me Pat at bridge one day.....In my most subtle way, I corrected her and mentioned that Tom was Tom, not Bob and I am Kathy, not Pat......"Well, she said, my husband is Don, not Calvin!".....One of those times when you just needed to be there! Hysterical! A wonderful, fun dining table!
In line with the dining table, I must mention the dress attire.....Cunard has only three types of dinner attire: formal, semi-formal and elegant casual. Semi-formal is coat and tie: elegant casual is jacket only. Tom packs himself for our journeys....and he shows up with only one sport coat....we were all so very tired of looking at the same rag, night after night after night....when we made it to Los Angeles, I told Tom we were buying him another sport coat!!!! "Why?", he asks! The ship had a shuttle to a Walmart....worst Walmart ever. Fortunately, there were other stores around. Tom joined fashion society when we purchased a new sport coat with a tie to go with it....two new solid color shirts (purple and charcoal) and a white tie!!!! As we were then waiting for the bus, we discovered that we had left our iPad in the store. Tom races back and is gone for what seemed an ETERNITY, bout 20 minutes. Thank God, he found it! Many moments of panic!
The HIGHLIGHT of our journey thus far was meeting Jamie's dad George and Helen for lunch in Los Angeles!!!! Jamie is Kristin's husband and father of new baby Lucy..... It is our DEEP regret that we didn't get any pictures of that joyous occasion! We had delicious Greek food at a restaurant called, guess what?? George's!!!
But we DID get pictures of Lucy (and Kristin) to show George and Helen, results of one of the few Face Times.
