When we booked future cruises (See Day 5 – 1/6/22 post) we received $400 cruise credits to us on this trip. That’s a whole lot of booze. So we flipped a coin – heads we spend it on spa treatments, tails we change our Day 8 excursion to a day pass at an all-inclusive resort […]
Today was Whale Watching Day!!!!! We wandered down the pier to our bus where we were whisked away to the boat. We then left the port riding the swells in the best ‘bucking bronco’ manner. Sadly, there was no wildlife (except several schools of flying fish and a few Turns and Boobies trying to catch
First, a bit of context. I’m actually writing this on Monday, January 10. We’re docked in St. Maarten (the Dutch side) But enough about me. Here’s the deal with Dominica. Our excursion wasn’t till 1:30 so we took full advantage: Up, 3 miles, breakfast on the veranda, linger over hot beverages, read, post to the
The day started like so many others: spit test, exercise, room service breakfast on the veranda. The morning was, however, different because we were in the midst of a run from St. Kitts all the way down to Barbados at the end of the chain. Thus, we weren’t scheduled to dock until noon. This left
Shipboard life is finally settled enough that I could work in an early morning (7:00) walk. The prominod around deck 2 is exactly 1/4 mile so 12 quick laps and I was ready for Breakfast. Cheryl decided that walking later was much preferable so as I was leaving room service showed up with ‘first breakfast’
Up at an uncivilized hour as we docked at Road Town on the Island of Tortola (Spanish for “Turtle”) After a quick breakfast (sorry, no food photos this morning) we donned ‘wet hiking’ gear… to meet our group for our excursion to Virgin Gorda (The Fat Virgin) – Columbus saw the highest hill and declared
When last we heard from our intrepid explorers they had poured themselves into bed in the wee small hours of the morning. Before we retired we hung a room service breakfast order on our door with a requested delivery time of 9:00. Room service was important for this meal because we were quarantined in our
The alarm went off some time before 4:00 so we could catch the 4:20 shuttle to the airport. This is not to say that we were awakened at that time. Some of us had been awake since 2:00. Others of us had slept peacefully and were “rip roarin’” and ready to get this adventure started!
This was anything but a typical ‘Day 0’ – no vacuuming, no cleaning bathrooms, didn’t even have to shovel the walks. That’s because we weren’t home. This trip actually started a week ago on Christmas day. Here’s the schedule: 12/25 – Quiet Christmas with dinner at Brad and Lily’s (both Carl and Jessica were in
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church, October 31, 2021 John 8:31-36 “Out of love for the truth and from desire to elucidate it, the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and Sacred Theology, and ordinary lecturer therein at Wittenberg, intends to defend the following statements and to dispute on them in that place.