Wow!!!! It was everything I had hoped for times 10. We had an excellent, excellent trip. We got along well, visited friends far and wide and made many wonderful new friends.
The trip was possible because of the great team we had at home watching our backs. It took a village (according the Sharon!) to get us around the world. Thanks so much to all of you, Cheryl and Errol, Sharon, Mary B, Karen, Donna, Steve and Alice, Vince and Debbie, Andy G, and, of course, Liz and Ellen and many more.
It was great visiting the ports and we were delighted we did so many of our own tours instead of taking the ship tours. It made all the difference. It is hard to believe but almost everyone just got on, opened the tour book and signed up for a ship tour. Once we left New York, it was too hard for people to plan out private tours. Many were wishing they had done the same thing, but had been too afraid they would miss the ship and then it was too late.
We did a lot of hopping on and off the ship and flying to places on our own. We had a few anxious moments, but we always made the ship in time. The closest we came to missing it was in Honolulu with Carl and Carla and we were only a mile away at the Waikiki Yacht Club Bar. Go figure…
Places I would like to return to are Australia and New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, England, Italy (Rome in particular) and Greece. I would love to go to any of those places, get an apartment for an extended time and “live the life” as Ellen and I call it. I think this is something we will likely do.
We had a great time in Thailand with Liz and Tim. I don't think I will ever forget those wild monkeys and climbing up into the fish house on the bamboo ladder. Wow! What a great day, thanks for planning it Liz.
Would I do the full World Cruise again? Maybe in 6 or 8 years. It was a big time and financial commitment. Not only the time actually on the ship, but all of the time planning all the excursions in advance, making all of the other arrangements to be out of touch for so long, organizing our clothes including shopping and packing, taxes, financial and insurance arrangements etc. It was months of heavy duty planning in advance. We have a very full and busy life at home and wouldn't want to be away for so long again soon.
The blog… well, Liz really worked on me to do it. I am sure she wondered why later when she ended up with the huge amount of work it took to post everything, especially all of the pictures. I admit, I groaned a lot because I had to go work on the blog, but I sure am happy to have it now. It made me organize my pictures and really think about what we saw and the good and not so good parts. It seems like we had a lot of readers, so I guess our friends and family were interested. It was a good way to keep in touch with home, rather than by individual email.
We return to NYC on Monday, will be picked up at the ship by Steve to deal with the luggage, picked up at the airport by Errol and Cheryl, dinner with Sharon and Gordy on Monday, the day with Stirling and Clare from the Queen Victoria on Tuesday, Ellen and Greg arrive on Wednesday and leave on Friday, dinner with Errol and Cheryl on Friday, Derby Party on Saturday (I hope), Elaine from the Queen Victoria on Sunday and so it goes… life is good. What would it be without our great friends?
Jeanne
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It's going to be nice to have you back in cell phone range!
I am glad you stuck with the blog. I know that it was a lot of work, but now it's all done, and you don't have to worry too much about dealing with pictures when you get back to the beach!
You two have been so great sharing your trip with so many of us...really enjoyed all the comments, pictures, but mostly the referrence and research.
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