Hello from beautiful Menorca! What a great port this was…just charming. Last night was hilarious. I’ll try my best to begin to describe the joke we played on Todd.

Todd had organized a tour of Barcelona for any of the 007ers since he’s been there several times and knows it well. Last night at dinner Joanna and Tony thought it would be fun to act like Todd was in deep doo doo because of “organizing/conducting a tour without a license”. Olivia’s son Brice is a master of voice disguises so we elected him to call and leave a message in Todd’s room (Todd was at a different table then us at dinner). Brice used a heavy Spanish accent and left a message that he was Mr. so and so (long Spanish name) from immigrations/port authority and it was imperative that Todd contact him immediately about operating illegal tours etc. Of course Todd was sitting at dinner when all this was going on so Joanna walked over to Todd, Frank and Carla’s table acting like she had received a very alarming message about the tour she had done with Todd earlier that day. Joanna did a great job acting very upset about such an alarming message. At first Todd was pretty blasé – “oh I am not worried” – Joanna told him he’d be worried once he heard the message – she hoped he wouldn’t be fined too heavily and, of course, jail was out of the question – she hoped !! He is getting stressed at this point -

Well about 45 minutes later Brice left a 2nd message on Todd’s phone even more stern saying that this incident was of the utmost importance that it needed to be resolved and that this could delay our 11pm departure from Barcelona if it wasn’t resolved. By this time Joanna, Tony, Olivia and her daughter Joanna, Brice and his wife, Tom and me are all in the Voyager lounge. Todd comes in with Frank and Carla and walks up to Joanna whispering (and stressing out) something about the TWO messages he’s now received and what to do blah, blah, blah. We all got involved in the conversation trying to make suggestions such as “just pay the fine if the fine is really outrageous $$$ maybe we can all chip in” etc. The best line of the night was when I said with a straight face “So Todd, you could end up in jail huh???” Todd says back “MARCIE, you are NOT helping!!!” Just then @ 11pm the ship starts sailing. Todd is so excited. He keeps looking out the window over and over saying VERY RELIEVED “We’re moving”. Every 2 seconds he looks out the window again and say’s “We’re moving” Joanna the ship is moving – Joanna said “yes but they could be waiting for you at the next port” - By this time it was all we could do to keep a straight face. Tom then takes it upon himself to tell Todd the truth (we were having such fun we would have kept the joke going a bit longer). We had so much fun with Todd and he was a great sport (probably wanting to kill us!). We were actually considering a 3rd phone call to Todd’s room informing him that Homeland Security had been notified etc. Anyway………it was all so funny! One of those “You had to have been there” nights!

This will be my last seamail! We’ll be departing tomorrow morning (sob sob) and on to Dublin for a few days! We will sure miss everyone! Deciding to come on this cruise was one of the BEST decisions we ever made!