Here we are crossing the Atlantic on our way to FLL with a stop in Bermuda. Last night was a pre-dinner "Crew Idol" show. There were 6 acts by crew members...one better than the next. SUCH TALENT!! It's such fun watching them perform. Captain Dag shared some good news.....the Lyre (harp) logo will be coming back. :app: He's not sure just when. Needless to say we were all so excited to hear this. We never understood why they took this away in the first place! EVERYONE loved it. It sounds like the word "Regent" may be dropped and it will just be Seven Seas.

After the show we had a wonderful dinner with Capt. Dag in Compass Rose. It was a great table as we were already friends with everyone at the table. This is always nice rather than start off with small chit chat with strangers. Unfortunately, we were told that Christian Saleau is no longer with RSSC. We've known him for several years and always had a lot of respect for him and an excellent raport. I don't know any of the details but we sure wish him well with any future endeavors. He'll be missed.

After dinner we went to see the comedian show followed by a game of Texas Hold'em (Tom won). We still play in the afternoons too, usually around 12 of us. I've won Bingo twice and some of the games in the afternoon but the best our trivia team has done is come in 2nd twice. There are some real smarties who play! They have trivia twice a day.

The weather has finally improved with warm and sunny days. The sun worshipers are happy to be able to lay by the pool again after some not so perfect weather. We got our invitation to Jimbo's Truck stop. It will go for 3 nights this year. I forgot all about this when I was packing and didn't bring any "trashy" clothes so I'll have to borrow from friends and put something together. That's always such a fun time with Capt. Dag and other officers bartending etc. While we're eating and partying in the crew corners, the crew gets to eat upstairs in LaVeranda.

Tonight we're eating in Signatures with friends. We decided to try it once (once is usually enough for us). Doris, tomorrow night we're eating with Marc & Harry...wish you were joining us!

When we're in Bermuda, the Mariner will also be there. We're hoping to go on board and see John Barron and others. The Mariner will also be in FLL on April 30th, the last day of the WC. If we had known this, we would have planned to get off the Voyager and get on to the Mariner and cruise back to California via the Panama Canal. Several California residents on the Voyager are doing this...makes sense!

To those of you on B2B here on the Voyager next month (May), Capt. Knute will be your captain and Loraine will be the CD.
Also found out that Capt. Dag will be our captain on the "President's Cruise" from Reykjavik to South Hamtpon in May 2009. Most of us are getting on in FLL and Mark Conroy will be on this leg, thus the name "President's Cruise". This sailing has become SOOOOO popular! This B2B was named "Viking" on LCT and is escorted by Ngaire and Ken. We're really looking forward to it.

Well...that's a bit of our news here from the Voyager.

ADDING: I forgot to mention that due to some of the inconveniences we've experienced this past week with missed ports due to refueling mishap (not RSSC's fault), medical emergency, headwinds... one unforeseeable thing after another....RSSC gave each passenger a $500. credit. This can be used as shipboard credit or towards a future/upcoming cruise (we used ours towards SAMBA). It's amazing how $$ can sooth the disappointment of missed ports :D