Can it be - no one has started a PEARLS Seamail thread yet! GOsh - I get to be first. Cool!

The LAMB/PEARLS gettogether was fantastic! Thank you Ngaire for putting that together. It was so GREAT to see so many of you again, and to meet so many new smiling faces.

What a wonderful group we have here - lots & lots of laughs. Arlene & Ruth are fighting over our Butler - they each want to bring him home.

Right now I am taking a few minutes to check onto LCT while arlene is getting a massage. Then - off on a special tour that we learned about from Ngaire.

Ngaire told us to go hear Mark Eddowes lecture. We did (At 9 AM - ugh). But he is doing a tour this afternoon on HUahine of no more than 8 people, going to some archeological & not oft-seen sites on Huahine. This should be most inteersting and I expect I'll have hundreds of pictures - he said there will be rarely seen birds & island views on this tour. That will make up for the Photo tour on Moorea we booked that was cancelled. Also, our Sail on Raitea has been cancelled - the tour operator has gone Kaput. We'll look for something else to do there tomorrow.

Last night Arlene & I decided to enjoy each other's company alone (briefly)the first night onboard & we had a delicious dinner for just the two of us. Of course, as we were leaving, we grabbed the LCT crew (or were we grabbed - Yeh - I think I remember being grabbed), and we strolled back out into town, and then back to the ship for some more fun & laughs.

Well, battery just about gone on computer and I need to get back to sunblock slathering. So that's all for now.