Weather is Sunny Skies and 81 degrees and seas are smooth. We're somewhere between Grand Turk and the Bahamas. The usual sea day activities are happening.

We did the photo excursion yesterday in St Thomas and right from Paradise Point over the view of the harbor was a spectacular rainbow. The rest of the excursion was geared to camera newbies and the scenery less than I would have aimed my lenses at so we were disappointed. It was so different than the photo excursion in Tahiti. Tomorrow in the Bahamas, we will be wandering on our own so we can take photos.

During the sail away, Capt. McNeill played his usual bagpipe music and got into a horn blowing competition with the Holland America ship in port. That was really fun and the weather was perfect for it. Giuseppe and Lyndsay came by to visit with Diana and I who were taking it all in before we headed in for the daily Tea Trivia and Bingo Session. Oh - and Diana won (all of $15.00 if I might add)

I played blackjack with Brooke and Clay last night. Ngaire, you sure did something right and your son is a chip off the old block. Very delightful.

This morning we treated ourselves to Hot Stone Massages in the spa - heaven! We had lunch in CR but most everyone is doing Tex Mex by the pool. I am having a cocktail party in my room and I created a slide show of past cruises that I am sharing with the gang on board who cruised with me.

For full size photos, try using the guest password "LCT" on my photobucket link above. It took Don and me over an hour to get those few photos up and linked, so you will just have to accept that as the best we could do for this week. Either that or I could direct you to a website that sells reading glasses and all the photography on it is mine. (My first pro photo job) We kept crashing when we tried Kodak Gallery.

Well, Mark is trying to get a crew of card players for a Texas Hold'em game going. I hear the sound of cards shuffling and chips clinking and I have a blackjack tournement at three follwed by Tea, Trivia and Bingo. Ah, this is the life!