Well we made it home finally too. After a fun morning with Mark and Karen, the 4 of us (one of the couples from my little group) and they dropped us and their luggage at the airport, you should have seen the 6 of us with my last count 11 bags plus small carryon's - the security guy at the airport was laughing his head off, said it reminded him of those old "how many people can you cram into a phone booth or VW days" Mark took the car back then we all just hung out waiting till we could check our luggage. Apparently you cannot check it before 4 hours prior to your flight, at least thats the rule in Anchorage. We all watched the Pittsburg game, then finally got to check in, had dinner. Saw Ken, Ngaire, Debbie and Russ - then Mark and Karen took off for their flight (Oh yeah we saw Marcie too, but early in the day) and we sat around and tried to entertain ourselves for the next 4 hours. Flight coming in was 1/2 hour late, so we did not even board until 12:15 this morning, a forever flight to Denver - I think I slept about 5-1/2 minutes, then a rush to catch our connection. Am so tired right now I can't function - we've been up since 6:30 Alaska time yesterday, which is 4 hours behind East Coast time. I have a raging headache, and am trying to stay up till some sort of a reasonable hour so as to get back on normal schedule.

OK, that said and done - it was one of the best weeks of our lives - and certainly one of the best cruises ever, in spite of having to stay onboard for an extra day!!! :D :D :pass: :pass: It was so much fun meeting everyone, which I think I said previously so won't do the roll call again - but we had a great time and can't wait to cruise again with those from this board.

Plan to start catching up on the TUSH'ers and all their antics tomorrow, when I can read, much less absorb everything. Right now I'm so blurry eyed I can hardly read what I am posting.

Jake, our kitty was very happy to see us and Shelby seemed to survive the spa with no issues.

Marcie - sure hope Mr. Magoo gets better soon, we've been there done that with the herniated disc thing, and managed to nurse our Pepper thru many years without surgery - but it was sad to see him slow down. Please keep us updated.

Andi - sure hope Maggie is doing better - again keep us all updated, as you know we are all animal lovers here. ( we ran into them with Kathy's group yesterday and Andi was saying that Maggie was having some blood problems - sorry if I spoke out of turn Andi)

Anyway you'all will get updated on everything else tomorrow when I can read again.