Hi Mushers: We had a fantastic 8 nights as did our group from PV! We were scheduled to get off ship 9/6 and rent 2 vans and spend all day and one night and another day in Anchorage - thank God we got to spend 8th night on ship and no vans - Anchorage is OK but for short period of time - we took Regent bus and went to Hilton 9/7 - took scheduled flights out the 7th at 9:35 pm all went well - got home noonish yesterday - house behind us and across the street from us leveled while we were gone - knew it was going to happen but shocking to see it, though, after 30 yrs - wonderful old old beach houses torn down - sad for us but just as sad they cut phone lines GRRRRRR - so no internet for day and a half - I did get laundry and unpacking done - boring - trip was so wonderful - our group of 11, from here, had a great time - and so special to reconnect with old friends and meet many new wonderful people - Stars Lounge was jumping every night - do not mean to single out folks but "Bert" is one sexy woman and dancer - we have some great pixs but have to rely on "Grumpy" to download - Olivia do you have pixs from ML of the "girls"? It was so neat for us to have the gang from here and our Mush friends - miss you all and missed my LCT friends - Joanna