Hi All

I'm a bit slow, aren't I? When asking you to compare cabins, I forgot the minor detail of telling you that the ship we are sailing on for our first ever cruise, is the Navigator from New York to Montreal and we have an 'E' category cabin (sorry - I know Radisson don't call them cabins but their title has slipped my little mind for the moment!).

The time I spend on this site is usually done at work (when there isn't any) but I am at home at present and our printer isn't working and this computer works at such a slow pace, I will wait until I get back to work to print all your information out and then I'll have a lovely time reading it properly.

Only one thing terrifies me more than a single engine plane and that is a helicopter! I must remember to take a good supply of Bacardi and Valium!!

Kathy, it's probably staring me in the face, but where will I read Masaki's report?

For those of you who've read that I met Ngaire all those years ago in New Zealand, I think will know that on several occasions (if I told her) I went on a Cessna and landed on a glacier near Mount Cook, which was fantastic, but that was when I was young, ten foot tall (for 'tall' now read 'wide') and 'bulletproof'. I really don't think I could do it now. I have enough trouble with 747's. I simply hate heights and can't even get near the edge of a balcony which isn't on the ground floor.

My son arrives home from New York tonight for nearly two weeks - how terrific is that?

I won't be back at work until after Christmas, so I hope all of you who read this site have a wonderful Christmas and a fabulous 2005. For most of you, the weather will be the complete opposite to ours, so for those who want snow, I hope you get it.

Best wishes

Lee