Mark Conroy missed most of the first week of the still on-going President's Cruise because he was in New York (?) accepting the Conde Nast award...pretty good excuse. He joined us in Kusadasi, Turkey in time for the evening concert at Ephesus which was wonderful. Needless to say, he was quite happy.

During the open bridge period, there was a copy of the announcement that RSSC sent to their masters and crews which siad something to the effect of Crystal had this award for 9 years so we (RSSC) want to break that record.