Late late,but oh my what a wonderful beginning. Two great days of weather, we won't talk about "arrivals" at the airport. mine was great, others different . Have not had my camera at hand, dumb me. BUT, counting on Tom G to give a few "people" shots. He promised!

YIPPPEEEE mail! Thinking about all of you boarding today to begin this wonderful adventure!

I am SO looking forward to the sea mail. We are boarding the Navigator when your cruise ends. We haven't cruised since 2006!!!! So many changes since our last cruise. I'll be "taking notes" about all the things we must take advantage of on the ship. We were last on Navigator in 2004--met Tom and Mona on that cruise. Some day we hope to travel with one of these great groups of LCTers. You always have so much fun!!! Enjoy every moment (I know you will). Jacki (and David) :bv:

Yay! Our first seamail! Looking forward to Tom's "people shots"!

Jacki & David, we are on the same cruise as you - hope to meet you! Five years is a long time to go without cruising, I am sure you are hungry! :)

Posting precruise dinner pix for Tom:

Hi everyone! We're on board. What a great couple of days we've had here, just super people and the weather has been perfect too. I see Karen posted Tom's pictures from last night, sure was fun! The Intercontinental was a very nice hotel. We were lucky to get an upgraded corner separate bedroom suite. We also had a nice private room in the bar area which was perfect for our group.

Even though we've only been on the ship a few hours, it's already been so nice hanging out on the pool deck, seeing old friends and catching up. We're eating dinner tonight with Mark, Arlene and Olivia, we scored a last minute res at Prime 7 for tonight. We're hooking up earlier with a B & K pre-dinner meet & greet at Galileo's.

This is such a wonderful group of people...Tom & I are so excited to be back on board. Sun is shining and temps are perfect.

Now off to unpack. ...and Joanna, last night at dinner I raised my Sambuca glass and we all toasted you and Tony. Tom & I are already missing our other half of the M & M's. :hug:

everything sounds and looks wonderful

We are here!!!

Only an hour from touch down to being onboard; landed early, no one in line at immigration, bags first off, hit the ATM and then limo to ship. ;) Ran into so many familiar faces it was wonderful. To top it off..

... Prime 7 tonight!

After an active day, we have already cancelled our first excursion tomorrow morning. ;)

:lct:

Yay Marc! It sounds like your arrival went perfectly. Enjoy!

Oh, this is great!! Wonderful photos, Tom! Everyone looks terrific. Thanks for posting them, Karen. Prime 7 tonight sounds so good.
Have a great cruise! Really looking forward to the Sea Mail.

Marc, Sounds like you arrived in Montreal at the best time. Good for you and Arlene.

If you get a chance, you can walk from the ship to the funicular and take it up to the Old Town. It is really nice to walk around to look at the shops and buildings. Be sure to stop in the Chateau Frontenac for a look around. It's a lovely hotel.

Love hearing from you all, you all look GREAT! I just had the biggest smile seeing everyone.

Keep that pretty little ship primed for us, as we are on the following cruise. ;) Our cruise is overbooked and Susan W. called us with an offer from Regent today which we declined. Really looking forward to being on Navigator.

Bon voyage!

Loved pix and seamail!!!! It is a great group and know you will have fantastic trip! I told Tony we'll toast to all of you tonight from sleepy uneventful PVB :) :) Tony cleaned back yard and pool today I shopped to help with my depression bought big bag of M&M'S - MORE MAIL PLEASE!!!

Loved pix and seamail!!!! It is a great group and know you will have fantastic trip! I told Tony we'll toast to all of you tonight from sleepy uneventful PVB :) :) Tony cleaned back yard and pool today I shopped to help with my depression bought big bag of M&M'S - MORE MAIL PLEASE!!!

We are having the best time. The ship looks great. We enjoyed the B&K sail away cocktail party last night. Then had a wonderful dinner in Prime 7. Today charming Quebec City.

A wonderful time....

Great company...

Great food...

Great service...

And it has been less than 24 hours.

Stars Lounge looks like it will be the main hangout as quieter and less crowded than Galileos. Belgian beer is aboard courtesy of Michael. Maitre D' in Navigator is the Head Waiter Steven from Kangaroo. And, of course, a wonderful group of B&K'ers. I met so many yesterday who I have already forgotten today; names, faces, it doesn't matter; it is going to take me a while to learn all the new faces and names. Arlene is working on our "dance card" to fit in so many new friends.

In Quebec City today; easy excursion so I will have to get on treadmill later; tomorrow we have hike in Saguenay.

More later...

I think that is the Navigator behind the building on the left?

Hey Kristin, we got the same offer. We also declined. Looking forward to meeting you in two weeks. :hello1: Sorry for the interruption, back to the sea mail!! :D

Joanna we missed you and Tony so much last night at our Kangaroo "reunion" dinner... you are right though chocolate works wonders (and shopping too).

Kirstin, when I heard you were coming on right after us, I was sure wishing we could see you in between, but we have tight flights so it won't work unfortunately. So close and yet so far!

We are having a wonderful time, seeing all the LCTers new and old. There are a lot of you not on board though, and you are MISSED!

Ship is in wonderful shape and it is nice to be on the smaller Navigator for a change.

More later, off to meet Ngaire and Ken to discuss ZODIAC and maybe fit in a game of hearts.

(Karen, LOVE the new "jump to" feature!

It's so great to hear from all of you! Thanks for the seamail and have a WONDERFUL cruise!

I'm at the OKC airport on my way back to Houston. Loving the seaamail and photos. Keep them coming. What a wonderful group for a cruise. Party hardy! I know that goes without saying.

Hi all -

We too are having a great time. Enoying seeing the LCT'ers we know and meething those we don't.

Cold, windy and cloudy today, but our trip to Montmorency Falls was still spectacular and enjoyable.

Karen that is not us behind the Crown Princess, there are 5 ships in today, that one is the AIDA ship. We are docked about a mile away from the town.

Time to rest a bit,then tea time and trivia. Captains dinner tonght.

Arlene, what is the new jump to feature? If you mean that little blue arrow, that has always been there!

I am bummed that I can't get a good stalk, maybe tomorrow!

Glad that every made the ship Arlene. I know that it will be a great trip.

Russ and I are back in Aluquerque for my second rotter cuff surgery on Monday, I tore it again shopping last weekend before the OU-Texas gasme. I still made it to the game, but did a number on my shoulder.

Keep the posts coming.

Susan

Hi everyone. We're having a great time. A little cool weather and rain today but we were still able to see old Quebec.

Here are few pictures.

Grat shots, Tom. Looks like the foliage is cooperating.

Looking forward to seeing and reading more as your voyage progresses.

Wow, those pictures are striking. Can't wait to see more!

Thanks for pixs! Arlene we miss you and Marc too - no trouble filling your dance card :app: :app: :app:

Beautiful pictures, Tom. Love the pumpkins.
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Helen

what great pictures! So many we have sailed with, it makes me homesick. Most recently Ralph! hi and hugs to you all......as always, I wish we were there.........Have a wonderful, perfect trip. I have a feeling it will be one of the best ever.....

You all look so incredibly happy! Hope that we'll run into a bunch of you when we join you on board for an hour or so next Sunday for lunch in NYC! We'll at least have a taste of the Canada crew. Keep having a ball!

Karen,

(Arlene on Marc's account)

Yesterday when I was on the ship's computer, and on LCT, I went to "todays" active topics" then when the list comes up, by each topic there was a little "bar" that you could select that said "jump to most current post" Now that I am on Marc's computer in our suite, I don't see it, so it must be either a feature of the ship's computers or the windows program on those computers. I didin't realize something like that could be different between computers. (Shows what I know) If I get a chance I will take a pic and send it to you or post it. But may not be able to as our camera seems to have bitten the dust on the first day of the trip.


We are having a great time. Dinner last night with Micael (GM) and his wife Stephanie, Marcie and Tom and another really nice couple that was on KANGAROO with us. Then lots of fun chatting down in stars after dinner. This is such a fun group of friends.

We went into a gorge on our tour yesterdsay (258 steps down and 258 steps up UGH) that was just beautiful. The waterfals were beautiful and the leaves seem to be in peek at least to me. Just beautiful. A nice change to be out enjoying the nature rather than touring more cathedrals ruins!

Even got a first game on Hearts in in the morning with Ngaire and Ken. She had great new Hearts score sheets we are beta testing. Alas Marc won and I came in last... not even close.

Wishing more of you were here with us...

We sure did love Quebec City...what a quaint, charming, clean town. We were lucky that we walked for about an 1 1/2 hours then went on a horse carriage ride and no rain until after we got back on the ship. It was cool but we were dressed for it so no problem. The afternoon excursions weren't so lucky.

Last night we had great dinner (dover sole) with Michael Coghlan and his beautiful wife Stephanie (she'll be performing tomorrow night). It was so fun, just a perfect table.

After dinner Tom & I saw the show "Just Swing" which was excellent, so much singing and dancing talent. After the show we joined many in Stars for some later-night Sambuca.

Here are some dinner and Quebec City pictures.
Dinner & Quebec City Pictures

Watch out for Ngaire and Ken in those Hearts games, Arlene. Lots of shooting the moon going on with those two.

I guess 1/2 a ship is better than nothing! I hope the weather improves a bit for you.

Loving the mail and photos. I'm ready to sign on for this trip sometime in the future. So beautiful. Looking forward to more mail and photos.

Thanks for the great photos, Marcie. Isn't Quebec City beautiful? Looks like the fall leaves are just right .... well planned.

Thanks for posting you all. Can't wait for more!!

I know Leslie, and I am so rusty I am playing right into their hands. Still it is such fun. I will have to start practicing several weeks in advance on Taj Mahal / India /Taj if I have any hope of being able to play with you and Brad! So glad the two of you booked that one, it has been too long since we have seen you.


Rainy out this AM so we didn't go on our hike. Instead went out and walked around this afternoon after it had cleared up. The weather is cool, but terrific for Marc and I as we like the cool. Leaves have been amazing, hopefully that will continue. Off to play Hearts in a few minutes, then trivia, then Ngaire's party, then dinner. May even have a bit of energy left for after dinner chatting and fun. Such a tough life on board!

Hi Arlene. Sounds like a wonderful time so far, even if Ngaire and Ken are the aces at cards!

And Marcie and TomG, I love your pictures, both of Quebec and dinner. Quebec is so beautiful, in a way unlike anywhere else in North America, I think. It has been years since we've been there, and I wish we were along with you!

JoAnn and Frank, great picture!

The pics are really great. And look forward to all reports as we are doing the reverse cruise next year.
Love Quebec City--so beautiful. I love to just walk all over. Your fall pics are nice to see, as I have only been there in summer.