Mona and I are in the Orlando airport waiting for our flight home. We had a wonderful dinner last night with some "other people" from LTC. I'll post a picture when we get home.

Andie and Doug, I hope you get power back soon. It was great to see you. Tom.

Andi, hope you warm up soon, and that the damage is not to bad.

These were sent to Ngaire by Mike M and she thought the pooch players may enjoy these. John ordered dog biscuits for our pooch session. We had all just eaten lunch but at the end of pooch only four biscuits remained.



Elsa bought them to the pooch tables and is retiring from Regent this was her last cruise. She is going home a "normal" life in Australia. She will be missed.

Arlene,

I wonder if Elsa is getting married. Maybe the note and flowers you took her worked.

OH sweet pictures! Andi what a nightmare with your electricity! Hope things return to normal ASAP!!!

So sorry Andi

We finally left DFW at 02.30am Sunday morning on the Qantas 747! Only a 15 hours and 40 minutes flight!. Amazing that there were only 60 people in economy (coach) so we were able to have a row each for a good sleep. Qantas had accommodated and fed us at the Hyatt Regency at DFW so we were very well looked after. They even had a staff member stay in the hotel to keep us posted with the latest news. We are now sat in lounge at Brisbane for 3 hours waiting for our flight up to Cairns (2 hour flight).
Andi and Doug, sorry to hear of your troubles, our delay was easy compared to what you have been through. By the way the weather here in Brisbane is beautiful! See you again soon.

Thank you all for your kind words and allowing me to kvetch on this thread! We are really very fine now. We are happily in bed at the Hampton Inn, a 15 minute trip from our house. Our room is toasty warm and they have free tea, coffee and hot chocolate 24/7 in the lobby. We have free internet and free breakfast and had a nice dinner of fried clams at Legal Seafood. I've called some tree guys and they can probably save 3 of the 4 trees. One is down and out...I'd rather have spent the money on some new shoes or a new iPhone, but worse things can be wrong with one's life. Frank and Wendy, glad you are back in Australia...one of these days, we'll get so fed up, we may hop a plane and show up on your doorstep....(not really, we always call first!!) We're lucky to have you folks as friends and truly live a blessed life albeit we wish ConEd would get its act together and get our electricity up!

Glad you are warm, have internet, phone and TV Andi. How frustrating the last few days must have been. It is amazing how hard some areas got hit, while others had nothing at all.

Frank and Wendy, so glad you are finally home and your trip is over. I'm sure it was frustrating and annoying, but as yous said Quantas took really good care of you, fed you, housed you and such which a lot of airlines don't even bother with these days, but still, it must have seemed like an endless trip. Glad for you that it is over and you are home. Fun meeting you both, hope we see you again one of these days.

Mona and I made it home Monday afternoon after a stop at Disney World.

The highlight of our post cruise stay was a trip to see Betty and Larry. They were so nice to invite us to their lovely home in Indialantic and take us to dinner at a local restaurant.

It was great to begin and end the cruise with them. Tom.

Looks like such fun...you all 4 look marvelous, missing you all!

It was such a special treat to have Tom and Mona visit us post cruise.

Tom, glad you and Mona made it home ok, we had such a rainstorm the day you were leaving, I had some doubt.

Missing you to Marcie!

lovely