The End

This 5-day trip went way too fast.  It seemed like 3-days, wished it was 8.  

It’s not a trip for everyone.  There’s no TV, no casinos, no bingo and such.  No karaoke, no dancing, no nightclubs or bars.  No exercise equipment, no waterslides, no deck chairs or pools.  No on-board shopping or t-shirt shops on shore.  No, not even a jewelry store.  We had none of that.  Thank goodness!  

So what was there?  Rod’s pictures capture it well.  If you like what you see below then you’d probably enjoy this trip too.  I sure did.  

For those of you who know Rod, it will come to no surprise that he brought some specialized radio equipment such that we were able to create a mini Wi-Fi  hot-spot within our room.  No one, repeat no one else on board was as able to connect to the internet, at any time.  We could, not every day but often enough to post most of what you see below.   

There is one last thing I want to mention before ending this post and that would be the food.  Shannon our cook, a true chef really, performed magic in the galley every day.  The food was incredible, 5-star quality.  

I was up early every morning, always between 4 and 5. And always the first arrive in the dining room.  After saying good morning to Shannon who was always baking bread at that time, I would be greeted with a hot cup of coffee.  And soon thereafter, a baking sheet right out of the oven would arrive in front of me with an offering of the cookies-of-the-day.  Either that or muffins so hot I’d have to wait 5 minutes for them to cool.  That was my early morning routine. Not occasionally but every day! 

How many people do you know baking their own hamburger buns.  She even does that too.

Sunday afternoon as we arrived back in port, the entire crew of 6 lined up on deck to bid us farewell.  Shannon was there and when it was my turn for goodbyes, I gave her a big hug and whispered, “Shannon, I’ll miss you tomorrow morning.”

Mike