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Bon Voyage Annie and Chuck @catmando and @marshhawk

@StLouisCruisers That itinerary change would make a lot of people regret not getting Platinum Coverage. 🤯

@kazu Jacqui thanks for sharing the photo of the caviar lid. At least id doesn't have a Russe in big letters. I will check on origin next time before I order. Enjoy your cruise.

Good morning everyone. Thanks for the Daily reports @richwmn. I was a boss for a long time in my career and of course had a boss, I didn't own the company. We both love pasta but it is a rare treat usually at the holidays as we watch our carbs. I do have a gaudy pink and camo sweatshirt but it is up at the cabin. A good quote by Coelho. As Graham I like my Chow Mein with meat in it. A wonderful cocktail and I will pass on unattainable vino and instead finish my half bottle of Dehlinger 2013 Cabernet that I opened yesterday. Fakarava is on our intinerary for 2025 on the Konigsdam. I hope someone has some photos of the atoll. I have been following Bill and Mary Ann's blog on their current Volendam cruise and I am happy for them the experience is completely different from their world cruise on the Zuiderdam. Prayers for Edi @NextOne as she has her heart procedure today. @JazzyV I hope you are getting some relief from your pain. @smitty34877 I hope things are going better for you as we move through this week. Prayers for everyone in our group needing them and the people in war zones in Ukraine and Israel. Well we woke this morning and the panel on the double oven is kaput again. I have a card from an appliance repair company that did great work on my recall on my Bosch dishwasher so will call them today. I hate to have to shell out big bucks right when the propane bills will be picking up for the winter. I hope to work outside later today to cut back my Ostrich Ferns and start digging the holes for my daffodil bulbs that arrived over the weekend. I also am going to get my Calla Lilies dug and started to dry. Have a lovely day. Nancy Calla Lily from last year.

Thanks Lenda, I would pass too. I know what is in it to, I guess on the same scale as scrapple. When looking at the menus that Jacqui posted today the full English breakfast does have the mushrooms.

Jacqui, thanks for the photos and comments on the PG dinner. I saw that you had caviar and it is a favorite of mine. Do you recall seeing the origin of the caviar. I complained to HA in February for serving Russian caviar in the Pinnacle and all the while they were staging On Deck for a Cause for the Ukrainians. We ate it but it sure took a lot of joy out of it.

@grapau27 On BHBs there is a full English breakfast. It has the baked beans, two meats, eggs and the tomato. No mushrooms and what are the black things on the plate? If one wanted mushrooms with full English breakfast I am sure they could be added from the omelet station. I tried it once but it was too much for me.

Good morning everyone. I will celebrate International Cat Day even though I have no cats. I miss mine. I won't cut up my credit cards though I have managed them down to two. A strange quote. I think the hamburger pie recipes will be good and I look forward to them from @dfish Debbie. Pass on the strange cocktail today, mint and pumpkin pie spice? Thanks for researching these for us Dixie @summer slope. The wine sounds good today, thank you for finding these for us each day Ann @cat shepard. Thanks for the cares and celebrations reports @JazzyV. I hope you are feeling better Vanessa. Prayers for everyone in our group needing them. Special prayers for the family of Baby Murphy, @smitty34877 who really needs a break and the people of Ukraine and Israel who are in war zones. For International Cat Day a couple of photos. Have a nice day!

@57redbird I hope all goes well with your procedure on Wednesday. @ger_77 I hope you can avoid surgery for your torn rotator cuff. My late DH went through it 4 times. Throwing a suitcase into an overhead compartment and trying to tilt a large rock 3' + with a shovel caused them to blow out after first times done. @smitty34877prayers for you and your family.

Good morning. Thanks for the Daily Reports Rich. Sweetest Day is a good day to celebrate with a nice bottle of wine and a home cooked dinner. Our repair to the oven has worked so far. I have searched for a small interior oven and there is a nice Bosch model that isn't too breathtaking and a good independent company to install. Pass on the wrap, the cocktail looks fun and a good looking pinot noir. We have been near Devil's Island on the Volendam, HA made such an issue about Yellow Fever shots we just stayed aboard, it was stinking hot anyway. Great photo of the Volendam from the island @StLouisCruisers. Thanks for your photos also @Quartzsite Cruiser. @grapau27 thanks for your photos of your trip to Florida. @NextOneprayers for you as you prepare for your surgery. Prayers for everyone on our care list and the people under war conditions in Israel and Ukraine. Another day of football here. Ravens are the 9:30 game from London and John's Vikings are on at 1:00. Have a lovely day. Nancy

I loved the gifts you received on Wednesday. I guess HA is hearing the complaints that Grand cruises were no longer grand. We got no such gifts on our Grand South America in January. 2btimme

Good morning everyone. Thanks for the daily and fleet reports each day @richwmn. I recall the bald day too, nobody bald in my family. I'd love to have some sugar free egg custard for dessert, they make a good one on BHBs. I think Amazon has made the last minute shoppers life a lot easier. I love meatloaf and look forward to the recipes. When I lived in Maryland I would love Wegman's take and bake meatloaf, I haven't found a good substitute. Pass on the minty cocktail but the Entre du Mers SB looks like a winner. Thanks for the photos of Victoria Sandi and Lenda. We spent a couple of days there prior to our first Alaska cruise. Our chance to walk the city was complicated by my DS having to rent a car and return to the US to SEATAC to get her correct suitcase. What a mess and she said the line at the border was terrible. It was a beautiful day and I walked around the city proper, nothing picture worth and sadly never made it to Victoria. From now on we will book out of Seattle. The airfare differential was massive. Thanks for the Cares and Celebrations reports @JazzyV. I hope that you are getting some relief from your pain. I am happy to read that Tana's aide is working out. Prayers for the people of Israel and the people of Ukraine. My heart aches for all the horror caused in these war zones. Prayers for Baby Murphy and her family. I had planned on making a quick run to the store but it is absolutely miserable. Windy and rainy. Our experiment worked to get the touch panel on the double oven going. I don't know for how long. To complicate things we just can't buy any double oven. It has an interior depth slightly more than 24", most are more like 29". This house was built to have ADA hallways so I guess the choice for the shallow depth oven. There are few alternatives unless they are very expensive. John wants to get the cheap one ($2600 OUCH) and make it fit by fitting wood around it. I am not going to allow that and will search for some kind of shallower depth one. A good project for a rainy day. Have a nice Saturday. Nancy

@StLouisCruisers Sandi, we had three bookings. We had booked 2 21 day cruises last winter and then took advantage of another "deal" for the 10 day so we have three bookings. @Nickelpenny I doubt you will get soft clothes with more fabric softener. We line dry our clothes at the cabin because we run off solar. Our clothes are fairly stiff and it ttakes a lot of shaking to try to get some of the wrinkles out. We get really spoiled by tumble dried clothes, for the ease and the feel. Those line dried towels sure do absorb well though. I hope you can get a new dryer soon. John did some research on our oven with issues and one youtube said to run the self clean because sometimes it causes the panel to reset. We are cleaning it now, I usually wait for cool weather so it is perfect to do today.

Thanks for the Corfu photos @Heartgrove and @Mr. Boston. A beautiful place I would love to visit.

Good morning everyone, Thanks for the Daily Reports @richwmn. It is good to be a skeptic from time to time. John has some silly things he says from time to time. As a late bloomer to get on with my life there is an awful lot of truth in EE Cummings' quote. Pass on the cocktail, pass on the fussy cod dish but the Toscana sounds like a lovely wine. The wine dinner I went to a couple of weeks ago had Jackson Family Wines as an extra treat they poured their specialty line of wines. They poured a Terlato importers Toscana. I liked it a lot so I bought 6 bottles. I got it home and looked it up on Wine Advocate and it was 92 points and keep until 2030, probably the reason I liked it so much it is more Merlot than Sangiovese, better yet it was $19 off from usual retail. Thanks for the lovely photos @StLouisCruisers. Thanks for the Cares list @JazzyV, Vanessa I hope you can get some help for your pain. @mamaofami I am sorry your DH is back in the hospital and to top it off your smoke alarm going off. Please take care of yourself too. @smitty34877 I hope things are going smoothly with Tana's new aide and her health is stable. Prayers for Israel and Ukraine, so much loss of life and homes. Prayers for everyone needing them. We had a nice day yesterday driving about and stopping at my favorite restaurant in town for their happy hour, great $5 a glass sauvignon blanc and they have the best calamari. Plus no need to cook dinner. Our oven is probably on its' last legs. It started making its' beeping sound and two error messages that indicated the mother board for the key pad had failed. I said lets reboot it tomorrow by flipping the circuit breaker. No need, John hit bake this morning and the display started working again. It is 21 years old and it gets a lot of use in this house. We probably need to start thinking of getting a new one because we can't have it going kaput at Thanksgiving. A windy and rainy day but the forecast shows nice weather for next week, hopefully I can get my ferns cut back and my calla lilies dug and dried. I bought Narcissus and Tulips and they are due too. The ground I plant the Narcissus in is so hard the ground where the Tulips go is soft. I hope all the rain makes digging those daffodil holes easier. We got great news from HA stockholder benefit department. Since we are on 3 different bookings for our Eurodam cruise we get $100 onboard credit for first booking and two $250 for our second two bookings, That put a huge dent in the price of the shares. Have a lovely Friday! Nancy

Happy Birthday @cruising sister! Good morning everyone. Thanks for the Daily Reports. I love cookbooks and I have some absolute favorite recipes in several of them. Saving is important no matter how old one is. My Dad was an old farmer. A fun quote. Today's soup sounds tasty, pass on the bitter cocktail but today's Rose' looks good too, Thanks for researching these for us each day. @marshhawk safe travels to Italy and Bon Voyage a little early, I recall you usually go dark near cruising time. 🍾✈️⛴️ @RMLincoln great news on finding a realtor and having a plan for selling. Prayers for everyone on our care list. @mamaofami I hope that Sam is in rehab. @HAL Sailer prayers for your DH. Prayers for the people in Israel and Ukraine as they face more uncertainty and attacks. We got a lot done when we had a warmer, sunny spell yesterday. Our Christmas tree is now in the garage, I forgot it was 9' tall, we didn't decorate last year because we started a cruise on December 27th. I sprayed Wet & Forget on the decks, once we had that October heat wave the green on the deck just exploded. I also got poison ivy spray sprayed all over the property, there were still some green leaves so I hope it works. Another gray day and we are caught up so we will go to the local wholesale green house and see if they have second mums on their rack 5 for $10 and pick up some prescriptions. Then lunch some place as John likes to get out of the house. Have a wonderful day. Nancy

Good morning everyone. A happy morning here because there actually a visible sunrise. Thanks for the Daily and Fleet Reports @richwmn. A day to celebrate girls, I have 2 sisters I dearly love and some beautiful nieces. Emergency nurses have earned their day for all the hard, gory work they have to do. No parties here today. @StLouisCruisers, @Cruzin Terri and @Quartzsite Cruiser thanks for the lovely photos of Keil. A thought provoking quote by Marcus Aurelius. A mindful way to live, I could never be in the moment that much, especially with my wandering mind. Pass on today's meal and cocktail, cocktail probably would be great with Maker's Mark. Pass on the unattainable SB, plenty of great value ones at Costco. @JazzyV thanks for starting us off each morning keeping up up to date on celebrations and prayers needed. Prayers for the war torn and suffering countries of Israel and Ukraine, for no fault of their own but caused by hate. @RMLincoln I am glad that you are moving along with your moving process. I went through it when my DH passed away and I decided to return to MI though I set my own timeline. @mamaofami I hope that you are taking care of your DH at the rehab today. @HAL Sailer Prayers for your DH and you while he is in the hospital. @Haljo1935 I hope your chiropractor visit gives you some relief. @Heartgrove thinking of you on the one year anniversary of your DB's passing/ We are planning on working outside. It was sunny at sunrise but it has now turned cloudy, It is supposed to reach 62 here but I really doubt it. Today John is going to hitch up the red cart to the lawn tractor and haul the 5 big bags of potting mix around the house to store under the deck for the winter and then load up our 7' Christmas tree onto it and drive it up to the garage. We store our Christmas trees undecorated so just like a bare tree. We will store it in the garage until before Thanksgiving when I will put it up. We will probably be beginning our drive to Fort Lauderdale on December 27 so I picked the easiest of my two trees to decorate this year. It has boxes of red and gold ornaments so it is easy to plop them in the packages. We are facing another weekend of weather as we had last weekend. High winds and possible 2" of rain. Have a nice day. Nancy @Nickelpenny Happy birthday a day late, I am sorry I missed it. 🎂

Good morning and thanks to Ada Lovelace and her work as the basis of computing, calculators and computers made my poor math skills much easier now. I will celebrate Angel Food Cake Day today minus the Tarantula. I am glad the US pulled the plug on the metric conversion many years ago. Thanks for the beautiful photos of Wellington today @StLouisCruisers. I will pass on the high carb pasta, will have a pork chop tonight with a lovely Dehlinger Pinot Noir Renatus 2018, left over from my dinner last night. I will pass on the strange herbal sweet cocktail and probably the pinot would be okay. @grapau27 I would love to have some of the steaks you have been enjoying. Prayers for everyone on our care list and the people of Israel and Ukraine. Prayers for Baby Murphy and her family, the pain they must be going through. We are heading for another color drive today, more toward Lake Michigan this time preceded by a trip to Costco and the bank. It is 46 degrees and I am not ready to work outside in this cold. Have a lovely day!

@0106 you covered a lot of area in your tour. Honfleur and Bayeux aren't that close. Ioved your photos.

Good morning everyone and Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! @smitty34877 I am happy to see that you are getting closer to having heat in the house again. @richwmn Thanks for the daily and fleet reports each day. John brought up a curious event as he rode with me to my mammogram appointment just to get out of the house. He said it seemed like it was deja vu from last year when I got back to the truck. I agreed because it was cold and lousy last year just like it was today. Fire prevention is very important, our local noon news just has a story about 2 children killed in a house fire. Check those smoke detectors. Leif Erickson is an important day to celebrate, interesting that it is the same day America was discovered by Columbus. Indigenous people all fit in the mix with these 2 days. An interesting quote today. @Quartzsite Cruiser Thank you for the photos of today's port in Korea. I will pass on the lentils, the lemonade but the Apalta red wine looks like a winner. @JazzyV I sure hope that you feel better soon. Prayers for everyone on our care list and that @mamaofami that your DH gets out of the hospital today. Prayers for the people of Israel and the hostages and the people of Ukraine. Sad day in Baltimore today with the Ravens collapsing and the Orioles getting skunked too. John's Vikings lost too. It is partly sunny and partly rainy today. Almost a full week of expected rain and cool weather. I was up late and up early today so a nap may be in order this afternoon. Have a lovely Monday and a shout out to all in our group who are enjoying life on cruise ships. Nancy

Thanks for taking us along, wonderful review. That salad should have never been plated, sorry about that.

@Quartzsite Cruiser Lenda, thanks for the lovely photos of Split especially the crowd comparisons. I am sure the crowds were greatly reduced by 2020 but I would they are back to 2019 levels once more.

Good morning everyone. Thanks for the Daily and Fleet Reports @richwmn. Universal music day is probably universally celebrated, music is so important to enjoyment of life's moments. A good quote by Barrie. Thanks for the lovely photos of Split today @StLouisCruisers. Pass on all three of the comestibles today. Thanks for researching them for us each day. @mamaofami I hope Sam is released today and does well in rehab. @JazzyV thanks for keeping us up to date with the events in our groups' lives. Prayers for those needing them, and those in war zones, Israel and Ukraine. We have lucked out today as both of our football games will be carried by CBS here, my early Ravens game and John's later Vikings game. It is sunny but cold, especially after having 80s a few days ago so it will be a day of football from early to late. To top that off I have the four crab cakes I made and froze for dinner tonight. Easy peasy. I had a good day playing the horse races and ended up in the win column including covering my expensive Daily Racing Form downloads. I will be late tomorrow as I have an 8:30 mammogram, thanks to the ladies in the group that gave me the reminder to book. Only one more thing to tick off the list after that is the RSV vaccine. Happy cruising to all in our group at sea right now. Have a lovely Sunday. Nancy

Bon Voyage @WannaSea and @Horizon chaser! 🍾

Fabulous photos and great reviews of your days. You have been blessed with beautiful weather. Thanks.