Sharon in AZ

Good afternoon! Thank you for the Fleet Report and Daily Rich. Thanks to everyone who contributes to the Daily. DGD spent the weekend and I made all her favorite foods, including strawberry ice cream. It turned out extra good. DM had a doctors appointment this morning, then we went shopping and then lunch. Annie @marshhawk, we also went to Red Lobster mostly because I had a free dessert for my birthday I wanted to use. All was good, saving my dessert for later—I got the cheesecake. It was hard getting back into the groove with DM, I haven’t seen her in a month and she had a lot of stuff for me to do for her. It’ll get done but I haven’t even caught up with my own stuff yet. 😉. And she wants to see her younger sister and BIL soon. They recently moved to a new retirement center which is really close. This sister has a lot of health issues and was recently in the hospital for 5 weeks after a fall. There were 13 siblings and now only 3 are left, all girls. Maxine @AncientWanderer -wow on your bee sting! I have been thinking about you, especially since San Francisco was the port of the day a few days ago. Great memories! I hope you are better now and enjoying your new grand baby. Thank you to everyone who posted pictures of today’s port. It looks like a beautiful island. Have a great day everyone!

Beautiful!

Congratulations on adopting Monty! And what a great name, actually a nickname, for him. Isn’t it funny how people choose pet names? It took us days to name Blue. And one day I looked at him and said that he had a blue cast to his skin (he’s hairless), and said Blue! That’s it, plus it’s also my favorite color. Would love pictures of your new family member!

Happy Birthday Carol! Enjoy your special day! Prayers for Sam’s recovery. Enjoy having your grandson staying with you. 🍰🎉🎂🎊🧁🍾🎈

Wow! I am beyond overwhelmed by all the Birthday wishes from my Daily friends. Thank you so much! You all are the best! I’m having a great Birthday. Craig took me to lunch. Our favorite pizza place closed, they never recovered after the shutdown, so we went to our second favorite place. Mine is called the Tuscany. Sausage, portobello mushrooms, onions, fennel, olives. Craig’s usual Margherita. @USN59-79 Can you explain about your eye meds? Are you taking a tablet along with the regular injections? My DH has it and I’m curious. It runs in his family, some have it worse than others, so it might not be the same type as yours. Right now he’s on special vitamins. BTW, I would love to try fish head soup, just never had the opportunity. But I think I’d skip eating the eyes. I’ve heard that the meat in the fish cheeks is really good. @marshhawk & @dfish — I like Spam but I don’t eat it very often. It’s good in fried rice. I also love love love those little Vienna sausages in the little can. I try not to eat those too often either. When I was a child my DM would make me a Vienna sausage sandwich on buttered soft white bread. Yum. I’ve tried Vegamite, but it’s not my thing.

Thank you Mr VMax! Happy to hear you and DW enjoyed the sparkling wine that we couldn't due to Craig's covid isolation and taste buds. He did enjoy his Negroni's though! You disembarked today, I need to catch up on your "Live From" and see how it went. Ours was super smooth.

A very early good morning! It’s 4:30 am here. Still can’t sleep more than 4 hours, so instead of tossing and turning I decided to read the Daily. @grapau27 Graham, so happy that you are better after your injection! Great news. I hope everyone has a great Friday!

Sandi, thank you for the Birthday wishes! If you originate at Heathrow you shouldn’t have a problem if you arrive early enough, our problems were mostly changing terminals for our connecting flights. We spoke with someone at our hotel in Barcelona who flew directly from Heathrow and he didn’t have any problems. I’m sorry about your DH still having to stay in isolation. It’s crazy that he’s still testing positive. Does he feel better? Well, that all makes sense and I hope it improves and that more people want jobs. Yes, I feel better but still can’t sleep more than 4 hours. Thank you for the Birthday wishes!

Good evening! I'm late, very late, but have been trying to catch up with Daily family news -- just so much to comment on and I don't want to miss anyone but I probably will so please forgive me...... @VMax1700 -- Mr VMax! Happy Birthday!! and on the Oosterdam, so wonderful! @Quartzsite Cruiser -- Lenda, so good to hear that DH is home and doing exercises. I worry that will be my DH someday, he has terrible back issues and it runs in his family, unfortunately. Many family members have had back surgery including his sister. @StLouisCruisers -- Sandi, so happy you are out of covid jail and hoping DH is out as I type this. Happy Birthday to your DD, it's mine also, she picked a lovely day to be born. @kazu -- Jacqui, what a mess with your purse and phone! Criminy! I'm hoping you get your replacement very quickly and I'm sure you can transfer all info to your new phone even though the old one is damaged. Have a great time on your long weekend. It's okay to cry. It's okay to have a heavy heart. @dfish -- Debbie, I love the blonde! @Crazy For Cats -- Jake, Bon Voyage! And Happy Birthday to your DH! @bennybear -- Brenda, I was saddened to read that your DH has a melanoma. Hopefully it was caught early and he gets clear margins quickly. I worked for a doctor once who repaired facial skin ca after Moh's surgery so I know how important it is to do a skin check. @grapau27 -- Graham and @VictOriann -- Ann Graham, sorry I'm late in responding, but we did go through Heathrow. It was horrible, but we made it on the plane to Phoenix thank goodness. I was really stressed out for about an hour after getting on the plane, even the flight attendants were concerned about me. They kept asking me if I was okay -- WELL, no I wasn't okay, I ran just to get on that plane after being in an eternal security line going from terminal to terminal! One commented about my blood pressure and that I could have a second glass of wine. It just took me a long time to get over it, plus British Airways changed our seats on us but at least we were together (one in front of the other) at window seats. AND then once on the plane, it didn't leave for another hour and a half! Due to a "tug" that moves the plane from it's spot because it can't back up by itself. Then worrying that we will miss our next connection. Criminy! Sorry, I'm just venting. I have some "not's" and some "do's" for the next international flight. Ann, don't stress too much about Heathrow, the one good thing is that they do have staff going through the security lines calling out flights and getting you pushed ahead if need be. That's the only way we made it on our flight. I know a lot has been said about the airlines but from this experience it seemed to be the airport staff or lack of and staffing issues. We had many security check points that had numerous lanes, but only a few were open and many were closed, this with a long line of passengers, a really long line of passengers. We got wrong information many times, getting in wrong lines and wondering if we were in the right line, finally realizing that we were in the wrong line then asking a uniformed airport agent where to be and getting wrong information, then asking again and then getting in the correct line. Signage was horrible. Sheesh! To me that is not the airlines fault. And I know we weren't the only passengers having problems. I hope everyone has a good night and a super weekend!

A very early Good Morning and Happy Thursday! Ever since we’ve been home I’ve been struggling with sleep due to jet lag and can’t seem to sleep more than 4 hours at night with my usual afternoon nap. So, I’ve been in a fog and am very behind on the Daily. My body thinks night is day and day is night. I didn’t have this problem when we arrived in Barcelona and in the past have been able to recover faster. Oh well, eventually I’ll get back to normal. I’m on my iPad and can’t type as well as I can on my phone so I’ll try and post again later but wanted to wish— Roy @rafinmd the Happiest of Birthdays!!

Good afternoon everyone from home! Just a short check in to say that we arrived home safely after a very long day of traveling, approximately 25 hours from beginning to end, some of it due to flight delays and most of it because we have to take an extra flight to get to Tucson. We left Venice airport at 8:15 am and got home at 11:30 pm home time. Working on unpacking and laundry. We did use the hotel laundry and I’ll just say that we are so fortunate on HAL to have free laundry. Have a great day everyone! We boarded our Venice to London flight the old fashioned way. A delightful and delicious chocolate mousse on the flight. My pre dinner cocktail. I don’t remember the name. It was good. BTW, I was watching Rocket Man with subtitles. Subtitles really help me if there’s background noise. It was a good movie.

I faxed my shareholder information for our past cruise beginning June 1st and received a confirmation email that it had been credited about 2 weeks later.

Good evening from Venice! I can’t believe this is our last night here. And I can’t believe how much I love this place. I was able to take a short nap, clean up and pack before going to our Altana for a glass of wine. Right now we are back at Alla Strega, an old place from before that we are happy is still open. This is our third time here. It’s lovely. We like to eat in the courtyard. Those really are grapes. Thank goodness our flight is at 11:00 am. I have a multitude of pictures that I haven’t shared so I’m going to post more when I get home. I’ll try to check in between flights. Dreading London…… Have a good evening everyone!