The Bistro- Off topic and fun posts!

[rafinmd]

Stay safe, Keith.

 

In 2010 I was one of the very last passengers to leave a Cruise West ship before the line went our of business.  I got to the ship by train and ferry.  On August 22, 2010, the sun went down up as the Canadian was in Western Ontario on the way to Winnipeg.

 

 

Roy

[Roland4]

8 hours ago, Keith1010 said:

This type of weather is on it's way for us today.

 

 

Hopefully not to the extremes that some parts of the Greater Toronto Area got. From Friday to this morning, some areas in the northwest got as much as 200MM (that's 8 inches!!) of rain!! We are further to the east and we got about an inch overnight last night.

[Keith1010]

1 hour ago, Roland4 said:

Hopefully not to the extremes that some parts of the Greater Toronto Area got. From Friday to this morning, some areas in the northwest got as much as 200MM (that's 8 inches!!) of rain!! We are further to the east and we got about an inch overnight last night.

Flash flooding is forecasted for our area.  However where I used to live they  got the one in 1000 year. ( not a typo) rainfall.

 

Some parts got 15 inches of rain in 12 hours.

 

Keith. 

[Keith1010]

4 hours ago, rafinmd said:

Stay safe, Keith.

 

In 2010 I was one of the very last passengers to leave a Cruise West ship before the line went our of business.  I got to the ship by train and ferry.  On August 22, 2010, the sun went down up as the Canadian was in Western Ontario on the way to Winnipeg.

 

 

Roy

Thank you Roy.  
 

Great photo and I remember Cruise West.

 

Keith 

[oakridger]

1 hour ago, Keith1010 said:

Flash flooding is forecasted for our area.  However where I used to live they  got the one in 1000 year. ( not a typo) rainfall.

 

Some parts got 15 inches of rain in 12 hours.

 

Keith. 

 

So, where's our rain???  Dry as a bone here........😟

[Keith1010]

7 hours ago, oakridger said:

 

So, where's our rain???  Dry as a bone here........😟

This was us up until a few days ago.

 

No rain for 60+ days and we had fires in and outside our community more so than 2011 which was also a drought.

 

Hoping you get your rain too.  When I lived there between 1987 and 1991 it seems most years we were in a drought.  Ugh!

 

Keith

[Keith1010]

I wonder what "Kitty" is thinking.

 

Oh yes, when will the itineraries be ready so I can book my next Crystal Cruise?.  🤣

 

 

 

Keith

[rafinmd]

My sunrise today is from my one and only cruise on the Empress of the Seas.  August 23, 2019 was a sea day from Cozumel to Miami.

 

 

Roy

[Mr Luxury]

12 hours ago, Keith1010 said:

I wonder what "Kitty" is thinking.

 

Oh yes, when will the itineraries be ready so I can book my next Crystal Cruise?.  🤣

 

 

 

Keith

I hope the new Crystal is not going to be a catastrophe. 😁

[KenzSailing]

14 hours ago, Keith1010 said:

I wonder what "Kitty" is thinking.

 

 

 

 

"The Sushi Bar is at capacity?  OK, I'll wait, but I'm gonna be noisy about it."

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from a 2013 New England/Canada on MS Veendam.  It was taken August 24 before our arrival and disembarkation in Boston:

 

 

Roy

[KenzSailing]

 

OK, off topic cruise line, but this is for a lady in Texas:

 

 

 

Also, as a former altar boy, I must say I'm feeling especially tart deprived.

 

 

 

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise comes near the end of my 2018 Grand Alaska Panama trip.  On a cloudy August 25 Crystal Symphony made what I believe was Crystal's Inaugural call to Bimini:

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

9 hours ago, KenzSailing said:

 

OK, off topic cruise line, but this is for a lady in Texas:

 

Also, as a former altar boy, I must say I'm feeling especially tart deprived.

Point to ponder.  What does it mean to be off topic when the topic is off topic posts.  Doesn't that make it on topic, and doesn't being on topic make it off topic.

 

Roy

Edited August 25, 2022 by rafinmd

[BEAV]

3 hours ago, rafinmd said:

Point to ponder.  What does it mean to be off topic when the topic is off topic posts.  Doesn't that make it on topic, and doesn't being on topic make it off topic.

 

Roy

…and by the same token, are off OFF Broadway shows actually Broadway? 🤔

 

360 degrees of confusion? 🤔

[ctjon]

Especially since most Broadway shows/theaters are actually just off Broadway.

[Roland4]

1 hour ago, ctjon said:

Especially since most Broadway shows/theaters are actually just off Broadway.

I am certainly no expert, but in our various trips to NYC, I don't think we have ever been to a theatre that is "ON" Broadway!! On various Streets yes, but not actually ON Broadway! (Waiting patiently for Jim Brochu to jump in and correct me.🙂)

[KenzSailing]

 

Well, next month we'll be at the Longacre Theater (thee-a-tah.) Advertised as "between Broadway and 8th Avenue."  So definitely Broadwayish, and probably Broadway curious.

[ctjon]

I grew up in NYC and there was at least 1  but even then most were on the streets leading to BWAY

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from a 2015 trip with a Blount cruise from Maine to New Brunswick.  After a few cruise i spent a couple days with my cousin south of Montreal and this was taken on their farm:

 

 

Roy

[BEAV]

16 hours ago, Roland4 said:

I am certainly no expert, but in our various trips to NYC, I don't think we have ever been to a theatre that is "ON" Broadway!! On various Streets yes, but not actually ON Broadway! (Waiting patiently for Jim Brochu to jump in and correct me.🙂)

I’m hoping Jim will chime in too! 
 

Somehow I don’t think the term “on Broadway” literally means the play’s address is on Broadway. So hoping Jim can educate me on this! 😊

 

I just know my high school’s performance of “My Fair Lady”

was SO far off Broadway you could almost see the Golden Gate Bridge! 🙄

[ryndam]

40 minutes ago, BEAV said:

I’m hoping Jim will chime in too! 
 

Somehow I don’t think the term “on Broadway” literally means the play’s address is on Broadway. So hoping Jim can educate me on this! 😊

 

I just know my high school’s performance of “My Fair Lady”

was SO far off Broadway you could almost see the Golden Gate Bridge! 🙄

 

There are at least three live Broadway theaters with actual Broadway addresses:

 

Palace Theater: 1564 Broadway

Winter Garden Theater: 1634 Broadway

Broadway Theater: 1681 Broadway

 

https://broadwaydirect.com/theatre/palace-theatre/

https://shubert.nyc/theatres/winter-garden/

https://shubert.nyc/theatres/broadway/

 

Rob

[rafinmd]

19 hours ago, BEAV said:

I’m hoping Jim will chime in too! 
 

Somehow I don’t think the term “on Broadway” literally means the play’s address is on Broadway. So hoping Jim can educate me on this! 😊

 

I just know my high school’s performance of “My Fair Lady”

was SO far off Broadway you could almost see the Golden Gate Bridge! 🙄

I have a thought but hope @Out2See will chine in soon.

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

I do not have an August 27 sunrise so this is from August 24 (2010), again on VIA's Canadian on the way to one of Cruise West's final cruise.  That morning the Canadian was approaching Edmonton.

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from the same trip as the photo from my cousin's farm.  I returned from Montreal August 27-28, spending the night August 27 in Poughkeepsie as the train to New York arrives too late for a reliable connection to Baltimore.  This sunrise is from Poughkeepsie August 28, 2015:

 

 

Roy