Monday, May 17, 2010

HOME

Well, we made it.  We got home Friday night and we are trying to unpack.  Strange, but when we unpack, our house gets messy.  So, as soon as the suitcases, and the broken box, get emptied, we will try to remember where in the house these things go.  And....where in the world to put the new stuff.

Well, it is sort of like Christmas finding stuff we bought 5 months ago. 

Duane still has a bad cough, so we are going to the doctor tomorrow.  That is what will fill a lot of our time, you know, checkups, dentists.  Back to the old routine, which wasn't so bad.

Thanks for following along with us. 

Thursday, May 6, 2010

WE ARE ON A LAND CRUISE

We are now taking a land cruise and are docked in Laughlin, Nevada.  Our first port was Orange, California where we took an excursion to Arleen's sister's house.  The excursion included lots of fun games and some homework.  We then continued our cruise to Laughlin, where we are remaining on the "ship" and Arleen is spending time in the casino, while Duane is recuperating in the room.  As soon as Arleen had made the required contribution to the port authority, ie. Casinos, we will continue on our land cruise.  We expect that to be around Tues. and we will be home about Thursday.

As for the end of our water cruise, in Vancouver we went ashore and saw a trolley that was a free shuttle to someplace.  Well, free got Arleen's attention and we took the shuttle.  It was to the Capilano Suspension Bridge and Park.  The driver gave us a lovely tour of the city on the way to the park.  We decided to see the park and had a lovely day.  We have no pictures, since we did not know we were going anywhere, so we didn't take our camera.  Sorry, because it is a cool place.  It has one very long suspension bridge over a canyon and several small ones between trees, like a canopy tour.  Strange as it sounds, we met some people who live close to our new friends on the ship.  And they live in a pretty small community.  Small world.

The next day we docked in Seattle and disembarked about 1/3 of the remaining passengers, including Juby and Tom.  We helped them get all their stuff off the ship.  We didn't really want to do anything else in Seattle.

Then 2 more sea days and we arrived in LA for our "land cruise"

Thanks for following our adventures.   Until our next one

Bye