Hi Honey I’m Home

Mary Lee and I are back from the grand voy­age!  We had a won­der­ful time in New Orleans and quite by acci­dent bumped into what is the sec­ond largest fes­ti­val behind Mardi Gras while there.  The French Quar­ter Fes­ti­val was in full swing Fri­day, Sat­ur­day and Sun­day prior to our sail­ing.  We spent days sam­pling local cui­sine, great music and beau­ti­ful weather.  There were more than a dozen stages set up through­out the area with so much musi­cal tal­ent you could not pos­si­bly take it all in.…  At the same time many local restau­rants had food tents set up so that you could sam­ple many dif­fer­ent offer­ings at a very rea­son­able price.  I’m told the city was expect­ing as many as a mil­lion vis­i­tors over the week­end.  Sat­ur­day after­noon the River­front was so crowded that we were not able to walk through the park, we actu­ally had to walk down the trol­ley tracks to move from one stage to the next.  I’ve never seen more peo­ple in one place in all my life.

Sat­ur­day evening, walk­ing down Bour­bon Street on our way back to the hotel, the peo­ple were wall to wall, music blar­ing, police on horse­back and beads rain­ing down from the bal­conies above, we were amazed.  As we sailed away late Sun­day After­noon the party was still in full swing, but we were actu­ally ready for a rest.  Spent the next 2 days at sea before dock­ing first in Costa Maya, Mex­ico and the fol­low­ing day in Santo Tomas de Castillo, Guatemala.  Then 2 more relax­ing days at sea before dock­ing first in Aruba and then the fol­low­ing day in Cura­cao, where we actu­ally docked in town right next to the float­ing bridge!  Another 2 rest­ful days at sea and we arrived at our final port stop in Hamil­ton, Bermuda, then it was 2 more days at sea before we arrived home in Boston.  It was a great trip, met lots of new friends, saw many beau­ti­ful sights but it really was nice to be back home after 19 days away and trav­el­ing more than 7000 miles by car, plane and ship.  With that behind us we can now get back to the “Gray Lady” and move for­ward some more.….……

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