Time Flies When You're Having Fun!

August 23, 2024 

My How Time Flies When You're Having Fun!

OK, OK, I have an excuse for not writing for two and a half months: I had covid and the aftereffects have hung on for a month. I have no energy at all and sometimes don’t feel much like eating or doing anything. I THINK I’m getting better, though.

I must be getting better if I am doing this blog!

Our plans for Australia are sort of cast in stone: We’re staying with friends once we get to SYD for 4 days+/-, then going to Greg & Yolanda’s for a few days, then the four of us hop on a plane—well, “hopping on” implies a quick trip to the airport; nope, it’s a 3-hour drive. At least! —to Hobart, Tasmania. We’ll spend two night each on Bruny Island, Freycinet National Park, Launceston, Cradle Mountain National Park, and Hobart before returning to SYD where we will spend the night and hopefully get on an airplane back to Tucson the next day. We’ll have a busy almost-three-weeks!

The Montreal to New York plans are a lot more fluid. All we have planned for is what to do for two days in Montreal, then we get onboard Quest for 12 days. We have a lot of OBC (on board credit) so we’ll use that for tours. We have airplane tickets (first class, no less!) and a hotel room pretty close to the docking place for Quest. Similar in LA (actually Long Beach) where we’ll be staying in the Queen Mary.

Willie the Bear will be going with us on both cruises (assuming I don’t forget him as I did the Gila Monster on our Route 66 trip!

And I have learned that a new thing on cruise ships is hiding rubber duckies! Yes, the rubber duckies that float in your kid’s or grandkid’s tub at bathtime. But some of these people have more time than most people and they decorate—I mean DECORATE—their duckies! Here’s an example:

I’ll probably take some on the Australia cruise ‘cause it sounds like fun! Most people apparently attach a small card with some info on it, like these:

As I said, sounds like fun!

I’ll try to be more faithful now that it is only 28 days until our first cruise and 95 days until the Sydney cruise.

G’Day, Mate!