At last - a whole day at sea!!! This morning we slept in until after 8am!!! Wow!!! After brekky we went to the Art Auction where we had champagne but then decided not to participate - we have too many at home waiting to be framed! So then we went to the trivia game where we scored the second highest!!! We went to lunch and then back to our stateroom for a 2 hour nap!! Tom wandered out on the deck in the gale force winds. I just watched as the ship smoothly saile...

At last - a whole day at sea!!! This morning we slept in until after 8am!!! Wow!!! After brekky we went to the Art Auction where we had champagne but then decided not to participate - we have too many at home waiting to be framed! So then we went to the trivia game where we scored the second highest!!! We went to lunch and then back to our stateroom for a 2 hour nap!! Tom wandered out on the deck in the gale force winds. I just watched as the ship smoothly saile...

What a dreadful day weatherwise!!! The first thing we had to do was fix one of our tours - they had booked us on the wrong one. After that we had to rescue our washing because it had been locked in the laundry overnight!!! Then we had brekky. My tour was booked to leave at 9.30am with assembly in the theatre beforehand, so off I went. We were taken ashore in tenders and by the time we arrived in Newport it was absolutely pouring!! We boarded the coach and drove,...

This morning was soooooo long!! We slept in, had a leisurely breakfast and then packed ourselves up. Tom went to the camera shop around the corner and found that they usually like 4 hours to transfer photos to a CD, but they said it would be done by 1pm, and it was!!! We checked out at noon and moved our luggage to the foyer, where we waited until 1pm - then our doorman got us a cab that took us to the wharf. We were there just before 1.30pm and it was already c...

Today we took it easy. After brekky we walked down to the subway and worked out how to obtain tickets using our credit card and a touch screen. We caught the subway down to City Hall and walked over to Ground Zero where we took photos and read all all the information boards. They have a list of all the heroes, including those on the plane that crashed in a paddock. It was 45 mins late leaving the airport, otherwise it would have been successful in its mission. W...