Barbara Thompson

Saturday, November 9, 2024 Keith took this on our way to breakfast. We have a great location on deck 6, aft. When we come out of our hall there is a bank of elevators that no one uses, because there are about 14 rooms in this area. We can pop right up to deck 14 […]

Friday, November 8, 2024 We slept way in after being up very, very late last night. We set our clocks forward an hour today, which kept surprising me all day – the opposite of best-day-of-year. My phone didn’t switch times, so I repeated was off an hour. Getting up at almost 10, then napping didn’t

Thursday, November 7, 2024 Keith, too! Keith, too, went to Africa. We were in Tunisia. I said, “We’re in Africa,” a couple dozen times today. We started at the Tunis Kasbah, or government center. There were a lot of Tunisian flags flying. It is a red flag with a crescent and star on it that

Black Wednesday, November 6, 2024 We woke up to the horror of the election results. I just wrote some strong opinions that I deleted and am going to keep to myself. We had breakfast late, and Keith was undercover as a staff member. He forgot to wear his little hat. It took us a long

Tuesday, November 5, 2024 We visited Cagliari on the island of Sardinia today. It was a beautiful 72 and sunny. For the first time that I remember, we did not sign up for an excursion. We set an 8am alarm, but I couldn’t get woken up until 9. We lingered over breakfast and finally walked

Monday, November 4, 2024 We are aboard the Island Princess for 10 days. A couple days ago we got an email saying that we had been upgraded from an inside cabin (cheap and dark) to a window room. I didn’t think I would care if I had a window – the example picture showed the

Sunday, November 03, 2024 Jet lag is going on here. I slept several half hours last night while listening and rewinding The Imitation Game. We landed about 11am in Rome, and figured out how to get to Rome train station. They don’t really seem to want to give you all the information you need. We

Saturday, November 2nd, 2024 We got a credit card that lets us into airport lounges (thanks Daniel). I was so excited. The first one we went to said we couldn’t come there until 3 hours before our flight. Since we had a 5 hour layover, that wasn’t yet. We went downstairs to try a different

Friday, November 1, 2024 We went to Cub to buy crackers on the night before Halloween and I insisted Keith get another punkin. He likes carving and for $6 he could have another one. He said he did NOT have any time – so much working and doing all the other things, but I insisted

Thursday, October 31, 2024 It was POURING when I went to work this morning – so hard I could hardly see the road. It rained until about 9, then it changed to snow. Obviously. Or not! It was 80 degrees TWO days ago. We went out convertibiling. Why can’t the weather just be nice to