Hi everyone! Last night was the Brown & Keene/LCT cocktail party and even though Ngaire wasn't there, we could still feel her presence! Marcie had Patrick make me a nametag that said "Not Quite Ngaire", which got quite a few laughs!! It was really fun meeting the B&K clients that don't post or only read the board. EVERY person there was so wonderful! I hope some of them do start posting as it was such a great group of people.

Marcie introduced me with a fantastic poem written by our lovely bard, Tom! Marcie also had brought gifts for me from Ngaire, how they managed this, I will never know!! My gifts included a gold shoe, a lovely engraved pen and a porcelin TEA POT!!!!! It was the cutest thing I have ever seen. Of course, we had to explain to the non posters that we award virtual teapots to each other and I think that they didn't quite understand how "different" we can be!! :eek:

Dinner was great again last night, we had to tables of 6 next to each other in Compass Rose. I had Prime Rib which was very good. Mark and I were both discussing how very wonderful the food has been so far. We ate in La Veranda with Marcie, Tom, Joanna and Tony 2 nights ago and it was SUPERB! We all decided that it was one of our favorite meals of the trip.

Mark, Todd and I went to Pisa yesterday and of course I took the obligatory (sp) picture of Mark holding up the tower :) Then we had a piece of pizza in Pisa!

Today was supposed to be St. Tropez but due to high winds, we are anchored at Sanuray Sur Mer. If it gets a little nicer, we may tender ashore later on. This is the first drop of rain I have seen on this trip. So far, the skys have been blue and the sun has been beaming.

I really miss everyone and I can't wait to catch up on the posts when I get home! I keep feeling like I am missing something.

xoxo