Marc is right, we are slowly readjusting to the real world after being on the Voyager for 63 days. We had a fantastic time, celebrating Marc's 60th birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas and our 25the wedding anniversary. The ship and the crew were in tip top shape. The crew all seemed so happy and I saw several examples of supervisory personnel doing special things for crew members, really nice to see. I don't have much to add, as Marc had pretty much covered it, but did want to add one tidbit.

As Marc posted earlier, we got to have dinner in CR one night with all the Regent Signature "Orchestra" members. (Seems silly to say Orchestra as there were only 5 of them, but that is what they were being called. Margaret had told us they had all come on "new" in Rome, and had never played together. They were just fantastic from the beginning. The bass player and drummer are from the US, the Saxophonist from the Ukraine and the Guitarist and Pianist form Minsk. The latter two didn't speak the best english (this was their first contract ever) but were still so sweet and fun to get to know. I think anyone of them could be a headliner in their own right, they were each that good. They are all fantastic musicians and we enjoyed hearing them play. We probably listened to them more than all the other bands in the past cruises combined. We were enjoying listening to them and getting to know them so much that I asked Margaret about having dinner with them one night if we could fit it in with their schedule. Long story short we had to go all the way up to the General Manager (Anatoli) who arranged it in no time. We had an absolutely fantastic dinner. They had never been asked or been able to eat on one of the guest restaurants before and they seemed to really appreciate being asked. (Marc just came up to me and he looked like something was wrong. I asked if he was OK, he said yes, but it is time for trivia and he is missing it) They really liked being able to order anything they wanted (that new menu is so terrific) and dining "like the guests do." When we were finished with dinner, the waiter (Tri, who is the absolute best of the best) brought out the little tiered tray with the petit fours on it. One of them had obviously never seen this before and said "Oh wow....appetizers before dessert" Marc and I cracked up and I don't think I will ever think of them in any way other than dessert appetizers! Any way it was a very memorable dinner among many. One of them told us later that two fellows from Minsk were so overwhelmed they had never eaten such an elegant meal in their lives so very special for them as well.

Hard to believe all the places and countries we went to in 63 days, just a very incredible cruise.