The only thing Ngaire has failed to mention is the parties she has or is hosting. Pearl Mesta II she is.

The second night out she and Ken hosted a Brown and Keene Travel cocktail party. Tonight they are hosting the LCT cocktail party in their suite, and later as we cruise the Coral Sea, she has offered to host a party there for my lovely better half, who's birthday it will be. She and Anthony, the Dining Room manager who was a headwater on the Diamond five years ago - our first RSSC cruise - have arranged another delightful dinner party also in Pat's honor - with the Captain, of course! In addition to being the TA with the mostest, Ngaire is the hostest with the bestest too!

Margo, thanks for the great news from home - we've been hearing good things from our (other) west coast, via newspaper and various internet sites, but nothing real definitive. And getting e-mail to work is not all that easy either. But we survive, gratiously!