One of 4 Sea Days

Last night was a remarkable evening. Dennis Gyllenhaal called to catch up, (my phone is on Airplane/data and roaming is turned off (it must have been via internet somehow) and we are on a ship off the coast of Central America - Costa Rica. We shared dinner with a couple living in Chicago. The man (Jay Miller) mentioned his dad worked for Boeing in Wichita, Kansas and making conversation, I mentioned Kay Wallick, and it turns out they were very good friends and his first marriage was t one of Jay’s very good friends. I mentioned I was an OT, and the wife, (Madeline Schneider), now a CPA in Chicago, went to KU OT school from 1971-1975, where Nelwyn Patti Pitts Longfield Gyllenhaal went to OT school for the first two years 71-72, before she transferred to WU. Crazy coincidence to be sure. We are all more connected than we imagine at first glance. We had brunch in the Wintergarten, played Baggo, Trivia, (didn’t win) did a bridge tour, and took a Salsa class and… Denny a nap. Tonight at dinner we shared a table for 6, and again won the jackpot. We again had dinner with Jay Miller and Madaline Schneider, and a couple from Canada, Betyl and Bent Hudson who live in Collingwood, ON, L9y 4X4, Canada, which is a reportedly a small walking town near amazing lakes and waterways. They like to camp, have camped in Moab, and have been to Lake Powell, and rented a run about on which to explore Lake Powell.Læs mere