Grand mosque Muscat Oman

Faces Mecca
Very spectacular
Opulent
Majestic in gold blue and ivory
Opera House

Grand Palace Muscat

No one lives here
Grand Mosque Abu Dhabi

Kinda like Taj Mahal
Part 2

Debai

Burj al Arab - hotel shaped like a sail
Gold and spice market
Debai #2

Dubai mall

Cane’s for lunch
Glenn bought me a ruby ring(for our 40th anniversary)
Watched the huge shark in the acqurium!
Day in Abu Dhabi

Not doing anything today except internet in the terminal.
Met Laura and Wayne.
Shopped a little
Good to be on line for a little bit
Changed rooms last night to an Inside room. Much smaller, but w areBaca selengkapnya
Mosque in Fujairah

Lunch

Typical UAE food lunch
Mutton (adult sheep)
4 Sea days

We are out in the Indian Ocean. We have 3 more sea days..thus very limited email WiFi opportunity.
Today, we attended a lecture on “trade routes in the Indian Ocean”. Very interesting.
We areBaca selengkapnya
Crossing the Equator

March 9, 2020
Crossing the equator in Indian Ocean
Darla and Rick plus Laura and Wayne
Darla ‘s birthday- perfect night, perfect dinner at Onda.
Refurbished NCL Spirit

Once we arrived on the newly refurbished NCL Spirit on Feb 14 in Italy, I was amazed by the transformation.
I loved the new “the Local”.
The pool area is very nice.
There is no viewing the BridgeBaca selengkapnya
Refueling in Seychelles

We couldn’t get off the Spirit.
Seychelles closed the port because of Coronavirus.
This is day 6 Sea Day in a Row
So a large barge arrived to refuel us. We hear that later tonight there will beBaca selengkapnya
Miscellaneous fotos

Wondering out in the Ocean, waiting to get to CapeTown
Playing LCR
Sunset
Capetown South Africa

Finally
Not allowed to get off
Hopefully leaving on March 24
16 SEA days

Wow, a lot has happen in the past 16 days. We were denied entry into Seychelles, Mauritius and Reunion.
So we made best of our sea days. We played a lot of LCR (left, center, right). I never won.Baca selengkapnya
Worship service

Glenn has lead several worship services.
We had services on Monday Wednesday and Friday.
I git everyone’s email address and stateroom information-just in case.
Cross stitch project

I worked on several projects this cruise.
I made friends with Christine the first day we left the hotel in Civitavecchia. She was one of the first to help us board. Well she asked to buy one of myBaca selengkapnya
NCL Evacuation

I said goodbye to Laura and Wayne
Then at 10:30 we heard on the stateroom that NCL was getting a charter flight
Suitcases out the door in 1 1/2 hours
I packed and even took a shower
We will haveBaca selengkapnya
At Capetown airport

Packed
Left the Spirit at 9:30pm
Went thru security check
Walked over to get luggage
Waiting to put luggage pod
Then.... on to the plane airbus 300
It’s waiting for us
Longest flight

We had 10.5 hour flight over Africa to Madrid. Then the plane was escorted over to the area for refueling. That took about 1 hour. The flight crew left and a new crew took over. The cleaning crew cameBaca selengkapnya
Arrival into MIA and then to DFW

Here is what I typed up and sent Karen, as soon as we landed at MIA.
Karen,
I write this as we are about 1.5 hours til landing in Miami on Monday 23march
We had 10.5 hour flight over Africa toBaca selengkapnya
My friends
