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  • JudyfromMoody
Oct – Dec 2024

NYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

To celebrate LIFE, we are taking a 90+ day cruise originating NYC on Oct 21 to Barcelona, Canary Island, Lisbon, Morocco, down to Angola, S Africa, up Madagascar, thru Mauritius, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Brunei, Philippines, Japan & Taiwan. Read more
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    October 20, 2024
    JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    New York City birthday

    October 20, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 61 °F

    Happy birthday to me In NY CITY

    Our 10:55pm was delayed several hours because of the rains. The inbound United plane was diverted to San Salvador before it arrived in Guatemala.

    We both fell asleep most of the flight. They even served us a meal. The flight attendants wished me Happy Birthday! I listened to my music.

    We landed around 8:00am. Customs and immigration went smoothly. We caught an Uber to our hotel. And we got into our room by 12:30 and took a nap.

    We walked down to the pier. It was an absolutely beautiful day. Blue sky. We walked to Target and back to the pier to watch NCL BREAKAWAY leave.

    Amelia and Jim arrived in the afternoon. We also talked to a women and her daughter    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 1 Leaving New York City

    October 21, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 61 °F

    We walked 1.5 blocks down to Manhattan terminal. Easy Peasy!

    checkin was a breeze.

    We had lunch in the main dining room. Wedge salad, fish and chips.

    Dad and I took a nap while watching The American President.

    We’re waiting for the ship to pull away! Beautiful sunset with the majestic skyline.

    We met a new couple from Florida and Idaho that walked with us from the hotel to the ship. And we ran into Jack and Carolyn from our previous trans Atlantic cruise 10 years ago.    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 2, 3 Sea Day & Halifax, Canada

    October 22, 2024, North Atlantic Ocean ⋅ ☁️ 59 °F

    Day 2 Beautiful sail-away; looked up at the airplanes flying overhead; sat on the deck; gorgeous night; even more gorgeous skyline; dinner with a Amelia and Jim and then comedy show - ok

    Slept in til 7am; cross stitched and enjoyed the sunrise. Cruise critic reception. Meet cruise director. Lunch with Carolyn and Jack. 3 hour nap-much needed; dinner with the Lantz and Hills - great conversations. I came back to the room and Glenn went to evening show

    Day 3 Halifax Nova Scotia I woke up at 5:30 and went to Spinaker to cross stitch and watch us dock. I had planned on a tour but it was cancelled, so we walked off the ship with Amelia and Jim.

    We walked along the seaboard. Just a leisure walk. Then we spend several hours at the maritime museum. They had an exhibit of the Titanic.

    Lunch at the Old Triangle Irish pub. I order pastie. We walked to the city Park. Fall colors - not cold at all.    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 4,5,6,7,8 Sea days

    October 25, 2024, North Atlantic Ocean ⋅ 🌬 72 °F

    We had Sea Days on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. We skipped St. John’s Newfoundland because of high seas, so then had 5 Sea Days.

    It was pretty rough the first night. The NCL Sky was rockin and rollin for 2 days.

    We had speciality dining with Jack and Carolyn along with Amelia and Jim at Cagney Restaurant. I loved my Rib-eye steak, French onion soup and wedge salad. We also went to La Cucina on Saturday night with Jim and Amelia.

    On Sunday, we had a worship service in the board meeting room. There were about 8 couples that attended. Jack Hill shared his testimony. Mark and JudyAnn attended. I recognized JudyAnn from Azmera retreat in Costa Rica. Small World Big Family.

    I’ve done lots of counted cross stitching each morning up in the Spinnaker lounge as the sun rises. Glenn is usually on the bicycle.

    I’ve really enjoyed the SEA DAYS and our hard adventure in Guatemala finally caught up to us. We enjoyed a good 3 hour Sunday afternoon nap. We are not get any USA sports, so we are not missing much on the Dallas Cowboys. Glenn still wears his Cowboys baseball cap!

    On Monday morning we got together with the Lantz and also JudyAnn and Mark. We talked about “aging faithfully”. We met a couple heading toward Croatia.    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 9 Ponta Delgada Azores, Portugal

    October 29, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 68 °F

    We had a 3 hour tour of the island. Our first stop was a pineapple plantation. Next was Fire Lake & Riberia Grande. Volcanic lake. Beautiful spot. Several look out spot.r

    There’s more cows on this island than people.
    276,000 cows
    230,000 people

    After a short stop, we ventured into two churches. Glenn also purchased Magnum ice-cream bar

    You will make known to me the path of life;
    In Your presence is fullness of joy;
    In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
    Psalm 16:11, NASB

    And I enjoyed this quote that Hanna shared today.

    [God] can't be used as a road. If you're approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as the means, you're not really approaching Him at all. —CS Lewis

    Country #2 -Azores, Portugal
    Port #2
    Miles 2,000    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 10 and 11 Sea Days

    October 30, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ 🌙 66 °F

    Wednesday and Thursday were full of rough seas.

    I was cross stitching early in the morning. Amelia comes up and we chat as we watch the sunrise. It was very very windy out on the deck. Glenn slept in and didn’t show up in his normal routine of bicycling in the morning. He slept in!

    We met for morning devotions with mark and Judy Ann and also Jim and Amelia plus new friends Darla and Richard. We talked about how each of our lives have different stories and how we can share our stories. Interesting conversation. Glenn mentioned about the YouTube channel of “The Listening Road” and how everybody has a story and everyone wants to be heard.

    I attended the session with Amelia on “How to run a cruise ship”. Very informative. After a quick return to the room, Glenn and I went down to the main dining room where waiter Aktar greeted us and insisted where he could wait on us. Aktar work on NCL Spirit 2020/Rome-Capetown and again 2021/Hawaii-New Zealand
    And he remembers us. He served us in “the Local” many many times and remembers we enjoyed Diet Coke, so without us asking, he brought us Diet Coke! Wow.

    We enjoyed lunch with new friends, Darla and Richard and listened to their story.

    I took a good afternoon nap.

    We had a speciality dining at The Bistro with the Hills and Lantz. Great conversation and delicious food. I tried the pork chop and chocolate roll. One word: Delicious!

    On Thursday, we had another time change. We are now 6 hours ahead of Dallas. I cross stitched. Then Amelia, Glenn and I played Rummicube snd No pun intended. We had a good afternoon nap. And then we met with 4 other couples for dinner, but we divided into to tables -men on 1 table and women on the other. And I had my favorite crème brûlée. Tomorrow night, Jaime is going to make us fried Yucca.

    It’s Halloween, so folks are all dressed up, and there’s carved pumpkins around the ship.

    We’ll be passing through straight of Gibraltar at midnight tonight
    Next stop: Spain    Read more

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    Day 12 Caves of Nerja, Spain

    November 1, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F

    Our NCL Excursion consisted of an hour tour of Caves of Nerja. Very impressive. The largest Column in the world is in this cave system. We walked and walked.

    Then we drove to the quaint village of Nerja. It reminded me of Santorini. White cottages and blue shutters houses.

    We sat down to order churros and hot chocolate before heading back to the bus. And a 86 year old Norwegian lady named Igner. Sweet lady. We had a nice conversation. She said that if we come to Norway she would show us around. We did have a quick 5 minute FaceTime talk with dad.

    The last time Glenn and I were in this area was Feb 1, 2020 and Ellen FaceTime us of little Annie’s birth. Happy memories!    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 14 Barcelona, Spain

    November 3, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F

    Hop On Hop Off of Barcelona

    Segrada Familiar church
    Olympic stadium

    We had an extra day in Barcelona because of a possibility of labor dock workers strike.

    After going thru Immigration, we had a short service. There’s confusion as we had requested 5-6pm, but it was listed on the dailey as 9-10am. Since everyone was going thru immigration, only a few showed up. Amelia and Jim took over for us for the 5-6pm since we were on the Hop OnHop Off bus

    We did play several games after eating breakfast and before taking the shuttle to city center.    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 1 Sagrada Familia (15)

    November 4, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 64 °F

    Wonderful 2 hour tour of Segrada Familiar with Glenn and Jim.

    Lots of symbolism in this structure by A Gaudí

    We had made arrangements to connect up with Eduardo and Krista and their 2 girls after our tour however during the tour the alarms went off of “flash flooding” for the next 3 hours. We decided to cancel. Good thing. It was down pouring!

    The sun came out just about the time we were leaving and I was able to take these reflection of stain glass on the columns. Aww!

    Upon returning to my stateroom, I saw on BBC of major flooding in Barcelona. So glad the Garcias didn’t adventure out in the weather.    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 2 Palma Majorca, Spain (16)

    November 5, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 63 °F

    We watched the ship dock at 6:30 this morning. I cross stitched and Glenn did his 30 min of bicycling. We went down to the main dining room for breakfast the. Got off this ship at 10am.

    We walked to a very nice mall. Glenn scouted out a cellphone store to answer questions about e-sim card for Europe. I then walked through a hugh department/grocery store looking for a clipboard. Carrefour store had everything of school supplies except a clipboard. Next stop.

    We then hit on the Hop On Hop Off bus. Senior citizen discount. We got off and walk towards the big cathedral but it was closed. Then Glenn bought me a gelato. Yummy. We finally got to another stop to continue our Hop On Hop Off.

    Tonight we have reservations at La Cucina. Good day. I had a nice conversation with an English lady while waiting for the bus.    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 3 Alicante, Spain (17)

    November 6, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 66 °F

    We kept waking up during the night to check on the elections. We slept through my normal routine at the Spinnaker and cross stitching.

    At 8am (2am NY time) the satellite internet was DARK. So it wasn’t until 9am we got internet to show that Trump most likely won the election. Now we can go off ship and enjoy our excursion.

    Our NCL excursion took us to a vineyard and wine tasting along with a stop at a church on a hill in Novelda. (Santa Maria Magdalena)

    We returned to the ship for a 6pm Latitudes party and also we are watching the morning news of the election returns.    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 4 Motril, Spain (18)

    November 7, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 59 °F

    We did our normal stuff. I cross stitched and had my devotions while the sun was rising and we were docking at Motril. Glenn did his bicycle thing.

    We ate breakfast at the Garden cafe and a nice “brown little man” carried my bowl of oatmeal and English muffin over to the quiet La Cucina area.

    We had a delightful visit with John and Jori. We met the Sams 8 years ago on a South America cruise. They’ve been to Guatemala several years ago to visit us and then we visited then near Malaga in January 2020. So good to catch up and visit.

    We drive 1/2 hour down the road and sat at a seaside cafe and had lunch. We enjoyed the famous Spanish food (paella) and great conversation.    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 5 Casablanca, Morocco (19)

    November 8, 2024 in Morocco ⋅ ☁️ 70 °F

    Great day in Casablanca.
    We took a 5 hour tour of Casablanca. We stopped at Hassan II mosque - built in just 8 years back in the 90’s. It has retracting doors that open up and down allowing light in. It is built over the Atlantic Ocean. We learned more interesting facts. We took our shoes off and walked on the marble floor. There’s not any icons or symbols at all, just the lines and round symbols.

    We walked through the fish market and artesian market where you can buy pottery, rugs and spices.

    We stopped at the palace and saw huge doors.

    I walked over 10,000 steps. Interesting to learn more about Casablanca    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 6 Agadir, Morocco (20)

    November 9, 2024 in Morocco ⋅ ☁️ 84 °F

    Meeting new friends from A Candle in the Window at this Morocco city

    Hector helped us to get off the ship early by going thru the employee staircase. We got on the shuttle bus to a shopping mall area, then the taxi to Dar Targain meet James and his family.

    We had a delicious meal. Cooked camel and goat. Traditional meal where you use bread as your fork.

    We walked thru the open market and enjoyed seeing the variety of spices, olives, fruits and vegetables.

    Then stroll thru to the park where it was shaded and cooler. It’s pretty hot here today.

    My heart is happy again to be in foreign country. Very similar to other 3rd world countries.

    We went to their home and they shared the delicious Morocco food. Delicious. The soup was tomatoes based and hot.

    As we visited our new friends, Sophia mentioned her teacher from Barcelona, and we determined she knew Eduardo and Christa.

    Earlier in the morning, sitting in the Spinnaker, we met Mark and Tracey who are from Wildwood in East Moline. Small world, Big family.    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 7 Puerto Rosario, Canary Island (21)

    November 10, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F

    What day of the week is it?

    We gained another hour. Now only 6 hours ahead of Dallas time.

    We needed a SEA DAY, so we walked off the ship, took a little stroll through town. Took a few pictures, went to the Dollar store and back onto the ship.

    Glenn and I jumped into the jacuzzi. Nice. The weather is perfect. Hot.

    We’ll be having our weekly church service. Disappointed it wasn’t printed up in the Free style Daily. We told a bunch of folks though

    We enjoyed dinner together with 3 other couples. We laughed and enjoyed playing “2 truths and 1 lie”    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 8 Tenerife (22)

    November 11, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F

    After watching the sunrise and docking into Tenerife along the NCL Dawn, we ate breakfast in the main dining room.

    We walked off the ship with Mark and Tracy from Wildwood, negotiated with a taxi driver to take us to the other side of the island to Loro Parque (zoo). It’s an highly acclaimed wild life park.

    We watched 2 shows. Dolphins and then Orcas. We saw turtles, flamingos and the fish in the coral reefs. Beautiful. We enjoyed a seal lion show too. Wish my grandkids were here with us. They would love it! This park is ranked #3 in world ranking zoos (San Diego #

    Then    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 9/10 Las Palmas Sea Day (23/24

    November 12, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 66 °F

    Our las Palmas stop was very relaxed. We walked to a local mall then returned back to the ship. We had dinner and the show.

    Our sea day was very welcomed. I cross stitched and then Glenn and I had breakfast at The Local.

    Around 9am I was tired and took a nearly 2 hour nap. Then we watched “Fly Me To the Moon”. Very good. I crossed stitched some. I’ve never been on a cruise where we had 8 straight ports of call, so we took advantage of the Sea Day.

    We had our evening meal with officer Brian and his wife. 3 couple. Very nice and intimate. Great conversation.    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 11 Cadiz (Jerez) Spain (25)

    November 14, 2024 in Spain ⋅ 🌬 63 °F

    It was raining pretty hard this morning, so disembarking was kinda slow. I did my normal thing of cross stitching while Glenn was bicycling. We met Norma, an Avant missionary that lives near Cadiz. She met us at the ship.

    We had churros and hot chocolate under the umbrella patio. It was a drizzling type of day.

    Then we went to a presentation of Andalusian horses and their 500 years of history, and a well done poetic and photographic book to celebrate their rich history. Beverly Marr would have loved seeing these majestic horses of the Iberian peninsula.

    We had lunch then walked to Land of Hope, a center for refugees in Jerez, Spain. I FaceTimed dad and then we drove back the 1/2 hour back to the NCL Sky.

    Norma works immigrants. She’s a fantastic gal. Watch her story here.

    https://vimeo.com/1020349963    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 12/13 Sea Day & Lisbon (25/26)

    November 16, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☁️ 70 °F

    Our Friday port was canceled because of high winds to tender in. Glenn and I had a good breakfast in the dining room then we got our “envelopes” ready for Darla -excursions we will have in Africa. And I addressed several left over thankyou/Thanksgiving notes to give to Tracy to deliver back in the USA.

    We had a good nap, then steak dinner at Cagneys. We watched the closing program and had dessert with Mark and Tracey up on 11

    We had a lively visit with Traci and Jonathan Shoemaker. Traci is Mark and Jeannie Hoopers’ daughter. The Hoppers were my youth directors while I was a teenager at Northwest Bible Church back in the ther passing 1970s. Because of Mark and Jeannie’s influence and their love for missions, I became a missionary. So it was neat to spend a few hours with Traci and Jonathan. We talked about life, MKs and the passing of Jeannie 2 years ago. Yes there were tears. We also talked about mother passing earlier this year.

    Glenn and I took a Hop on Hop Off bus around the beautiful Lisbon.

    We returned to run into Darla and Rick who are joining us the rest of our cruise.    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 2/3 Sea Day Funchal, Maderia (27/28)

    November 18, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 59 °F

    Sunday was a sea day. Glenn and I held the worship service at 9am- 19am. It was publishized in the Free style Daily. There were about 12 folks that showed up.

    Then we attended the Cruise Critic reception that Darla organized. The captains and first officers appeared.

    We had lunch with Darla and Rick then went to a Latitude reception up in the Spinnaker. Had a good nap snd dinner Ruth the magic/illusionist show. Very good. We got to bed early for a full day in Madeira

    We enjoyed seeing the mountainous cityscape. We waited in line to go down the hill on sleds. Fun fun! It started to rain but we still had Fun!    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 4 Santa Cruz de Palma Canary (28)

    November 19, 2024, North Atlantic Ocean ⋅ ⛅ 66 °F

    It was walk off and explore on your own kind of day. I was cross stitching when we approached Santa Cruz de La Palma. Beautiful volcano island. Steep ridges and beautiful landscape. Glenn also did his bicycle this morning.

    Last night we had diner with Darla and Rick followed by Chronology game in the library. Nice evening.

    As we strolled down the wide sidewalks, we purchased a Magnum bar and fresh potcorn from a vending machine. We talked with different folks along the way.

    We checked our email over a BigMac hamburger.    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 7 Las Palmas, Canary Island (31)

    November 22, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 77 °F

    We watched the ship dock. We were here last week and just explored the dock area. Today, we walked off and explored the Aquarium. The owner is the same owner of Loro Parque.

    What a relaxing day in the magnificent aquarium!

    “O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens. You have taught children and infants to tell of your strength, silencing your enemies and all who oppose you.

    When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers— the moon and the stars you set in place— what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?

    Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor.

    You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority— the flocks and the herds and all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that swims the ocean currents. O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!”

    ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭8‬:‭1‬-‭9‬ ‭NLT    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 8/9 Sea Day (32/33)

    November 23, 2024, North Atlantic Ocean ⋅ ⛅ 72 °F

    Two much needed sea days.

    Glenn and I enjoyed Saturday sea day by working a 500 piece puzzle all in one sitting. 2.5 hours. We left the puzzle on the table.

    We ate lunch in the Crossing and met some folks that live in Kansas City, KS. We played “Left Center Right”. Fun. New folks attended.

    For dinner we ate at Cagneys with Darla and Rick along with Paul and Beth and grand daughter Elisha. We laughed and had some good stories. We played No pun intended and another card game. Time for bed

    On Sunday, we had the worship service in room 1. There were 30 fellow passengers that attended! And Paul gave a short devotion. We had lunch with Collete and Alfred from Canada who are traveling to Singapore with us.

    Then I played Left Center Right and win $12.00. Lots of laughs. We had dinner with Paul, Beth and granddaughter and attended the 7pm show of a violinist. Very good. I was in bed by 9:30 as Glenn watched the football game highlights. Monday is Senegal!    Read more

  • JudyfromMoodyTravelerNYC - Capetown, S Africa #1

    Day 10 Dakar, Senegal (34)

    November 25, 2024 in Senegal ⋅ 🌬 77 °F

    We met Dave and April at Total gasoline station - walking about 25 minutes from NCL SKY. Dave and April are Avant missionaries - both graduated from Moody! (2000 and 2001)

    Darla and Rick joined us for the enjoyable day with the Cousens.

    We had a very pleasant time getting to know them as they showed us around Dakar. We drove by the “White House”, over to this huge monument along the coast, western most point of Africa, lunch on the beach and a grocery stop.

    Dakar is a huge city, traffic going every direction, folks trying to sell you anything and garbage and trash everywhere. The Cousens have a ministry called CoursiTEA coffee house type.

    They drove us all the way back to the ship. Where was the security?

    Great day. Wonderful folks and great experience.    Read more

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