The Daily for Friday 12/31/2021

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[St Pete Cruiser]

16 minutes ago, rafinmd said:

Do you have a source for the Crystal Serenity information?  There's nothing about it on the Crystal forum and the ship is supposed to be there until early tomorrow morning.

 

Roy

It was posted on Cruise Critic Crystal by masscruiser2010 that 18 were tested positive late Wednesday. Barbados will be celebrating the start of being a Republic at midnight,  so maybe they will at least get to see the fireworks. 

[St Pete Cruiser]

Look under Covid on Serenity. 

[cat shepard]

3 hours ago, StLouisCruisers said:

I just heard Betty White died this morning at her home at the age of 99.  She would have turned 100 on January 17.  She's always been a favorite of mine with her sweet but witty personality.  RIP!

 

She has been met at the Rainbow Bridge & escorted by the countless animals for which she advocated. Bless her. 

[rafinmd]

26 minutes ago, St Pete Cruiser said:

It was posted on Cruise Critic Crystal by masscruiser2010 that 18 were tested positive late Wednesday. Barbados will be celebrating the start of being a Republic at midnight,  so maybe they will at least get to see the fireworks. 

That's old news from Wednesday and Serenity had been on it's itinerary.  With the spread of Omicron on land I doubt if there's a ship anywhere in the Western Hemisphere that has no cases.

 

Roy

[1ANGELCAT]

Good evening all  I hope everyone is ready to celebrate a better year than this one has been. 
    I thank everyone for the love and prayers bestowed on our family.

Special blessings and prayers to all ❤️🙏❤️

[dobiemom]

7 hours ago, kazu said:

Well, I am sorry to say that my New Year is off to a bad start.  Jose’s lumbar puncture results are back and there is NOTHING there to help.  He’s being started on O.T. & physio to determine his “baseline”.  They think it’s metabolic encephalopathy.  Still working on it.  This does not bode well. 😢. I hope and pray that I am wrong.
 

😱😢❤️🙏

[JazzyV]

Well, 2021 is going out with a bang! My crown just fell off. So I'll be calling the dentist on Monday.

[AncientWanderer]

1 minute ago, JazzyV said:

Well, 2021 is going out with a bang! My crown just fell off. So I'll be calling the dentist on Monday.

 

Just kick that crown to the curb and say, "Hello 2022!"    🤷‍♀️

[Cruising-along]

3 hours ago, Seasick Sailor said:

We missed our music trivia by 1 point! 😞 Rich was AMAZING! 

Yes, Rich knows music! 😄

[cunnorl]

@kazu  Jacqui, I am sorry to hear that the test results were not helpful. We will keep you and Jose in our  prayers. Please take care of yourself also. It is impor

 @Quartzsite Cruiser Lenda, Thank you for your kind words. I am certainly looking forward with optimism for good things in he New Year,

Thank you to all who posted all those wonderful pictures of todays port. 

 

Happy New Year Everyone. As you can see we are at home tonite, No parties for us. 

[grapau27]

It is 26 minutes after midnight here in the UK.

Happy New Year.

Let's wish for good health for  everyone and plenty of cruising.

Graham.

[Cruzin Terri]

7 hours ago, kazu said:

Well, I am sorry to say that my New Year is off to a bad start.  Jose’s lumbar puncture results are back and there is NOTHING there to help.  He’s being started on O.T. & physio to determine his “baseline”.  They think it’s metabolic encephalopathy.  Still working on it.  This does not bode well. 😢. I hope and pray that I am wrong.
 

Jacqui, I am sorry to hear that there are no answers.  Prayers to find what the problem is.  Stay strong.

Terri

[CrabbyPatti]

Happy New Year to Everyone!

       We will just have a quiet evening here at home.  Picked up some shrimp and steak for dinner, but am leaning for shrimp tonight and steak tomorrow!  Will see what happens when I make dinner!

        Sure will miss Betty White, never met her but over the years she has made us laugh>

       Wishing you all well in the New Year!  Would be nice to meet many of you on a cruise in the future, you are all so warm, welcoming and caring.  I am glad to meet you "in print" everyday!

 

Denise

[Vict0riann]

We went to New Zealand on the Statendam, out of Vancouver.  It was a memorable cruise!  Our second-to-last stop was Tauranga, and we took a ship's tour to a marai, where Pat and the other gents were persuaded to join in a haka.  A lot of my photos are like ones already on the thread.  We walked around after, and visited a beautiful beach, which seemed to go on for miles.  

 

We then disembarked  in Auckland, and flew to Christchurch where we joined DSIL and her hubby for a driving tour of a couple of weeks.  We spent a few days in Rotorua, what I remember most was the terrible smell of sulphur all the time, but it was a fascinating area.  I think we went to three different areas of thermal action, and also visited the Agrodome where they demonstrate all the different breeds of sheep, and shearing.

 

Tauranga

 

 

 

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[sailingdutchy]

Pat looked pretty scary there ,   Ann , but he has to work a lot more on that Tongue action  !

 

Happy New Year  to all our Dailyite  friends , we wish you all Good Health and Fortune and may we all be able to be on another Dam Ship again soon . 

 

A special shout out to @erewhon who is way ahead of us in New Zealand and already is in 2022  ! 

 

 

 

[sailingdutchy]

The Gremlins duplicated my message , once is enough ! 

 

 

 

Edited January 1, 2022 by sailingdutchy

[AncientWanderer]

[Cruzin Terri]

[TheKingD]

Happy New Year to all the dear people here.  Thanks to the regular kind folks including Rich and Roy for the daily connections.  And Go Dawgs - we are pulling for you @richwmn!

[tjcox9]

41 minutes ago, Vict0riann said:

We went to New Zealand on the Statendam, out of Vancouver.  It was a memorable cruise!  Our second-to-last stop was Tauranga, and we took a ship's tour to a marai, where Pat and the other gents were persuaded to join in a haka.  A lot of my photos are like ones already on the thread.  We walked around after, and visited a beautiful beach, which seemed to go on for miles.  

 

We then disembarked  in Auckland, and flew to Christchurch where we joined DSIL and her hubby for a driving tour of a couple of weeks.  We spent a few days in Rotorua, what I remember most was the terrible smell of sulphur all the time, but it was a fascinating area.  I think we went to three different areas of thermal action, and also visited the Agrodome where they demonstrate all the different breeds of sheep, and shearing.

 

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Loved learning to do the Haka on one our cruises from the group that was on board with for us for some time. We were t good at it, but still fun.

 

These ports of the day bring back a lot of fond memories that have been buried for a while.

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[Mr. Boston]

6 hours ago, HAL Sailer said:

🎉Happy New Years Eve, all!🎉

 

Tonight, we (or, probably just I, as DH will likely be fast asleep) will watch the cherry drop from our downtown condo. (When you live in an area proclaimed the 'Cherry Capital of the World', a crystal ball just wouldn't do!)

And, as the cherry drops, I will be offering up prayers and wishes for all to have happiness and health in 2022 -- and a cruise on a BHB in our future!

 

🎉Happy 2022 to you all!🎉

-Melisa

 

And I just received my Christmas present today from my sister who lives in Boyne Falls. The gift is from a company in TC called The Cherry Republic.  The chocolate covered dried cherries are addictive!

[marshhawk]

DH was so looking forward to watching the Georgia game tonight, and it's on cable, so he is listening to the radio.  Tonight's dinner was spaghetti and meatball individual casseroles, with melted mozzarella on top.  Guess we will be eating spaghetti for lunch for two or three more days.

 

Yesterday I ordered our books for our book club.  We stuck to Southern writers for 8 years, and then this year, we just chose books we wanted to read. Oddly enough two of us still chose Southern writers.  We are a pretty small group.  We lost one of the members to pancreatic cancer in 2020.  That made us stop meeting for a while, and then we gathered back up in October, handed in our reading requests, created the schedule, once every two months instead of monthly. So I am now ready for book club.

 

This evening, we had tornadoes north and south of us.  Not sure where STLouiscruisers live, but I hope that they are OK.  To me it's unusual to have tornadoes on New Years Eve, but the weather woman said we had them last year too.  Rich, dont worry about Athens, storms were in Covington and Social Circle. I will let you know Sunday what happens tomorrow night. Tomorrow night is supposed to be bad here in GA, and I guess this storm is coming in from the Arkansas, so I hope my MIL is doing OK.  DH calls his step mom on Sundays, so we can do our weather catch up then.

 

 

 

[GTVCRUISER]

Happy New Year 🍾🥂🙂

[aliaschief]

4 minutes ago, GTVCRUISER said:

Happy New Year 🍾🥂🙂

@GTVCRUISER Happy New Year and welcome to The Daily! You have been a long time CC member and have enjoyed your postings.

Edited January 1, 2022 by aliaschief