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WEEK 11

  04 OCTOBER 2024: QUEBEC CITY So, the last week of this contract had arrived (I laugh at the crew when they ask me when I leave for home, hubby says my sign off date is 11 October) we will be sailing from Quebec City in Canada to New York City.   Today has been another perfect sunny day in the city, it was overcast this morning, so I had my doubts, but the sun did come out after 12. I had to get off early and sit and wait for hubby who could only get off a lot later, so used the time to catch up with some free Wi-Fi in the terminal building. Our first stop was at the chocolate shop where I had the delicious hot chocolate yesterday so wanted hubby to taste it, while I went to get us a cup, I left him sitting on a bench in the old town area, watching the tourists go by. We decided that we were going to try some Asian food and that was the best decision for the food was excellent, so tasty, we really enjoyed it. He had some seafood noodles soup, and I tried some marinate...

WEEK 10

  25/09/23 NEW YORK I was up very early this morning and eventually got up so that I did not bother hubby for he needs his sleep. Getting older seems to go hand in hand with sleeplessness! So off I went to deck 17 and just after I started walking it started raining so I made my way to deck 16 for coffee while I watched this last week’s cruise video on the big screen. Enjoyed seeing the medical team on the big screen doing the wave and all the videos of the week’s different music evenings like 60,70, the glow party and so on. Had a little giggle for the cruise director was all dressed up in his Elvis type of costume with a wig, John Lennon glasses the hole catoot, and just thought to myself it is a good thing this type of dress is not part of hubby,s job description!! but the guests had a great time. I had time to video us passing under the bridge on the Hudson River and just when I wanted to go up to video the Statue of Liberty I realized that I had lost my name tag so in the...