Our Anniversary Cruise

For the last several years we have also been going on cruise the last week in January to celebrate our wedding anniversary. This year my college classmate and fraternity brother, Jim Stroke and his wife Nancy went with us. It made it quite interesting since this was their very first cruise.
Jim was quite worried about getting seasick and no matter how much we tried to reassure him. Then of all things, the Italian ship runs aground just several days before we were to depart. I think they nearly cancelled but we did get on board!!
Here they are just before boarding in Tampa on the Norwegian ship Star.

Carol and I cruised on the Star in October when we went from Los Angeles to Tampa through the Panama Canal. This gave us the opportunity to get to know the ship quite well and were able to make Jim and Nancy feel more comfortable on board. We even had cabins next to each other and we each had our own balcony.
We cruised the Western Caribbean with stops in Roatan, Belize, Costa Maya and Cozumel. it was a 7 day cruise and we had good weather in all ports except for some rain in Cozumel.

Carol and Nancy had plenty of time to do the normal gal thing of shipping on board and ashore. Nancy was very lucky as she won two drawings at 2 different Diamonds International stores for a necklace. Both necklaces were identical and she gave one to Carol.
I got to do a SCUBA dive in Roatan and it was a good dive but not any better than those I have done in St Thomas.

We celebrated our 54th Wedding anniversary on board and here were are with the Melodic Trio, the group we enjoyed greatly during our Panama Canal cruise.
We spent several evenings with a very fine couple listening to the Melodic Trio in the atrium. We always seem to meet such nice people on cruises. They enjoyed dancing as we do and we used the Atrium Lobby for a for a dance floor Here is a picture of Keith and Marge as we we were listening to the music.

We returned home on January 22 and have been busy every day since!! May have to go on another cruise to get some rest!!!!