I have neglected the blog for a while because we've been so busy. Since I last wrote there has been so much happening, both on the ship and in various ports. It seems that every day at sea brings some kind of private event celebrating birthdays, anniversaries or "till we meet again" parties because someone is disembarking soon. Two hundred passengers left the ship in Singapore and only about 100 newbies joined us. Only one couple that we know (from Ireland) and the rest seem to be a quiet bunch despite the fact that 16 of them are Canadians.
If they are in the right order, the first photos are from the Dressmaking Contest which we decided to enter at the last minute. Since we had no illusions that we might win based on any actual skills, we thought we would at least try to give everyone a laugh with our little bridal tableau. The bridal gown is made from bed sheets tacked together with duct tape and safety pins and the veil is a window curtain which our butler was somewhat shocked to be asked to remove for us. Note the groom's fancy shoes! We borrowed them from one of the entertainers on board.
We threw Ken's arab dishdash on Niels to make him look like a vicar and James (after a lot of persuasion) agreed to wear one of Molise's frocks and be the flower girl. He had been lured into the group on the promise that he would be a page boy but soon got into the spirit of the revised plan. The whole thing brought the house down with laughter and we won! Fernando announced that our prize was a World Cruise on one of the Costa ships next year!!
I've included some photos from other events on board and a champagne party at Catherine's home in Singapore. Her pool is spectacular and we all enjoyed ourselves before heading off to meet Leila and Herve, our old friends from Monaco. They had disembarked from a Seabourn ship a couple of days earlier and were flying home late that night. It was great to see them again and we had a wonderful time catching up.
We sailed out of Saigon harbour last evening and are now looking forward to a couple of days at sea before arriving in Hong Kong. I have so many photos to download and sort through that I probably will never get caught up to describe some of the incredible things we've seen and done since the last post. We'll have two days and one night in H.K. that will be filled with trips to the tailor and a planned ferry ride to Lama Island for a very fresh seafood lunch with Peter and Pru. We did that the last time we were there and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Just wanted you all to know that we are fine and still having a wonderful trip. Hope you are all great too!
D & K
Clearly Ken, and his fashion mavens of course, will be a hit at the next Albany Club dress-up affair.
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