Hi there, welcome back. Our last chapter concluded on Saturday, August 31st. The heat wave is not over, they are predicting temps over 100, close 110, for at least the first two weeks of September. Sunday was a slow day. We did some packing and planning for the cruise trip that starts on Thursday night when we fly from Vegas to Baltimore. We went to the ice cream social and then came home and had dinner.
Monday, September 2nd, Happy Labor Day. We went over to the clubhouse about 11:30 to help with the Silver Seekers Labor Day hamburger lunch. By job was cooking hamburgers on the flat top and I ended up doing over 70 burgers. We had a great turnout of over 60 people! A real success. After the lunch was done and we had cleaned up the kitchen and clubhouse, we went back to the trailer and just relaxed the rest of the day. Tuesday was another day with not too much going on. I did some office work and at 10:30 we went to the nail salon. I just got my toenails cut, Jackie had a full mani/pedi. While she was doing that I ran some errands. After we got home we were too tired to go to happy hour. While she was getting into the big chair they use for pedicures, Jackie slipped and fell, hitting her knee and shin on the hard plastic. It hasn’t swelled up, but she says it really hurts. This is the same knee she hurt years ago and has had two orthoscopic surgeries on. It has always bothered here some, now it really hurts. We watched TV for the rest of the night and went to bed.
Wednesday, September 4th, Jackie went to play Pokeno at 1:00. I skipped my jam session this week because I have stuff I have to do before we leave tomorrow on our cruise. I went out and ran some errands while Jackie was at the clubhouse. We spent most of the late afternoon and evening getting our packing finished. Thursday, sort of the first day our of cruise vacation. Our cruise leaves on Saturday out of Baltimore, Maryland. Because of the possibility of problems with air travel, we asked Norwegian Cruise Lines to fly us to Baltimore a day early. We made our own hotel reservations because Norwegian said they did not have any deals with hotels in Baltimore. Well, the cruise line met the letter of our request by flying us out of Las Vegas on Thursday, just at 11:55 pm! We packed the car with our luggage, and set up the trailer for our absence of over two weeks, then left for Las Vegas about 5:00. This got us over the hump and into Vegas before dark. After we got into town we drove to the Blueberry Hill restaurant just North of the airport for dinner. After dinner we drove to the Best Western McCarren hotel right on the perimeter of the airport. The airport is now Harry Reid International Airport, but the hotel kept the old name of McCarren. This hotel had a “park and ride” program which didn’t require we stay in the hotel. It cost us less to park there than it would have at the airport, and they provide a shuttle to and from the terminals. After we got the car parked and secured, we had the shuttle take us to the airport, even though we were about four hours early for our flight.
After we got to the airport we checked our bags, which American Airlines charged us $170. We then went to the gate to wait for our flight. We went through security and Jackie’s carryon got flagged for an inspection. They threw out her water and a small can of hair spray, but let her keep a small pair of haircutting scissors. When we got to the gate we just had a cocktail and relaxed until boarding time. The flight boarded on time and we were off just after midnight headed first to Chicago. The flight was full, the seats were uncomfortable and neither of us could fall asleep. We landed at Chicago O’Hare a little before 6:00 am Central Time and watched the sun come up. Our connecting flight didn’t leave until 8:30 or so, so we just relaxed for two hours. The connecting flight was also on time, and also full. This one was a smaller plane with just two seats on each side of the aisle. I was still uncomfortable and a little bumpy. We finally arrived in Baltimore, Maryland at BWI, just before noon Eastern Time on Friday, September 6th. Fortunately, all of our bags arrived with us, so we gathered everything up and caught an Uber to take us to our hotel. We had reservations for the night at the Courtyard Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel. Well, the Uber driver took us to the Baltimore Marriot Inner Harbor. When I tried to check in they let me know we didn’t have a reservation there. I showed them my conformation email and they told me it was a different hotel. Seems there are several hotels downtown that use the term “inner harbor” in their name. We caught a cab and got a ride to the right hotel. Fortunately they had a room ready for us so we got settled in and took a nap. Later in the evening we had a couple of drinks in the hotel bar, then went next store to a deli that was in the same building and had a very nice dinner. After dinner we went home, watched a little TV and went to bed after a 12 hour day/
Saturday, September 7th, we had an 11:30 check in time scheduled with the cruise ship. The ship was only about 10 minutes away from our hotel and the hotel desk clerk had set up a ride for us with someone she knew who did ride shares. The driver arrived right on time with a big SUV. We had originally asked for a bigger vehicle because we thought our friend Peggy Bullock and her friend Wanda, who are also booked on this cruise, were staying at the same hotel. Turns out, they were staying at the one we had mistakenly gone to first yesterday. We did find a very nice, older couple from Holland waiting in the lobby for a ride to the cruise port, and asked them if they wanted to share a ride. They did so the ride was half price for each couple.
We got to the port, checked our bags with the ship’s baggage people and got checked in for the cruise. The check in process was very organized and we were on the ship all ready to go after only about 30 minutes. Once we got on the ship we went to the buffet and had lunch, the found a bar to have a drink. The “drink package” was included in our cruise fare, so we could drink as much of whatever we wanted. While at the bar we met up with Peggy and Wanda. We had never met Wanda, although we knew of her from conversations in the past with Peggy. They have been friends for years and are both widows. After a couple of cocktails we went to our cabin and started to unpack our bags, which were arriving in our stateroom. The ship, the Norwegian Sky, is an older, smaller, ship so the cabin was pretty small and storage was a major problem. Nonetheless, we managed to find somewhere to put everything and we were ready to cruise. We spent the afternoon just looking around the ship.
Because of the fall Jackie took a couple days before we left, her knee and leg really hurt. We arranged for a rental scooter to be brought to the ship and when we went to the cabin it was there, outside in the hallway. Jackie used the scooter while we were on our explorations, getting used to driving it, not too fast, not too slow, and not running into people or things. It was tricky at first. The ship sailed at 4:00, leaving Baltimore Harbor and headed down the Chesapeake Bay towards Virginia Beach and the open ocean. All four of us were up on deck when we left taking pictures of the concrete pylons left over from the recent collapse of the Key Bridge after one of the supports was hit by a wayward cargo ship. We all went to dinner in the dining room about 6:30 and had a very nice meal. We didn’t get out in time for the Welcome Aboard show in the showroom, so we just checked out the casino and gamed a bit, then checked a couple of bars before heading back to our cabin after an early and busy day.
Before I go into the next day, the first full day aboard the Sky, I want to give a little information about the ship. This is an older ship, the second oldest in Norwegian’s current inventory. It was built in 1999 and sailed as the Norwegian Sky until 2004. In 2004 Norwegian Cruise Line purchased American Cruise Line, which had operated two ships on cruises limited to the Hawaiian Islands. American went bankrupt and NCL purchased the company. They sold the older ships American had used and transferred the Sky to the new subsidiary, NCL America for service in cruising the Hawaiian Islands. The ship underwent some changes and was rechristened “Pride of Aloha.” US Federal laws require that ships which sail solely between United States ports must be registered in the United States, and have United States citizens as crew, so that was why the ship had to be transferred to the new company. The major renovation undertaken was removal of the casino and replacing it with a Hawaiian cultural museum. Since the ship never left US waters, it was not allowed to have a casino. The ship sailed at the Spirit of Aloha until 2008 when NCL terminated the NCL America company and withdrew from the Hawaiian Island cruise business. The ship went back into dock and was again slightly modified with the casino being restored and the ship being rechristened back to Norwegian Sky and reregistered in the Bahamas, where all the other NCL ships are registered. In 2019 the ship went into drydock and was completely refurbished. As I said, it is a smaller ship with a nominal capacity of about 2,000 passengers, with a crew of 900. This is in comparison to some of the newest “super cruise ships” which have passenger capacities approaching 7,000. The ship is 848 feet long, and has a beam of 118 feet, narrow than most of the other ships we have been on, explaining the smaller cabin size. The décor on the ship is modern but actually quite plain compared to other ships we have cruised on. The two dining rooms are located on deck 5, the lowest passenger deck, one aft and the other amidships, with the galley in between. Another feature we have never seen is that the main showroom is located in the aft on decks 6 and 7, right above the aft dining room. Every other cruise ship I have been on has the main showroom in the forward part of the ship. All in all, it was a very pleasant ship and the small passenger load meant that you saw a lot more of the same people every day.
Sunday, September 8th, was a day at sea. We slept in, relaxing in the morning with our coffee and enjoying the warm weather and calm seas. When got ready leave to go to lunch we stepped out into the corridor and saw Jackie’s mobility scooter was gone! We had parked it outside our door because we had tried, and failed, to get it into the small cabin. Our cabin steward told us that because the cabin attendants had to have there cleaning and supply carts in the hallway most of the day, the housekeeping staff took the scooters and park them in the crew hallways where they would not be in the way. He said when we need it, they would call for it to be brought back. He made the call and a little while later the scooter appeared. We went up to the buffet for breakfast and then were touring around the ship looking for something to do. Suddenly the scooter alarmed and indicated it needed to be recharged. This surprised us since we hadn’t used it that much yesterday or today. We immediately went back to the cabin to charge it. I finally figured out that if I took off the seat I could maneuver it around the end of the bed into a place near the door to the balcony, where it was out of the way. When I took the charger out of the basket and pulled out the instruction book to see where I needed to plug the charger in, I noticed a tag in the basket that said this was the “spare” scooter provided by the rental company. It was then I also noticed a couple of other details, different colored zip ties and so forth, and figured out, this wasn’t Jackie’s scooter. This was an extra provided by the company. It was identical to her scooter, as well as a half dozen others that we had seen around the ship. The average age on this cruise was well into the 60’s, so there were a lot of scooters in use. We had the cabin attendant call and sure enough, Jackie’s scooter was still in the crew area. They brought it back and we made the switch. Jackie used the scooter for rest of the day. We had dinner in the dining room around 6:30 again with Peggy and Wanda. After dinner we went to the showroom for a Magician and Mentalist named Eric Walton. He was a very good entertainer and magician and quite funny. He involved the audience a lot and his act was well received. After the show we went back to our cabin and went to bed.
Monday, September 9th, we awoke about 8:00 or so just in time for our arrival into the Port of Boston, Massachusetts. We had visited Boston back in 2017, when we were still full-timing. That was the year that did the “Grand Northeast Tour” to get to all the States which we had not yet visited with the motorhome. We up, had some coffee and got ready to go ashore about 9:00 or so for the tour we had booked through the ship. The tour was a “hop on, hop off” tour of Central Boston, which, according to the brochure, hit all of the main historical and cultural sites in town. We got on the trolley, which had a very interesting and knowledgeable guide narrating the trip, and decided to take the entire round trip first, just to see where we might want to get off and explore later. We had plenty of time since the “all aboard” time wasn’t until 7:30 this evening. The round trip took about an hour to complete, after which we continued the ride until we reached the stop for the Quincy Market and old downtown area. We got off here and did some shopping and had lunch in a nice seafood place. We also got a couple of geocaches. After we explored the area and checked out some of the historical sites, we got back on the trolley and took it back to the dock so we could reboard the ship. After we got back to the ship we had a cocktail and just did some of the activities on board, like trivia. We had dinner about 6:30 or so. After dinner we went to the showroom to see a featured female vocalist named Mellissa McLaughlin. I had never heard of her, but I guess she works the cruise ship circuit. She had a decent voice, but she was a little too shrill and loud for us. We watched for about a half hour and then left. Since the ship had now sailed we went to the casino for a little while before heading off to bed.
Tuesday, September 10th, day four of the cruise. Today we arrived in Bar Harbor Maine about 9:00 a.m. We didn’t have any scheduled shore excursions for this stop. We had also been in Bar Harbor back in 2017 and had camped at a big campground just off the island that Bar Harbor is situated on. About 10:30 we boarded a tender to go into town. Bar Harbor does not have a dock big enough for a cruise ship, so we were anchored out in the bay. We did a little shopping in the small harbor area of town and then went into a café for lunch. After lunch we decided to take a tour of the town, so we bought tickets for a small sightseeing trolly and looked around town an listened to another interesting speaker telling us about town. It was a good tour and we were glad we took it. After the tour we caught a tender back to the ship. We rested for a while and watched while we left port about 4:30. We wandered around the ship and played some trivia before going to dinner. Tonight we had dinner with Peggy and Wanda in the dining room. They had found a waiter named Dias that they really liked and we asked to be seated in his section. Dias, which is his last name, but easier to use than his first name, Zennium. He is East Indian with a strong, but understandable Indian accent. He is very funny and very attentive. We had a great dinner and afterwards just went out and wandered the ship for a couple of hours enjoying different bars and checking out the karaoke at 9:00. The featured artist in the showroom tonight was a soloist violinist and neither of us had much interest. The Karaoke was great. There wasn’t a big crowd at the beginning and I ended up doing both the first and second songs of the session before anyone else got brave enough to put in their name. They had a great setup in one of the smaller showrooms. They had a wide selection of songs and the sound system was the same one they use for the professional entertainers that play in the room. They had the spotlights on and you really felt you were on stage. I did about four songs before the rotation started to become fairly big, at which time we headed back to the cabin and went to bed.
Wednesday, September 11th, the fifth day of the cruise. Of course, we have to remember the terrible day of September 11, 2001. Ironically, today was the first port stop in a Canadian port, Saint John, New Brunswick. We didn’t have any excursions set up for this stop, so we just walked around the port area and did some shopping and exploring. We did couple of geocaches too. We stopped in a local brewery so I could get a tee shirt since none of the shops had anything I liked. After a couple of hours we were tired, and Jackie’s knee was hurting, so we got back on the ship and rested for a while. The ship sailed early, about 4:00 and we watched from our balcony as we left port. We had dinner with Wanda and Peggy again, at Dias’ table. Today he remember that Peggy, Jackie and I all drank double Tito’s vodka on the rocks and when he came to the table he already had the drinks for us. Wow! We had another very nice dinner. After dinner we went to the main showroom for one of the two production numbers put on by the ships dance company. This one was fashioned as a “sing off” type contest between the four lead singers of the group. Of course it was done with lots of neat costumes, sets, lights and dancing. It was a very good show. After the show we went to the casino for a while, then headed up to bed.
Thursday, September 12th, day six of the cruise. Today we arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. We had lunch on the ship then went ashore for another hop on, hop off, excursion. This was a very nice city and we took the entire tour without getting off. After the tour we walked around the port area for a while, got some geocaches, and then got back on the ship. The ship left about 7:00 as we were having dinner in the dining room with “our” waiter Dias. We had another really good meal. The variety of foods on this cruise is not quite what we experienced with Carnival, but the quality was very good and I always had a great meal. After dinner we went to the showroom at 9:00 to watch the cruise ship version of “The Newlywed Game.” This seems to be a staple for cruise ships and we have seen it on every cruise we have been on, regardless of which cruise line. It was funny and entertaining, as it usually is. After the show we spent some time around the ship, then went to the cabin and bed.
Friday, September 13th, day seven. Today was another port call, this time the city of Sydney, Nova Scotia, at the very Northern tip of the province. We did get off of the ship for a little while and did some shopping in the port area. I did walk into town to drugstore to get some pain patches for Jackie’s leg. It is a pretty, if small, rural seaport town. We got a geocache at the world's largest fiddle, and then got back aboard the ship. Today was the day we had our dining reservations in Cagney’s Steakhouse. On this cruise we got two specialty dining credits, where we can go to the fancy ala carte restaurants on the ship for free. We had an excellent meal. I had the 16 oz rib eye and Jackie had the lamb. We had a really nice dinner. After dinner we went to the casino and a bar since we didn’t want to go to the show. It was the same lady that we walked out on earlier in the cruise. After a nice evening we went to the cabin and went to sleep.
Saturday, September 14th, day eight. Today our port call was in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. We had booked a tour for this port, but it didn’t leave until 1:00. We had a relaxing morning and lunch on the ship. We went ashore and boarded a very nice Prevost tour bus for a tour of the city and the bridge which connects Prince Edward Island with the mainland and New Brunswick. The tour was nice but a big part of it was just driving through the countryside to the bridge. This eight mile long bridge is the only land connection between the province of Prince Edward Island and the mainland of Canada. Until the bridge opened in 1997 the only way to get to PEI was by air or boat. It is the longest bridge in Canada, and the longest bridge over ice covered water in the world. In the winter the sea around PEI freezes solid. We drove over the bridge and made a stop at a little shopping area on the New Brunswick side. We also got a geocache there. We got some geocaches in Charlottetown and then got back on the ship.
Sunday, September 15th, day nine of the cruise. Today was a day at sea, the second of our two sea days on this cruise. We slept in and relaxed, we had lunch in the dining room with our regular waiter. We spent the rest of the day just around the ship doing whatever. We spent some time in the casino, played some trivia, and just had a quiet day. We had dinner with Peggy and Wanda and after dinner wandered around some more. We went to the showroom for a magician and mentalist show. He was Eric Walton and he was very good. He was also very funny and got the audience involved with the show. In fact, since we were in the front row, he actually came and took Jackie up on stage to help with one of his mentalist things. She did great. After the show we went to karaoke again and I got to do about three songs. After a good day at sea we went back to the cabin and went to bed.
Monday, September 16th, today we are making port in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. This is a port city located at the end of an almost 80 mile fiord northwest from the Saint Lawrence
River. We entered the fiord early in the morning, about 7:00 or so, and finally made port at noon. It was very interesting cruising up the fiord with the rock walls on either side of the ship. The fiord is only about four miles wide, but it is very deep. We had a tour booked for today, but the tour didn’t leave until 4:30, so we spent some time on the ship. We had lunch and then went ashore about 2:00 or so. It turns out there wasn’t much shopping in the port area, so we spent a couple hours just sitting. We did get a geocache though. The tour was on a very nice Prevost coach and we toured the entire area. The city was formed by combining three smaller communities into one large municipality. It is a very pretty area and the tour was fun. Saguenay is sort of the end of the world for mainland Quebec. There are no roads that go north out of Saguenay and there are no settlements north or East on the mainland except for some small tribal communities. After the tour we went back to the ship We had dinner with Peggy and Wanda and after dinner went to the production show in the showroom Tonight’s show was called Rock you Tonight and was really good with a lot of great music. After the show we gamed a bit, then went to the cabin and to bed.
Tuesday, September 17th, day 11 of the cruise. we arrived in Quebec City about 9:00. We had one more tour scheduled, but it wasn’t until 2:00. We had lunch on the ship and spent several hours in the afternoon packing our suitcases. Tomorrow is the day we get off the ship. The ship actually just stays in Quebec City overnight. We had to have the bags packed and outside the cabin by 9:00 and we had a lot of things planned for the day. We went on the tour with Wanda and Peggy and it was very interesting. At one point the bus stopped for a little while in a large riverside park and we noticed that is was very close to the hotel we had booked for two nights after the cruise. It seems to be in a very nice neighborhood, so we were happy we chose that one. After the tour we went back on the ship. We had our second specialty dining tonight in the French restaurant, Le Bistro. We went at 6:30 and had a fabulous dinner. Jackie had lamb and I had the filet and both were excellent. After dinner we went to an adult comedy show in the showroom, which was very funny. After the show we just went to bed because the shops and casino were closed since we are not leaving port tonight.
Wednesday, September 18th, we were up early because we had to be out of the cabin by 8:30. We got our carryon bags packed and were out in time. We went to breakfast, then found a place to wait to get off the ship. By 9:30 we were called to get off the ship. We didn’t have to go through Canadian customs, I guess because we have been in Canada for the last eight days. We got our bags and got a cab to take us to the Le Concorde Hotel. This hotel is in the main part of the city, on the hill above the port. It is a very nice hotel and has a revolving restaurant on the roof. We got to the hotel and they told us we couldn’t check in until 4:00, so we checked our bags with the porter and caught another cab down to the old part of the city, much of which we had seen on the tour yesterday. We spent a couple of hours walking around the old square, which dates back to the 1700’s. We did some shopping and also some geocaching. It was interesting in the old town area there was what I assume was an art installation with giant pink inflatable babies all over the buildings. One was looking in a window, another was looking over a roof, another was strung up like it was flying. Very odd. After our shopping we went back to the hotel and got in our room. We had an excellent room on the 17th floor which was in a corner of the building so we had views out of two sides. One overlooked the park and river, the other overlooked the city and port. The room was very large and very nicely done. We went out to dinner about 6:30 or so and the street that the hotel was on had at least a dozen or more restaurants and bars. We finally settled on one and had a great dinner in a sidewalk café. After dinner we walked around the street a little, then went back to the hotel and went to bed.
Thursday, September 19th, we had breakfast in the hotel restaurant and then went to the lobby and caught a cab to go to the port area again. We had booked another tour that was supposed to be a ride on a boat down river to a place called Canyon St. Anne. Wanda and Peggy met us at the boat dock and we got on a small, enclosed, water taxi. It’s a good thing it was enclosed because the weather was terrible. It was cold and windy, the worst weather day we have had on the entire trip and it had to be on the day we were on a small boat. We went up river to a dock, and then had to take a bus to the canyon. The canyon is on private property and has been developed as a tourist attraction. Jackie didn’t want to walk the canyon, but I went and did the entire one mile round trip. The canyon is spectacular with waterfalls and rapids. I took lots of pictures. While I was doing that Wanda and Jackie took a zip line ride that took them over the same area in which I was walking. We spent a couple of hours there and then had to catch the boat back at 4:00. We got back to Quebec City and went to the hotel. We had to say goodbye to Wanda and Peggy because they are leaving very early in the morning to fly back to California. Our plane doesn’t leave until afternoon. After we got back to the hotel we rested for a while, then went down to the hotel restaurant for dinner. We had a really nice dinner and then we went up to the revolving restaurant on the roof for a night cap. The view from up there was fabulous. After that we went down and went to bed.
Friday, September 20th, was our return to Las Vegas day. We had lunch in the hotel, then caught a cab to the airport. We were flying Air Canada back to Las Vegas. Our flight got out on time, about 3:30, and flew to Toronto, which was only a 45 minute flight. We then had a long layover in Toronto before catching the flight to Las Vegas. Both flights were crowded and uncomfortable. Flying today is torture unless you can go first class. We got into Vegas just before midnight. After we got our bags we took the shuttle to the motel where we left our car. We got into the car and drove to Arizona Charlie’s Hotel and casino to spent the night. We didn’t want to drive over the hill in the dark this late and this tired. We settled into the room and went to sleep.
Saturday, September 21st, we checked out of the hotel, had lunch and then drove over the hill to Pahrump. After we got home we found the house just as we left it. We unpacked and stared doing laundry and putting things away. We did go to happy hour to see our friends at 4:00. We went home and relaxed with the TV the rest of the night. Sunday was also a work at home day getting all cleaned up from the trip. We went to the ice cream social and then back home. We pretty much got everything done, all the laundry done and everything put away by the time it was time for bed.
Monday, September 23rd was pretty much a stay at home day for me. I had a lot of stuff from Silver Seekers I had to catch up on. Jackie went in the afternoon for a mani appointment. We went to happy hour and then relaxed the rest of the night. Tuesday I had an appointment in Las Vegas in the afternoon to set up the appointments for taking care of my cataracts. I went through a bunch of tests and then worked with the assistant to set up the surgery dates. They will do one eye the second week of November and then the other one two weeks later. Kind of scary but everyone tells me I will see much better. Jackie had to drive home because they had dilatated my eyes. We got back in time for happy hour, after which we had dinner and relaxed with the TV until bedtime.
Wednesday, September 25th, we were finally back on a normal schedule. I went to guitar practice with my friend Len over to another friend’s house. Jackie went to play Pokeno. After our fun times we went to happy hour then had dinner and watched TV until bedtime. We have a lot of TV to catch up on from being gone two weeks. Thursday, we ran some errands and then worked around the house. We had a pot luck in the clubhouse at 4:00 with some very good food and time with friends. After the pot luck we went home and watched TV until bedtime.
Friday, September 27th, I had appointment with our new dentist. Neither of us liked the way our old dentist ran his office. He seemed to not care much about his patient’s time. The new dentist did some x-rays and wrote up a plan that included a deep cleaning, a root canal and crown for a bad tooth, and new partial dentures. Our insurance will pick up half or so of the cost. I set up some appointments for December because I didn’t want to mess with dental stuff during the time I am doing the cataract thing in November. We went to happy hour, then had dinner and relaxed for the rest of the night. Saturday we had a 10:00 meeting of the Silver Seekers to finalize the October calendar. Then we just worked around the house the rest of the day. After dinner I had my first night of Security Duty. After that we watched TV and went to bed.
Sunday, September 29th, we pretty much just stayed around the house, went to the ice cream social, had dinner and watched TV. I had security again tonight. Monday, the last day of October. We were headed back into Las Vegas about 11:00 so I could go to Costco to get my hearing tested and get fitted for new hearing aids. My last set finally wore out after seven years. I used Millie’s late husband Dick’s for a while after mine broke. He and I got them in Mexico at the same place and time. They were not perfect, but they did work for me for about 8 months before they too quit working. We had lunch at the Omelet house then went to Costco. Jackie shopped while I got tested. I was surprised at how thorough the test was. After the testing the technician showed me the various brands they carried and tried them on me to see what I liked. I decided on the one’s made by Phillips. I have to come back in week to pick them up. After all that we headed back to Pahrump. We went to happy hour, then home to relax with the TV the rest of the evening.
That is now finally the end of this episode, which is quite long because of the cruise. Until next time, be happy, be safe and have fun. Bye.
