Sunday, October 27, 2013

vacation

Life is good and we are still counting our blessings after the awful start to our holiday on October 14th.  Here is one of our biggest blessings.

Pam, Anita, Emma, Noah, B&B(aka Goofy)
Michael Nicholas and Leah

I insisted that we all stand together for this photo in Disneyland since the next day Michael and family were going home.  So often in the past we always said, oh we'll get one of everybody together the next time.....next time sometimes doesn't come.  So out came the cameras, we flagged down some Disney employees and here is one of the results.  Beautiful as usual!

We don't get together enough and we all laughed about how funny it was to have this little reunion in California.  I don't care where it is, we did it!

We had a great time with our son and daughter-in-law Nicholas and Pam, brother Michael and sister-in-law Anita and the kids Noah, Emma and Leah.  We love you all and we would not have missed this for the world.

We arrived on the 14th at Long Beach and stayed on the Queen Mary.  Nicholas and Pam got there on the 16th and joined us "on board".  Michael and family were in Anaheim really close to Disneyland.







In 1987 we took our boys to Disneyland and we took a tour of the Queen Mary.  We always thought it would be fun to stay on board.  Finally, 26 years later and that became a reality.  It is different to say the least.  We kept getting turned around since it is comprised of many decks, stairs and elevators. 

hot salt, hot fresh, cold fresh, cold salt
the salt water did not turn on I tried


 
Just like it was in the '30s

A real ship's toilet with the Shank's push off to the right






I know, who takes pictures of the toilet?  Me.
 
 


Long narrow hall from the main hall to our room