Cruising Fun!

The only issue I really have with trying to get my blog voice again, is what the heck do I blog about?  How do some of you bloggers come up with posts every couple of days?  Maybe I am overthinking things a bit.  Anyway, let me know where you all get your inspiration from!

I thought well, I can write a post about some of our travels.  It's been pretty quiet here at the homestead for a while, we have made a couple of trips to our younger son's place this summer for a few days at a time, they only live a couple hours away so it's a fairly frequent trip for us.

We have a cruise coming up in 17 days, our first to Alaska.  Very excited about going and can barely contain myself, lol.  However, we did take a 6 night cruise in April, from Los Angeles to Vancouver, BC on the Norwegian Bliss.  We had a lot of fun, but it was too short!  We traveled with our friends Bill and Ruth, Steve and Bev, Frank and Mary Ellen, and Doug and Debbie.  It's always fun to travel with these friends and this is the 3rd time we have cruised with them.

We started out by flying to Los Angeles and boarding the ship on Sunday, April 28th.  The first day and night was spent trying to figure out where things were and of course, eating!

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Bill and Ruth flew to L.A. with us, they live nearby!

 

Debbie, Carl and Doug
 







Balcony Breakfast

Sailing in to San Francisco

The ten of us rented a Limo in Victoria, BC

Sailing into Vancouver BC

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Steve, Frank, Bill and Doug

Ruth, Debbie, Mary Ellen and Bev

Vancouver Bus Station, yes, we took a bus

Customs check point

Yum, Beechers Mac and Cheese at Seattle airport

At the end of our trip, we ended up needing to find transportation to SEATAC airport.  After some crazy figuring things out, we ended up taking a bus from Vancouver to Seattle.  It was some unplanned stress at the end of our cruise, but it all worked out fine!  And then before we knew it, we were home once again...

 

 

 





Honor Flight for my Veteran!

My husband, Carl and our dear friend Billy were selected to travel to Washington, DC in June with Honor Flight Nevada!  What an honor for these two proud veterans!  They traveled from Reno to Washington, DC with almost 50 other veterans on a 4 day whirlwind trip.  Their expenses were all paid for thanks to donations and corporate sponsors.  A once in a lifetime experience, for sure.

They flew out of Reno very early on Thursday, June 6th.  The next few days were filled with visiting different memorials and museums.  They traveled to the sites on wonderful luxury buses accompanied by law enforcement motorcycle escorts.

Warning, this post will be picture heavy!

 Carl is ready to go!

 Picking up Billy

 The Nevada memorial

 Their group

 Audie Murphy's Grave

 World War II Memorial

 Pentagon



Pentagon Memorial from 9/11

 

 Carl with his Quilt of Valor

 Billy with his quilt

 Ruth and I waiting for their arrival home

 

 

They arrived home in Reno on Sunday, June 9th to a huge welcome home crowd!  It was so touching to see the care and love these veterans received.  A big surprise to us was each returning veteran was given a Quilt of Valor, handmade for each veteran by the Comstock Lode Quilting Guild.  Each veteran's quilt was personalized with their full name, branch of service, years served and date they were presented with their quilt.  This quilt will be treasured as long as he lives and then hopefully treasured by our sons.

 

I hope you enjoyed the journey!  I would love to read your comments!



 

A Northern Nevada Summer

Hello on Pink Saturday! It's just been a beautiful summer here in Northern Nevada.  I was remarking to my dear friend Ruth just this evening that we have not had one day yet hit 100 degrees.  This time last year we had quite a few.  Makes for pleasant days and lovely evenings in our beautiful region of the country.

I took this picture of our home a couple of weeks ago, the plants and tree have survived 3 harsh winters and each summer everything comes back even better.

 

 Well, that's about it for today.  Please stop by and visit with Beverly at How Sweet the Sound and see what all the Pinkies are up to!  Have a wonderful weekend!