Escorted Trips
7/28/2021 8:50:00 AM Link | | Add comment
Hello everyone: All of us are back working again. Apparently my planning was not good, everyone was responsible for a trip at the same time. Although we felt like we were on revolving doors, our phones transferred calls to each of us, as many of you may know. Anyhow, thanks to all our clients willing to wait until we returned. Lucky enough no emergency calls!
George and I escorted the “New England Cruise.” We traveled with four ladies from Waco and boarded our Royal Caribbean Cruise after a night in Boston. George just told everyone he was from Utah and these were his five wives.“Later we discovered there were many on the ship who had actually believed him.
Cindy went with “Cindy’s Fun Bunch” on Carnival from Galveston. They had a great time and ready to go again.
Agaytha did the short Big City Trip to Buffalo, NY and “Niagara Falls.”
Pat went to Scotland to research our 2016 Scots Irish Tour. So, like I said my planning wasn't good with everyone out of town at the same time.
Just a little about our ports on the New England cruise:
Actually it was scheduled as a Fall Foliage cruise, but due to lack of rain the leaves were just in the beginning stages of changing and personally I went for the lighthouses. There are so many between Nova Scotia and Boston that it’s almost a parade of lighthouses. You might say I have a lighthouse fetish. Every place we have traveled if they had a lighthouse, we saw it.
All of our ports had either a cold rain or mist when we arrived but cleared within the hour. Although windy and chilly, it wasn’t bad at all.
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick: We took a small boat to see the coast line of lighthouses, three to be exact. However, our guide was a marine biologist and also educated us on lobsters, too.
Kellyann pulled up a lobster trap and passed a male lobster around for everyone to hold while explaining the difference in a male and female lobster and included their breeding habits.She called the male Larry and the female LaVerne.
“The one to the right was Larry.” Males are just looking for a one night stand and never return to the same mate twice. They are much longer and narrower than the female. I may joke about this, but it was extremely interesting.
Upon our return to Halifax she escorted us to Murphy’s where we enjoyed a “whole lobster” for lunch. It was about the size of Larry, 1.5 or 2 pounds. She also taught us the proper way to consume a lobster; one piece at a time.
After spending a little time walking around their quaint town we boarded our ship in time for the next meal. We had located a little restaurant on board “Seaside Café,” where we usually went for our afternoon snacks. Royal Caribbean offers specialty restaurants on board where you make a reservation and pay a fee, but this one is complimentary and specializes in light snacks, sandwiches, fish and chips, soups and salads.
Check next week for more information about our New England Cruise.
