Northern Ireland - Giant's Causeway Revisited!

Thanks for all of the great comments - we can't wait to hug all of you as well! Each day gets better, although today was a long day. We rode in a bus for a few hours from the port of Belfast to the northern coast to see the Giant's Causeway an amazing geological formation and lots of beautiful seacoast. We sent postcards to the kids with pictures of the rocks. (Although they will be mailed from who knows where so don't look for them too soon.) I am going to call everyone on Sunday when we know where you'll be. That will be a sea day for us between Iceland and Greenland. I can't wait. My head still hurts when I try to think too much and Mom keeps telling me to stop thinking! I am totally under her control from now on after putting her through all of this! Love you lots, Pa.

Revisited - Giant's Causeway

Scotland! Revisited!

Today was a great day. Mom and I left Glasgow south to Ayr and Culzean Castle on the Firth of Clyde. The Scottish scenery was beautiful, with grazing Highland cattle and sheep. A typical Scottish day with misty fog and a slight "smir" (misty rain). We sent postcards to all of the grandkids of the castle. My memory is still a little foggy, but my health is good. I am having a little trouble retaining short term memory, but fortunately, I remember that which matters most! Talk to you tomorrow.

Culzean Castle

Scottish Coast!

Life is Good - Ireland Revisited!

Well, like John Lennon said life is what happens when you're making other plans! A lot has changed since our last blog in Copenhagen. Pa "wigged out" as we are calling it, and made me really worried for a while there. He is gettting back to his old self now, just tired, headachy and frustrated. He wants to get well instantly! We had a good day today. We were docked off Waterford, Ireland and spent a few hours in the Irish countryside at a ruined abbey and picturebook village. It was very nice and green, very much like I expected Ireland to be. Lovely but nowhere near as nice as England, especially the Cotswolds. When we got back Dad took a nap and I went to workout and walk around the top deck. The Star Princess is the same size as the Grand, about 100 feet longer than the Sea Princess that we were on last summer, in other words, massive. You would all be interested to know that they have a pretty decent rock band playing in one of the lounges, but since the average passenger age seems to be 153 there is hardly anyone listening to them! We are going to have dinner in the Italian restaurant tonight where it is a little more private. We usually just eat in our suite because we don't feel like socializing that much. Any road, we are off now to Glasgow Scotland and I think Dad will be up for another shore excursion tomorrow. Thanks for all the prayers and love, we feel it way over here! We are especially anxious to see Andrew, Ethan, Emma, Annie, Jack, Max, Audrey, Parker, Miles, Mabel and Oliver when we return. It's going to be the Pa road trip!! Talk to you tomorrow.

Revisited -

The White Cliffs of Dover at Sunset after reboarding the Ship.

Jerrpoint Abbey in the Republic of Ireland.

A small and quaint Irish village.

Copenhagen Temple - revisited!

We have good news and bad news today! The good news is that we found the temple this morning and took some great pictures of it. We made it just fine to our fabulous ship the Star Princess only to find that they do not allow anyone to upload pictures through their computers for security reasons. So the pictures will have to wait until we find an internet cafe on some of our many shore excursions. Otherwise we will post a blog every evening with our days activities and location. We love all of you! By the way, the temple has been built inside the old meeting house that we all attended church in when we were in Copenhagen in 1986. It is very lovely and classical looking with big white columns in a nice quiet part of the city, but very much surrounded by other buildings. We will be in Canterbury England on Sunday when we will blog again.

Blog revisited with a picture of the Temple!

Denmark!

We had a few hours in Copenhagen. We tried to find the Temple on foot, but alas, no luck. Here is the view from our room. We did find Masumasu, continuing our tradition of eating Japanese food in random places throughout the world. We visited the Royal Palace and Tivoli. On to the ship tomorrow.