4/15-4/16 Ko Kood and at sea
The short version via pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/mpquinn/Asia2010
The narrative version:
4/7 – 4/8 Dallas to Singapore
4/9 – 4/10 Singapore
4/10 From the Ritz Carlton to the Seabourn Pride
4/11 – 4/12 At Sea
4/13 – 4/14 Laem Chabang
4/15-4/16 Ko Kood and at sea
4/17 – 4/19 Ho Chi Minh City (Siagon)
4/20 Da Nang
4/21 – 4/23 Halong Bay
4/24 Hong Kong
4/25 Homebound
Service Specific Comments on the Asia trip
4/15 Ko Kood
This is a sit on the beach day since Ko Kood is a resort island and we are stopping at one of the private beaches for the day.
Open water swim!
BBQ on the beach. Had lunch with Rich and Karen who summer in Idaho (at some mega rich place Brook has heard of but I never have) and winter in Palm Springs.
Brook has brought up Rachel several times with the conversation ending with her telling me to stop bringing her up. She completely disagrees that this is a true statement. So the phone rings about 90 minutes before dinner, and we are invited to a table that Rachel is hosting, I bust out laughing and accept. Brook was not as entertained was I was (though she was still quite amused), but we both knew that she would be an excellent table host and she was.
Dinner with Rachel the assistant cruise director. Regina and Ron from Miami, (Regina and Brook hit it right off, Ron and I were on either side of Rachel), Rod and Gaye from Australia (Rod’s hobby farm is 1400 head), Judy and Barry (I remember nothing about).
We learned all about Imre, the sous chef upstairs who is dating Rachel and pretty much got any question answered about Rachel, the staff or Seabourn that we could come up with. It was a very good hosted table.
4/16 At Sea
Dinner alone. Slept 2-3 hours after lunch and went to sleep fairly soon after dinner. Ended up sleeping 12 in 24 hours. The heat and sun the day before at Ko Kood probably did us in and maybe the tail end of jetlag.