Aug 25 2008
The convention in Denver is competing with tennis for my attention - Blake is playing. The repeating vocabulary I heard describing Michelle Obama is ‘beautiful’ and ‘smart’. I won’t dispute her intelligence, a Harvard lawyer can’t be dumb and with $300,000 salary, she has to be smart. But beautiful??
1. It sounds like the over used term ‘classy’ [...]
Aug 25 2008
The wine bar at SEA, Seattle airport. How could it be? Those sleek life style thing should dotted ours. No disrepsect to others.
Are we ever, going to renovate the crumpling JFK, John F. Kennedy International Airport? Making it pleasing to the eye and functional? JFK was the first place I encountered when I came to New [...]
Aug 25 2008
The cruise decorator(s) has very good taste, the art works displaying around the ship are very beautiful.
Aug 25 2008
Cold, and lightless most months in a year, I was surprised to see those lovely flowers! They’re for real, put me to shame.
Aug 25 2008
I normally eat two meals a day. That was before knowing myself could eat so much! The Princess cruise ship has six restaurants (two are premium that require additional fees) and one buffet, endless food, very abundant, very American. They serve afternoon tea too. The white gloves were not quite there. After all, it’s a [...]
Aug 25 2008
Artist Howard Behrens was on board, selling his stuff. His wife was with him, so was his daughter. I don’t find his painting mastery, few actually very amateurish, as if unfinished. His wife on the booklet looked really slim and small. But when I saw her at the gathering, lord, she was huge. Howard looked [...]
Aug 25 2008
On Friday, the ship cooked up a chocolate storm before lunch (odd timing), as if we didn’t have enough to eat. I was dying of Tiramisu. The bakery staff did great job on Tiramisu, even only served it once (plenty at the feast - but who would have appetite that early?). The soufflé were good too [...]
Aug 25 2008
Contract bridge that is. Not surprisingly, I found bridge on the cruise. Jeanette gave an hour long lesson in the morning and an actual 2-hour play followed in the mid afternoon. The most players we had were 12 one afternoon. All of them are to be retirees or around that age.
I was often asked how long have I [...]