THE FAREWELL COCKTAIL PARTY

My hot date for the night.

The music was wonderful, as usual.

Donna and our friend, Susie.

Marco, the computer specialist prepared a slide show, which included a summary of our trip along with photographs of the crew and the guests. It was wonderfully done, and he played it behind the extraordinary ice sculpture created for the night.

Jamie, the cruise director, with Wendy, the manager of the casino and Oliver. he hotel director. They are about to draw the winner for a one carat diamond pendant.

The captain gave us a wonderful Maurice Chevalier imitation.

Many of the wonderful staff were on stage for a last bow.

Our last look at chocolate sculpture.

It was a good idea for the cruise line to arrange to ship most of our luggage back to New York. I am glad we did not have to show up at the airport and try to explain that these were all ours. To get some perspective, concerning the amount of luggage, that's Donna behind the bags. Yikes!!!!! The good news is that the bags weren't too heavy because half of them were just carrying Donna's new shoes.