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Published: January 21st 2010
Mana @ the Golden Gate
A Christmas Day CruiseOur three weeks at home were fast and furious. We disembarked the Mariner on Dec 20, hired a car in Los Angeles and stopped in San Luis Obispo to visit my sister Judy and her family. We celebrated birthdays and Christmas and Judy’s good health and then headed up to Pebble Beach for a crab feast with John and Jeannie. After three and one half months away we walked down the dock to our boat in Sausalito and were greeted by friends bearing gifts of flowers and wine. We had the car unloaded and the boat shipshape within a few hours and we were ready to settle in for the holidays and our brief interlude at home.
On Christmas Eve we had a dine-around on the marinas’ three Krogen Manatees. Charlie and Pat lined the docks with Mexican luminaires (glowing candles in bags) and we had appetizers on Carol and Alan’s Tortuga and then Kevin’s famous “Seizure” Salad on Mana and enjoyed the main course and a white elephant gift exchange on Glen and Christy’s Sirena. Each Krogen’s decorations reflect the individual style of her owners. We took our home for a Christmas cruise around San Francisco Bay on a
JUDY
Susan's #2 Sister beautiful winter’s day.
It so happened that the Emerald Bowl was being held at the Giant’s ballpark in San Francisco the day after Christmas. So we cruised over to South Beach and went to the football game between USC and Boston College. It was a good game and the USC Band put on a terrific half-time show, albeit in the rain.
This was the first time in a number of years that we have been in Sausalito for New Year’s Eve. Again, we stuck close to home for a celebration and watched the San Francisco fireworks show from our marina. We enjoyed an evening walk on the last day of 2009 with a full moon lighting our way. The rest of our stay was filled with socializing with friends, getting immunizations and checkups for the upcoming trip, unpacking and repacking and sitting in the cockpit of our boat and reflecting on the past year and planning for the next year.
It is hard to believe that we are beginning our tenth world cruise. When we went around the world for the first time in 2001 on the Seabourn Sun, we figured that it was a once in
a lifetime event. Fortunately that has not been the case and here we are ten years later just as excited about circumnavigating the globe as we were the first time. Often we have been asked if we don’t get tired of this cruising life. We give a resounding “no” to that question. As a matter of fact, the world cruising experience just keeps getting better and more interesting as each year passes. We are truly fortunate to be able to travel the world. Cruising with good friends on a beautiful ship is just the frosting on the globe.
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Bonnie
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So tell me, what's in Kevin's "seizure" salad???