September 14, 2025
The BeiJing Summer of 2008 Olympics have stuck in my memory for years - and I really wanted to see it at night all lite up!
The Bird's Nest and Water Cube were 2 of the coolest building designs, especially the lighting elements of them, I remember from an Olympics! This was the summer we all met Michael Phelps and Call me Maybe was a huge hit, and I could help singing it as we strolled the grounds. The village was used again partial with the Winter Olympics in 2022 and that was the introduction of Mascots Shuey Rhon Rhon for Paralympics and Bing Dwen Dwen ( both below).
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Thursday, October 23rd we arrived in the Port of Bitung, Indonesia to huge fan fare despite the pouring rain. Turns out we were the first cruise ship to visit this Port in a long time!
WOW!!! PALAU is the tropical Paradise I have been dreaming about! This is trip just reached a new level of OMG!!
Got to love a place that sells shirts saying " Where the heck is Yap? " Colonia ( population 3,100 ) is the Capital and Harbor town of Yap State ( population 11,600 ) one of four states in the Federated States of Micronesia. We are in the Pacific Ocean or Philippine Sea just north of the equator, Papua New Guinea and Australia.