July 15, 2024

Back in my Happy Place!

I'm back! No trip home would be complete without a visit to my happy place Ocean City, New Jersey! I took NJ transit from 30th street station to Absecon ( stop before Atlantic City)  and my good friend Bonnie picked me up. Easy Peasy! Bonnie and Steve are the friends that hooked me up with my fabulous stay in Mexico for the month of January and offered me a stay in their lovely OCNJ home, this weekend. Bonnie is a beach and bike lover like myself and Steve is all about the fishing! I got in many bike rides courteous of my friend Laureen's beach cruiser, that Bonnie and Steve are currently housing for Laureen and Joe, since we have all sold our OCNJ homes.

On Thursday night after dinner, Bonnie and I went for a walk down to my old neighborhood. As we came up to the block, a huge rainbow lit up the sky and when we walked to my old house lot - I saw pansy flowers randomly popping up all among the plowed lot!

I took this as a special Hi and so happy to see you here, from Mom and Dad! So many great memories here!

Got to have some great beach time and circle conversations with my brother Michael and wife Joyce and friends Aida & Joe DeColli & Bonnie - also got to catch up with old neighborhood friends Kyle and Brian & Rose.

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Angie & Gian's Wedding - Part 2
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On April 30th, Angie and Gian , a shipboard sweet couple that meet during the dry dock delays in Belfast , seven months ago, got married with just 28 close family and friends, at sunset in the Observatory Lounge. They then did another " Tying the knot ceremony" for the entire ship on May 1st on the pool deck, officiated by Captain Val . After each service was a special dinner one in the Thistle Dining room and the other at the Outdoor deck of Palms Restaurant. The above video done by VVR Marketing shows the highlights. I ended up being the Wedding Resident Coordinator for the couple and I have a ton of the behind the scene photos of how it all came about. It was a lot of work, but I got to interact with so many great people and really enjoyed the challenge, logistics and organization of the whole thing! It brought so many residents together, in a common bond, it was really something special to have played such a major role.