WHY??????? Panama Canal Part 13

 Why do Senior Citizens go on cruises

 If not to defend country, explore, research, educate, medicate?

Why?

Don’t you know?

To brag about all the other cruises they’ve been on;

Or maybe their illustrious careers

And the famous people they know personally.

Since they sit with different people at the table each day

They can repeat it 3xday for 2 weeks.

On our table for three,

We were denied that advantage.

Nevertheless, we could hear people from other tables

(well, one of us could).

Not to be outdone,

We devised our own parody:

Remember the time we cruised down the Volga River

and stayed overnight in Denver?

When we woke up the next morning there

was 3 feet of snow on the ground.

The Kangaroos didn’t know what to do,

so Ed petted them.

Excuse me for interrupting,

but we ourselves visited every temple in the South Pacific.

Isn’t that just divinely terrific?

What do you know about the Mormon Church?

Would you like to know more?

We got pretty good on that

whistle we bought in Wales

to command the sheep dogs.

Then Cai boarded the train and

we went to Sacramento and Santa Barbara.

And how about celebrating New Year’s Eve

on the French/German border

with Helmut and friends?

And the Crown Jewels at the Kremlin

and viewing Lenin’s body?

Haunting.

Oh, yes, we visited the Suez Canal years ago.

This is our squat-down jillionent cruise.

Te-he-he.

That reminds me of our trip down the Thames

while climbing the Eiffel Tower.

Remember when little Brooke surfed on Wikiki

then got left in the lurch at Grand Central Station?

Amy wasn’t even born when

when she went to Disneyland the first time;

It seemed only the next week

she celebrated her 18^th birthday at the Louvre.

Can we ever forget taking the ferry to the Statue of Liberty

after walking the Freedom Trail

when our motorhome was stolen?  Believe me.

And then the time we stayed snuggled in bed
while Ed got up at 3 AM to ride the camels

to the Top of Mt Sinai to see the sunrise.

Remember our million-dollar condo in San Diego

where the ocean lapped at our sliding doors

during our Lake Powell houseboat adventures?

At our ancestral home in Scotland,

Ed shook hands with the President of the United States.

Or was it was the Governor?

I’ve forgotten, dear.

I do remember Brent spending a semester abroad

looking for the Loch Ness Monster in Austria

and all throughout Asia and Europe.

It was the most amazing coincidence

when we all met at Wall Drug

and took pictures of us riding the Jackolope.

I’m not exaggerating.  Nope.

We didn’t know for three days

that the Great Pyramids of Egypt

were right outside our window at Bob Creek.

To top off the evening,

DeRay seriously starting bragging

about his career when he was the General at HAFB

and single-handedly designed the space shuttle,

giving birth to the Space Program,

while flying on AirForce I.

Oh, here’s the dessert.

Yummy double-chocolate pudding cake

With four scoops of vanilla ice cream.

Two servings each?

It’s been nice talking to you.

Let's keep in touch.

 SNOW??????

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