Yesterday afternoon our friends Dave and Marcia on Juniata motored in to the anchorage. It was so good to see them again. We have not seen them since last May. After they got settled and we got together and played the "What did you do over the summer" game. It was wonderful hearing their stories. Dinner at the Porto Bello Restaurant lead into more conversation and more great stories. It's to bad that they are on a fast track to Mazatlan. They left early this morning.

Good friends are like a cup of hot tea and a good book on a cold winters day. As of now we are still on our plan to mosey on down to La Paz and meet up with Apolima and then make our way farther south to Mazatlan to meet up with Juniata. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I have been invited to go to the spa with seven other women and hopefully new friends. We eight girls are going to the spa to be pampered. I think I will have a pedicure. I am told that they have a jacuzi there and while some of the girls are getting their pampering the rest of us will wait in the jacuzi for our turn. SOUNDS LIKE A MARVALOUS DAY!! What girl would not like it??????

Now, the news with the puppies. We have took Lucy off the dry Buffalo Blue dog food yesterday and this morning her bowls seem to be better. The jury is still out. Some of you may ask why I would put this in the blog, well Taco and Lucy have some special grandparents that are concerned.

Let me digress way back to the begining when the crusing decision was made. We told people that we were going crusing and the response was interesting. Pictures of cruise ships danced in their minds. When we told them we were going on our boat and that the cruise ship would have to find someone else, they still had maid service, buffets and live entertainment in their thoughts. Well, we are on a cruise ship and this is how it goes:

On our cruise ship we have maid service and I am the maid, we have midnight buffets (if wanted) and I am the chef, we even have live entertainment, dolphins, whales, birds and now two puppies. We even have water sports, snorkeling, dive plane and lets not forget fishing. We even have a captain in the cockpit and maintence man whom we call Russ.

So I guess you could say that we are on a cruise ship, just not the 1000 ft one.

Well if you have never been to the Loretto Spa, then you are missing out. The pedicure is the best one I have ever had. The half hour massage was pretty darn good also. Loretto spa is a class A place and I look forward to going back in May. There were eight ladies and we all had different treatments. To start they gave us our choice of water, coffee, tea or white wine and to go along with that there was a cheese and cracker plate complete with green olives and chocolate, also an apple plate with a couple different kinds cut into slices. Now that we have been greeted it was time for the pedicure. Four of us had a great relaxing time in the massage chairs with a glass of wine and a pedicure technician working on our feet. It does not get any better than this. The only problem is that when it was all said and done we were so relaxed that all we wanted to do is go take a nap. What a great day.

Cheers to all and have a splended day.