2024 Christmas Pictures updated 12/15/24

Karen and Katie at the "Living Desert Zoo" on our "after Christmas" Palm Desert trip 12/27/23

Kaitlyn and Katie coloring Easter eggs 3/31/24

Going through the Mangrove Tunnel at Roatan 1/23/24  port stop for NCL's Prima

This is what the tunnel looked like, lots and lots of Mangroves

Playa Mia unlimited food, drinks, water park etc. at Cozuemel 1/24/24

Playa Mia seating, never was full, but food not so good, small selection and coldish

Two of the tourists at Playa Mia

Dinner at San Marcos Mexican grill, very good with great prices, Marianna, FL

Fancy custom pictures on chairs, tables at San Marcos Mexican grill 1/28/24

Familiar looking lady at Downtown Disney, now known as Disney Springs  1/31/24

2/1/24  Minature golf at Winter Course near Blizzard Beach, Katie and I both scored 49 on par 56 course!

Our hotrod rented in Texas, parked in front of our Holiday Inn Orange Lake, standalone duplexunit 208 very nice and convenient!

We have been used to big buildings with a long way to walk from parking to unit.  1/29/24

Interesting place we found for dinner "Ford's Garage" on Sunset Walk across from the Holiday Inn entrance

Note the old time gas pumps, lots of this kind of stuff around the restaurant 2/2/24

Sinks at the "Ford's Garage" restaurant's men's room.  Note the unusual faucets.

Katie had to hit her favorite slot machine at the Atlantis Resort Casino, Bahamas 2/5/24

A shot of the decor inside the casino.

Cosumel, Mexico Katie headed down the dock toward town. Our Celebrity Ascent on the right  2/7/24

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Katie checking out the deck lighting at night.  2/8/24

This is "Hell" at Grand Cayman, due to the very rough terrain!  2/9/24

Colorful entrance to the turtle farm, Grand Cayman.  2/8/24

Some of the turtles in one of the tanks at the Grand Cayman Turtle Farm 2/8/24

OK here's something we had not noticed before, this is a turtle "back scratcher" or shell scratcher, must really feel good

Our "Tender" boat about to take us back to our ship from Grand Cayman (no big docks there yet)

Wonder what we look like before flying home?  If I look pooped then its accurate Note the backpack and two suitcases that I haul around. 2/11/24

Dinner 6-24-24 first night on Hawaii Marriott Waikoloa Village Resort.  Kings Shops, A-Bays restaurant noisy, slow service, expensive food

Ethan, Payton/Taylor, Trevor, Hugo, Jennifer

Rest of our dinner party Hugo again, Jennifer, Liberty, Katie

View from our balcony, room 6107      6-25-24

We only had to pay for half of Ethan's food from now on, only half here!   6-25-24

Visit to city of refuge near Kona, 6-27-24 Jennifer and Liberty, grandma Bickerdike's ashes are spread at this location

that she loved so much and we camped there in 1960.

Grandkids Taylor, Trevor, Payton and Ethan (photobombing)

This is a US postage stamp made from the original Tiki that Virginia Bickerdike carved in 1966

during the City of Refuge restoration.  Look up family and friends and parents, Pete's Parents,  click on stamp picture for article.

Now Maui, view from our Maui Marriott room 3015 on Kannapali Beach 6-30-24

Sand sculpture in the Marriott's lobby 7-4-24

Katie on our Maui balcony dressed up for July 4th!   7-4-24

Ti leaf lei making class taught by Kaluna (night auditor at resort) at the Sheraton Coconut Beach Resort, Kauai  7-6-24

Finished lei being modeled by Katie 7-6-24

We're  on the Holland America's Nieu Statendam, headed out of Amsterdam bound for Norway. 

This is the bridge cam showing the locks that had picketers recently blocking the ships in and out. 

Fortunately not here today.  We're in balcony accessable cabin 5052    8/24/24

Tyholt Tower in Trondheim, Norway Egon restaurant on top 8/27/24

Katie pointing out to Jon places she rememberd from Trondheim.  Jon and his wife gave us a great tour

and we ended up at the previous tower for lunch 8/27/24

Lunch in the tower with Jon, wife, Ingebjorg, Katie overlooking Trondheim.  8/27/24

One of the interesting restaurant dividers. this one was sewing machines, another was typewriters 8/27/24

Jon and Ingebjord's son, Daniel and his wife Su checking out the menu.  8/27/24

Katie with friend, Honningsvag, Norway port 8/29/24

North coast of Norway at Nordkapp   8/29/24

Tromso, Norway on a bus tour, very cold, rainy, windy took a funicular up to this lookout point 8/30/24

Looking down on Tromso from the top of the funicular, if you look very carefully you will see our

ship almost in the center of the picture 8/30/24

Our last Norway stop. Leknes at the Lofoten Islands, note the fish farms off to the left of the bus (circles) 8/31/24

We were on the bus back to the ship on Leknes tour. 8/31/24

Shetland Islands, port was Lerwick with namesake ponies 9/2/24

Our tender port in South Queensferry, Scotland, taxi tour took us to where JK Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter books

Closed for remodeling but a substitute opened down the street. 9/5/24

Main showroom on ship, amazing use of huge displays all (except the suitcases) on the left is all

video display as well as the displays surrounding the audience on both sides of the state (brown panels above)

Sea day 9-8-24

Some of the bicycle art we found on the street at Weymouth, port was Portland 9/9/24

Katie with her favorite flower arrangement on the ship 9/10/24

Another view of the ship's theatre, note there are no lights on the walls everything from the seats up to the white

lights are video screens with "x" patterns 9/14/24

Hop on Hop off bus Cadiz, Spain 9/15/24

Beach at Cadiz, Spain 9/15/24

Fancy bridge at Cadiz, Spain 9/15/24

View from ship at Gilbralter, UK note runway at far left, crosses highway and traffic halts when in use 9/15/24

Leaving Gilbralter 9/16/24

Barcelona, Spain from the top of the hop on hop off bus, this was the top of one of the bus stops

look carefully and see all the discarded headphones (free on the bus) 9/19/24

Sendoff from Southampton of the Sun Princess traveling to Ft. Lauderdale Non accessable cabin

15311 9/23/24

Vigo, Spain, view from our cabin.  Went into this shopping center to find something, Media Mart is like a

Best Buy 9/26/24

Attack of the towel animals, sea day Sun Princess 9/28/24

Madeira, Portugal winding up hop-on-hop-off bus tour, our ship mid frame 9/29/24

Santa Crux, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain this was the ship that just refueled us with LNG (ship burns

liquid natural gas) 9/30/24

Katie at the princess choir performance note fellow at right with dog he was doing signing 10/7/24

End of pictures 2024

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