Good morning dear friends. Today is a day of memory and silence for the bombings in London. There will be a minute of memory at 11am, and at Mass we prayed for God’s mercy for both victims of terrorism and the terrorists. It seems we are doing this a lot lately… and it is a problem that we don’t have a state or a head of state to talk to and to prosecute. Pray for God’s mercy. Today I peeked outside as I went for early coffee and dear Mother Nature is having another temper tantrum. We need sunshine to heat up the solarium so Susie can swim today. I swam yesterday and it was nice and I plan to swim today too. I like it when my friends join me and we bounce around and gossip in the warm water! We have settled into a routine here on the sea. We awake around 7 to 8 and check our watches to see what time it is… It is constantly dark in our inside cabin, but we would not be able to even open our door in this weather! I get coffee and then go to daily Mass with a priest from Connecticut. Then we eat breakfast in the Kings Court (on RCCL this is called the Windjammer). I then fit in a lecture, a swim for me and an afternoon entertainment (busy busy). Yesterday we watched a very funny Midsummer Night’s Dream and today is 2 1/2 hours of Carmen the opera. I might miss that. We have books to read. The lectures are by a gentleman who has made the architecture of sky scrapers his life’s work… Yesterday he started with the Flat Iron Building and today is the Empire State Building. Very interesting! Sky Scrapers couldn’t be considered until the problems of plumbing that could get up to heights and elevators. We intersperse activities with pub lunch in the Red Lion Pub, Wimbledon (yesterday we watched Serena Williams pummel her sister Venus). Today is quarter finals. We dress for dinner every night (4 formal nights and all others are jacket for Chuck and dress for me. ) We have met several wonderful friends and expect to fill Miami with Scottish accents and some wonderful fun! We’ve met American and British submarine veterans, have dinner with a Korean Marine veteran, and I plan to spend some time with an American Anglican vicar to understand our mutual beliefs. All is well. Let us be peaceful today. Let us remember the mercy of God. God bless you.
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