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PK
07-18-2009, 09:36 PM
the past few weeks... haven't been online for most of that time

the shortened version.... my older 82 yr old cousin.. actually my Mom's cousin--my 2nd cousin.. went into the hospital for severe back pain about 3-4 weeks ago..after about a week they sent her to a rehab/nursing home for in-house rehab... caught pneumonia there... transferred her to another hospital's ICU where she went into a coma and passed away on June 30th... pretty healthy lady for her age.. no medical problems .. kinda scarry...

on the early morning of June 30th we left for Brooklyn--the Sheepshead Bay area-- where she lived with her older sister not too far from where I grew up... when we got there we found out she passed away that morning.... after the funeral on Friday we decided to stay in Brooklyn to help her sister get settled ... wound up staying 8 days..we always were a pretty close knit family and lived close to each other.... then had to leave for Long Island as Pat had a bridal shower to go to.. stayed there for another 5 days...

this past Monday left LI and stopped over in Atlantic City as we usually do on the drive back --stayed in Harrahs on a 3 nite comp.. hooked up with Bob AC/NJ formerly of the GG Board way back when.. when we head to AC we always hang out with Bob and his wife.. dinners... fishing etc... Bob was nice enuff to take me fishing on his boat two days for Fluke( summer flounder)... caught a lot of shorts--mucho many-- ( NJ has 18" and a 6 bag limit) Bob caught a nice 23" fluke.. along with a 21" one.. I had a 21" and a 19" besides all the shorts and throwbacks.. Bob runs a fishing charter service--AC Lighttackle http://www.aclighttackle.com -- these days after he retired from the AC Police Dept

got back home Thursday evening... all I can say is.. that darn place up there in NY is crowded as heck--especially Brooklyn...first time I've stayed over in Brooklyn since 1960... it sure is good to be back home though... ahhhh!

JD
07-20-2009, 09:06 AM
Glad you had a safe trip Ray. Trust Bob and Rosie are doing well. So, when's the next cruise?

PK
07-20-2009, 08:11 PM
Glad you had a safe trip Ray. Trust Bob and Rosie are doing well. So, when's the next cruise?

it's definitely good to be back home though...I'm all 'New Yorked-out' 13 days there was enuff.. and I have to do it again in September for two weddings two weeks apart.. one on Long Island and one near Cape Cod with a stayover in between them for about a week in Brooklyn again... yowsa

yop on Bob and Rosie...they are doing well...

looks like the next cruise(s) will be back to back during the Christmas-New Years Holidays... a 10 day to the Western Caribbean.. followed by an 11 day to the Southern Caribbean.. we don't do any cruisin' this time of year in the summer months.. if we find a 'deal' in late Oct-early November we'll do one then also like we usually do

we wanted to do a 33 day to Hawaii and Polynesia or a 15 day just to Hawaii early next January out of San Diego but couldn't hook up with the right cruise connections to get from Ft Laud and back thru the Canal to make it either 43 or 61 days total.. so we settled for just the Holiday cruises for now... will try again to make it w*rk probably in late 2010 and early 2011