The World According to Arlene

We recently went on a Disney cruise to Nassau, Castaway Cay (Disney's private Island) and then had a day at sea. We boarded the ship on Feb. 14 and disembarked about 9:00 am on Feb. 18. Our first night we had about 6 ft waves and it made a few in our party feel a bit under the weather. Even I felt a bit queasy now and again. When we awoke we were in beautiful Nassau the weather was a bit warmer probably upper 60's maybe 71. The Bahamians were all wearing there fleece and pretty much everyone who left the ship were in shorts. Such tourists.. LOL! Everyone in our party had an activity to do. I fortunately was the photographer for the dolphin group. Julie, Charlie and Matt were able to get in the water with some beautiful creatures who were very happy to see them. My favorite was that all the dolphins were there only because of injury and were being well cared for. A couple of them really liked having their picture taken. It was wonderful to interact with them through my camera..

Castaway Cay was our next day. It was overcast, windy and raining off and on in the morning. By midday the sun had come out, it was still pretty windy but at least it wasn't miserable. We went to the beautiful beach and I left on my clothes. It was just too cold for me to set foot in the water or anything. Now the boys did go swimming and were met in the water by several stingrays that would swim past just to check them out. Of course it freaked them out along with the grownups in the water. Not me I was safe on dry land just watching them coast by.

Our day at sea was nice. They turned the ship south and traveled a bit further into the Bahamas to try to give us warmer weather and calmer seas. I personally still wore my jacket the whole day. I didn't get much sun at all on our cruise. I stayed very covered and warm. They boys seemed to have a great day at sea, by this day they all had made lots of friends and enjoyed playing with them when ever they could. Before dinner we turned back north and headed for shore. We had fairly rough seas 16ft waves, but by the time we hit the worst of it mostly everyone was asleep of course except me.

We had to disembark early in the morning so we had a quick breakfast with our wonderful waitstaff and went ashore. Where we were greeted by more Disney people who put us on a bus to go to our hotel. We stayed at Disney's Coronado Springs resort. Well the next three days were spent walking Disney's many theme parks.

I don't know if it was because of my Celiac or because I'm skinny, which ever it was our waitstaff insisted on bringing me two entrees and two desserts sometimes. I felt obligated to eat at least part of them and was dreading the scale. But thankfully nothing gained, and nothing lost. So I was even....Wooo Hooo!

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This movie is based on the play by Wendy Kesselman.. Daisy is a teenage girl is played by Claire Danes. Her grandmother Nana is played by Jeanne Moreau. Daisy's grandmother shares with her stories of her life in a concentration camp. Daisy herself is experiencing some anti-Semitism in the private school she attends and imagines the two different scenarios in parallel. I thought it was well done and brought to light how young people in general take different things and apply them to the life they are living... Would I recommend it? Only to certain people, not because its not a movie worth watching but more because you have to really read between the lines....

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A modern tale of Pride and Prejudice. This was fun to read. The characters were pretty well defined, especially if you have read the original Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin. The characters have very similar personalities to the original, it is just set in New York and in the present. The story is familiar, but also different enough to leave you guessing a little. Oh how would it be to have a billionaire fall in love with you, heck even just a millionaire. Well ladies we all know that just doesn't happen every day. William Darcy is a man of good taste tho ladies, he likes to buy Elizabeth very expensive shoes, with very high heels. Why is it that men like women in high heels? Of course they make our legs look good, but what else is it. Who knows, it is one of those mysteries. Back to the book. It took me awhile to read it. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't a quick read. My definition of a quick read is something I usually can read in a day or two of casual reading. This was a take your time kind of book. This book has some sensual parts, so if you don't like to read about passion and sex, I would suggest not reading it. I also have to say it had a few too many "Ohhhhh baby's" for my taste. Really who says that stuff?

It is definitely a romantic book, so if your not in the mood for a little romance you should find a different book.

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