New Friends

We made some new friends while on board the wonder.  The people we sat with at dinner were delightful to laugh and visit with.  One couple was from Florida.  They had 2 grown children and were the only people at the table who drank at dinner.  They seemed quite well off and very refined and had been on a lot of cruises.  They were always dressed beautifully and were kind and gracious.  The other couple at the table were first time cruisers like us and were from California.  It wasn’t till the last night of the cruise that they ever mentioned having any children.  They have two adult kids, a boy and a girl, like the first couple.  The husband was quite talkative and the wife was more shy and often sea sick.  The last night she opened up and talked quite a bit about her kids.  The last two at our table were a lady and her seven year old daughter.  She was also very friendly and I found her particularly fun to talk to.  She was a bit of a mystery, however, because the only time she ever mention a husband, she referred to him not as her husband, but as the father of her daughter.  Then later she mentioned that she stays at home and hasn’t had to work for five years now.  Something she made me think that they didn’t live with her parents.  It all adds up to a mystery that will now never be solved since we will probably never see any of them again.  

One last friend that we made on board the wonder was our game playing buddy.  We teamed up with him first while playing Name That TV Theme Song.  He knew every song and we won the game and prizes which were ship journals.  The next time we teamed up with our buddy was at Name that Movie Quote where he once again knew almost all of them.  It was during this game that we found out he is a fireman and watches TV and movies at the fire house a lot.  Brian and I did know a few quotes that he did not—about 2 each, but our few contributions help push him over the top to victory.  This time we scored a baseball cap and a water bottle.  Fun stuff, Nice people.