Our Sail & Sing Christian Cruise – Day 2

October 7, 2015
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Tuesday, September 28 – Boston, Massachusetts

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1 (5)Inside the glass elevator.

1 (6)An elevator area

1 (7)A pretty stairway

1 (8)Our hallway on Deck 7

1 (9)Breakfast

1 (10)Cerwin’s platter

1 (13)9 AM to 12:00 PM – Morning Concert in El Morocco – The Stutzmans

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1 (16)Margaret and Amos Raber

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1 (22)Sharon Bethel Quartet

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1 (24)Eduard and Christine Klassen

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1 (26)He is a fabulous harpist and story teller. I especially liked hearing about his days as a boy in a Paraguayan jungle.

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1 (29)Ryan and Friends kept us laughing.

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1 (34)Nelson Coblentz

1 (36)The Wissmanns

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1 (38)John Schmid

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1 (40)Our guide into Boston Harbor

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1 (42)Going by a pool to an upper deck

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1 (49)Watching the ship come into Boston Harbor from the deck above me – Deck 14

1 (47)This was a busy area – with ships in the water and airplanes landing and taking off from Logan Airport.

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1 (53)I was surprised to see a Four Seasons (Denver, PA) truck on the dock. The green and white one.

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1 (57)Just can’t resist taking pictures of trucks. 🙂

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1 (59)The surprise of this trip was discovering that Cameron and his mom, Bev, were one this cruise. They live less than a mile from us and go to our church. We traveled on separate busses to New York and discovered each other at our breakfast stop on Sunday.

1aPreparing to tour Boston on amphibious ducks.

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3 (1)Our knowledgeable and interesting guide.

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3 (3)Our group was on four vehicles, so we occasionally met other ducks.

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3 (14)Going back on dry land.

3 (15)Anyone recognize this? It’s the home of the Boston Celtics.

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3 (18)Located on Boston Commons, Augustus Saint Gaudens’ bronze relief sculpture, in a setting designed by architect Charles McKim, is eleven feet high by fourteen feet wide.

3 (19)A statue of Mary Dyer – She was born Marie Barrett, and an English and colonial American Puritan turned Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony. She is one of the four executed Quakers known as the Boston martyrs.

3 (20)Two hours later we were back at the ship.

4 (1)6:00 PM – time for our evening meal.

4 (2)We came in from the upper deck of the restaurant to get these pictures.

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4 (4)Dessert

4 (5)A waiter posing with Gary and Marilyn Stull.

4 (7)Our friendly and helpful waiters

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5I was tired and headed back to our stateroom. Cerwin went to the Cool Lounge to hear John Schmid’s presentation: “A Song and a Story.”

6On this night there was a “stingray” on our bed.

Oh, what a delightful, interesting, relaxing day.

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