What Happens on a Cruise STAYS there

Mostly what happens on a cruise stays on a cruise but in this case things will have to be shared. Our very first night of the cruise we decided to go to the introductory show at the big theater. Gary and Nancy along with Mark and Cathy were a bit late and found seats all the way down at the front of the theater. The cruise director was asking for the oldest married couple and believe it or not Gary and Nancy have been married 52 years.

My goodness they must have gotten married when they were 10 years old. Shocking but they were the oldest married couple on board. The director called Gary up on the stage and started asking him questions. Gary was such a hit he had everyone in the crowd belly laughing. It didn't take long for the cruise director to realize he would be foolish to let Gary off the stage and kept him up there for about 20 minutes of the show. The next day we were telling some of our group who didn't make it to the show about Gary when Beth started asking random other guests if they had seen the show and if so what did they think of Gary, the oldest married man. Everyone affirmed, this man stole the show. As Gary and Nancy were walking out we kept hearing people exclaim as they saw them, "there's the star!"
Another funny man on the cruise was George. Now George didn't really want to go on this 'stupid cruise' but on Sunday George stands up and tells the group, "I don't want to hear any more about this 'stupid cruise' it's a WONDERFUL cruise!

 At dinner our tables were getting a little rowdy and we noticed George was not swinging his napkin around. When asked why, he states, "Hey, I'm a Christian, we don't DO that." When we all broke out laughing George picked up his napkin and started swinging.

In the picture below we are sure Wayne is asking mom if she was going to be taken away for breaking the law. Obviously Spark is defending her unless maybe he is telling on her. Mom was always breaking the rules, like stealing fruit off the ship and even imbibing in alcohol.  

She lost her head covering at Progresso and the last night ended up with a shot glass and a shot of apple whisky. We were trying to figure out how she could wear that as a hat instead. Now for the record she didn't order the drink and wouldn't taste it until her niece Evelyn and son-in-law Tim told her it was just apple cider. When she took a sip she was shocked to find out it really was alcohol. What was funny about that is Evelyn and Tim really did just think it was cider that had turned hard. We are such a bunch of country bumpkins!

Joan is usually the master of practical jokes but Beth played the best one on the trip. She swiped Marilyn's ship card out of her purse, gave it to Rhoda and told her to go into their room, open the safe and and hide everything in it (passports, money, and all their gaudy jewels). Of course Beth starts playing games with Patsy to make sure she has an alibi for the theft. 

 When Marilyn walked into her cabin she is shocked. She tells Beth, "this is really serious, we don't even have passports, why we won't even be able to get off the ship!" Beth was trying to keep a straight face and told her, "there is no way they will keep us on the ship, they would have to keep feeding us." Poor Marilyn was stuck  begging scraps from what mom was able to smuggle off the ship in the picture below.

Diane was in charge of John Honegger's clothes, we weren't sure why he would want her in charge of that since she lost all of his clothes on the trip up to Morris, MN. Below he is begging her to give him something other than sweats to wear for the day. 

Lee and Rhoda went shopping while visiting some of the towns in Mexico. At one point Rhoda must have wandered off and it didn't take long for Lee to panic. He started running from store to store frantically asking everyone, "has anyone seen Rhoda?" Below he is hanging on tight to her.

Disclaimer: Mom says she didn't steal fruit off the ship she made herself a bacon sandwich and that is what the dog found. Of course that must not have been allowed either for her to get into so much trouble. The other correction she wants me to make is to let everyone know she didn't sip the alcohol, she just tasted it with her tongue. Do we believe her?  On a good note she found her head covering, she is thankful it wasn't left at the sink hole in Progresso.