365/41 Heart.

..not much to offer today, just a warm heartfelt hello across the world to our Zac who's ship has arrived in the Hawaiin islands.  He is about ten hours behind us which is easy to visualise in the evenings knowing he is having his morning, but during our mornings it feels odd to think he's asleep.

I think the guys we work with think I'm a little crazy, keeping an eye on the itinerary and knowing where they are, what the bridge webcam shows... but I feel safe in the knowledge that he would be the same if we were away, he embraces everything technical and showed me how to find the info himself.  I tweeted him today to say how warm it looks out there, compared to here, and added the hashtag #stalkingmum !!! xx

That's our boy!

Loving that khaki thing going on..

There was much excitement here last night when Ross came in and checked his Facebook... Zac had uploaded a bunch of great pics of his first port of call.. San Pedro, Los Angeles..

.. the Q now is whether Mum (that's me) relents and gets her own Facebook address so I don't have to stalk the poor lad over the shoulders of the rest of the family?

We will see...x

365/35 Liquid.

Well to be fair I was always going to have tenuous links with some of these prompts, helping them fit the events of the day and keeping this a little blog of life with the Jones'


Seeing the word for today as 'liquid' I knew where I'd end up.. okay, so the threat of snow has given way to the more usual Cornish sunshine of 'really wet' drizzle..and every day is a mix of liquids, from showering to cups of tea and my pans of Saturday Soup.....

but the adventures of our middle-child have definitely taken a little precedence today.

Zac called us last evening, he had docked in Los Angeles mid day and had loads to tell us about the settling in / familiarisation period since he joined them with his mate up in Vancouver on Tuesday. Contractors have left after the refitting and passengers arrive this afternoon expecting a holiday of a lifetime! When we spoke we weren't sure if he would get chance to set foot on dry land that evening, Colin said that when you are on a ship like that you wouldn't be bothered, but I kind of thought that it may seem too enticing to see the docks and not get ashore.

Well unusually I didn't check my hotmail and tweets this morning til about noon, then got a real surprise e-mail from Zac ... about 6am here.. and 10pm out there.. emailing from an eatery in Hollywood no less!  They got ashore and grabbed the chance to see something, there won't be many chances to be in port with no passegers aboard...Go Zac!

(so, to the photo and the word.. plenty of liquid to see as the ship leave LA, (above) and credit for this nice image from Wikimedia..)

..PS and this is a pic Zac posted from there today..

First port!