Another story for you

What we forgot to say:

Two of our table of eight have come down with the virus; the husband of one and the wife of another. This requires 48 hour quarantine after the virus is diagnosed. One of them will be off quarantine tomorrow (Sunday).

Our table was set up for eight and it will be the same eight until we reach San Francisco. It is comprised of a scientist and his wife, two lawyers who are married to each other (from New York) and another lawyer (Mark) from Bethesda and his wife. Mark's brother joined the cruise in Ft. Lauderdale and since our table is only for eight, Mark and his wife had to be moved to another table so he could be with his brother. His specialty was international law and he regaled us with great stories so we will miss him. His replacement came to the table last night. Of this couple, the man, Harry looks very old and by his side was this very attractive, very attentive young wife who was dressed in the latest fashions and wearing lots of jewelry; diamonds on the neck, the arms and the fingers. So, Morag thinks, "What a trophy wife he has." He has Parkinson's so the wife, Georgie, does the talking for him. She is very tall and slim and just looks like a model. The women at the table thought she looked in her forties: the men thought fifties, so we were all quite wary of this young, beautiful woman. They live in Canada, have a horse farm in Canada but he's a gentleman farmer; a condo in Florida, a place in Israel and travel for three months of the year. Anyway, to make this long story short and not so boring, during the course of the conversation over dinner with this couple, it turned out they have been married for 50 years; she is the mother of six children; and will be 70 in a few months. That surely stopped some of the racing thoughts of the women in the group. Maybe in our next blog we can send a photo. They weren't there this evening, so the rest of the table freely gave their thoughts and we all had had the same opinion. My were we shocked.