Bora Bora

This is Sunday February 16, we are in Bora Bora overnight. It is really hot here and as a result I have no energy tonight. I am just too tired to begin the report of today and yesterday. I will try to catch up tomorrow.


BUT
there was a request to see the Love Story  entry that we submitted to EFFY so I will cut and paste it for those who are interested.

Did their Guardian Angel take a 40 year nap?

She was 17 and he was 19---it was February of 1962. They were students at college.

They went ice skating that afternoon. She fell and he stopped to help her to her feet. That was their first meeting. The college Valentines dance was coming up soon so he invited her to the dance. This would be their first date.

They would date for about three years. Time and distance in this pre face time and pre internet era would take its toll.

They both went on to lead full lives, to marry and to have families. There was no contact and no knowledge of the where abouts of the other.

In January of 2003 he was trying to locate an old friend whose Xmas card had been returned. He went to Classmates.com and the friend was not listed but she was. He had thought of her often so he decided to drop her a note.

In 2003 she was living in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and he was living in British Columbia. They were a continent apart.

Her husband was in a nursing home in the final stages of Alzheimer disease. His wife was in the final stages of a 12 year battle with Leukemia.

During the next few months they kept their computers busy filling in the detail of their lives during the preceding almost 40 years.

They finally met face to face at the 40^th reunion of their graduation from the NOVA SCOTIA TEACHERS COLLEGE. It was as if no time had passed.

During the following year they helped each other through rough times and the death of their spouses.

In October of 2004 they decided that life was too short and they has wasted enough time so she moved from Cape Breton to join him in British Columbia

He found her on January 7^th 2003

He proposed on January 7^th 2005

They were married on January 7^th 2006

Life had come full circle in 40 years.

She sold her Cape Breton home and soon after they discovered Princess cruises. Their first cruise was in January 2009. They loved it…. The funds from the house sale and other investments have been slowly given to Princess.

On February 3^rd they celebrated their 500^th day at sea on a Princess ship. This is cruise number 52

They are busy making memories and trying to make up for those lost 40 years.

At first they hoped to get 10 years together now they want 20 years.

Their motto is that every day is a gift that should be made the most of.