Christmas Day!

It's December 25th on the Amazon, 82 degrees, humid, breezy (at least on deck).  Saw some cute kids dancing around the disco-lit tree in the lounge last night.  Another of the families on board with small children was gathered in one of the lounges, around an artificial tree, opening gifts this morning as I walked to breakfast. Several passengers are wearing Santa hats (or reindeer antlers), and I am sporting the Christmas-lightbulb earrings Pat gave me years ago. (No, they don't light up.) The intraship television station that charts our progress (latitude, longitude, course, speed, with a little map -- pretty interesting) is playing secular tunes: at the moment, it's John Denver doing "Please, Daddy, Don't Get Drunk This Christmas." 

Well, nothing's perfect.  :  )