April 2 was a day at sea navigating between Funchal, Madeira and Cadiz, Spain. The distance is 574 nautical miles so we departed Funchal at 6:00PM on April Fools Day and arrived in Cadiz to a full harbor at 8:00AM on April 3.
April 2 is also auspicious because it is our anniversary...this is our 44th year of great moments...including our celebration aboard with our great traveling partners Polly and Carly Defaria. Perhaps the celebration is the reason I posted the Cadiz visit ahead of the Anniversary dinner. We dined at Signatures, a boutique restaurant on the Mariner which features a Cordon Bleu chef. Prior to that we prepared for dinner at the Observation Lounge up top:
Our "one shining moment" came during the dinner in the small Signature's dining room when Carl and Polly both stood up at the table removed a script from a pocket and proceeded to toast us with the
ditty posted below. Our neighboring table thoroughly enjoyed the tribute as did we!
Forty years of wedded bliss, how quickly flies the time,
such an auspicious occasion deserves an auspicious rhyme.
It was pottery buying when we first met, to Casas Grande we bussed,
Carl jumped on the spot, he grabbed the prized pot,
and Lee only made a small fuss.
To Tuscany thence the four of us flew, with Beth and Peter, et. al.
Pecorino was pleasing, wine flowed without ceasing,
we, all of us, had a ball!
Then to New Zealand! What a great trip. We glaciered, cratered and beached.
We celebrated Christmas and New Years Eve with reindeer eared sheep!
And now we're "at sea", the itinerary says sailing across the Atlantic,
Our dinner's divine and so is the wine and the sea breezes...oh so romantic!
So here is our wish (we promised a rhyme that would be truly auspicious),
we wish you both the happiest of days and a life that is incredibly delicious!
Now how can one do any better than that to celebrate an Anniversary?
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