Month: February 2013

Day 28, DATELINE, LANGKAWI, MALAYSIA – A beautiful archipelago of mostly uninhabited islands. Kind of like that Leonardo di Caprio film. The ship is equally uninhabited. Everyone’s gone ashore.

Note from Stew:

It could be worse. In fact, it is. Kiki you are missing Nemo the Blizzard of ’13. Thirty inches at the Portland Jetport. This snap, to the left, is from our window, in dark gray, Gray, Maine. We haven’t been out the door for 30 hours. And counting.

This video link is from camera in your office, Kiki. So you can see the Maine Weather you are missing in real time!

Day 25 DATELINE SRI LANKA – More dancing men greet the QM2 on its maiden call in Colombo. The elephant orphanage was sweet. We saw them bathe, be bottled and babied. Once they’re rescued, they remain at the orphanage with an occasional gig at a temple or festival.

You know how the sign says to refrain from getting close to the elephants? Not true. Their curious trunks and huge bottoms were right in your face. Here they’re on their way back from the river for a nice lunch. They eat 250 kilos of veggies a day.
Sent from my iPhone

Fun trying Skype last night. Will try again tonight. I am so baffled by these recent, almost nightly, time changes. We’re 11.5 hours ahead of you today – 12 tomorrow. I’ll try you at 10:30 am EST and will be on the deck where reception is better – unless it’s raining again. Apparently we’re hitting the leading edge of rainy season. Who knew? I’ll scan the laptop around so you can get a 360 view.

We’ll be in Singapore for Chinese New Year!

Got the new STV web site rough – nice!

Hi Stew and All,

DATELINE. SOMEWHERE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN BETWEEN SRI LANKA AND THAILAND– Stew, and all, Yes, flattery will get you everywhere. Please send and let me see if I can do it. Today and tomorrow are sea days en route to Thailand so I have plenty of time to relax on the promenade deck and work. Wink.

Virginia, I had planned to spend a lot of time in the spa, but after a $175 mani/pedi decided I’d rather do STV stuff instead!

Yesterday we went to the elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka. Pix to folo.

Kiki

Stew note: we are building a new STVreeland company website and in our minds, we just can’t do it justice without Kiki’s words of wisdom. So, we raved on her photos and then segued seamlessly selfishly to “oh, oh, btw, could you help us? pleeease?”