10/19/15 - I am not sure where to start so I think I will write a little each day and date it so I know where I left off.  I got back to San Diego last night at 8:00pm.

10/3/15 - Louise took me to the trolley station in El Cajon at 6:35am for a departure at 6:48am.  I got to the Amtrak station and took a bus to Oceanside at 8:00am.  Amtrak closed the track from Oceanside to San Diego for repairs. We got to Oceanside on schedule.  The train was scheduled at 9:25am.  We soon learned that the earlier train had broken down on the track and our train was going to push the broken down train and so now we had 12 passenger cars going to Union Station in Los Angeles.  By the time they got all that done, we were an hour and half late!!  Then at every stop on the way up, we had to stop twice since the train was longer than the platform!!  We fnally got to Union Station at 1:05pm.  Now almost two hours late.  I then had to take a 45 minute bus ride to LAX airport to meet up with Aunt Esther who had been there since around 11:00am.  We finally met up at 2:10pm.  We then had a shuttle to take us to the ship and that was another 1/2 hour drive.  Well, we fnally got to the cruise terminal at 3:15pm and the ship was suppose to depart at 4:00pm.  We were the last ones on the ship!!  They were having a safety drill so we could not even go to the cabin. What a mess!!  We finally did depart the terminal at 5:00pm because they had some problems getting the international papers correct.

10/4/15 - Today is a sailing day and it was good to just relax and not do much at all.