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The Honeymoon

We started off the honeymoon at the Stein Eriksen Lodge in Park City.  We had amazing homemade granola in our rooms and we tried some wild boar during dinner.

Beware the four S's!  For some reason I always get selected for the full screening when I travel.  I was "randomly selected" twice in one week.  Do I look like a terrorist?  A criminal?  Perhaps it's the red beard.

We crossed the ocean, landed in Tokyo, and experienced the fanciest bathrooms I've ever seen.

We visited the Toyko temple before getting on the cruise ship.

Tokyo cruise terminal

How appropriate

First stop - Port of Osaka

Taking advantage of the internet hotspot at 7-Eleven.  Don't ask me about my face in this picture.  I'm not sure what was going on there.

Where's Sam?

We had some great ping pong tournaments on the "at sea" days. Thank you, Sam, for all the great ping pong photos.

Sam and I had some intense Rummikub battles.

Formal night

Heading toward an active volcano in Kagoshima, Japan.

Eating mochi (thickest/gooiest balls of rice I've ever ingested).

Bernardo (from Mexico).....one of my fiercest competitors.

Some of our favorite people on the ship. Left to right: Me, Roger, Wendy, Jimmy, I can't remember (from Canada), Collin (from Texas), and Tai Chih. Roger, Jimmy, and their parents (Wendy and Tai Chih) are from Taiwan. Amazing people!

Our two friends who kept us well-fed during the dinners on the ship: Kadek (from Indonesia) and Rodolpho (from the Philippines).

Coming into port at Keelung, Taiwan.

National Palace Museum - Taipei, Taiwan

With Mary and Julie (from Liverpool, England).

Changing of the guard at the Soldiers' Memorial in Taipei, Taiwan.

Chang Kai Shek Concert Hall

We walked all over the place to find the Taipei Temple, which is located next to the beautiful CPC gas station (hardy har).

Fruit/Veggie carving on the ship.

Judy and Graham (from New Zealand). We had so much fun meeting people from all over the world.

That's my "intellectual" face

Ana (our kind, fun Filipino friend who kept our room in ship - is that a pun? - shape) found out that Sam preferred the dark chocolates over the others, and this is what we found on the bed the last day.

Our ship at the port in Hong Kong

Victoria Peak - Hong Kong

Our ship at the port in Hong Kong

Bruce Lee Statue - Avenue of the Stars - Hong Kong

I asked a random tourist to pose in a photo with me next to the Bruce Lee Statue.

Mochi

We tried some kind of a potato/pork/onion pancake called okonomiyaki.