Cruise Chronicles, Day 5

[tikay]

Thanks Mike.

Here's another Antigua view.

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[langboy]

For what its worth,

In the photo above, the light blue building just left of centre is the office which I used to work in and is currently where a fellow blonde (Cromaa) is working.....Hi Steve!

On the right is a brown and fawn coloured building which is a very plush but still unused hospital. It was built by the previous (but corrupt) government, who spent so much money building the place, they forgot to budget for all the hospital equipment and fittings that are needed to run a hospital efficiently.

Also, there is currently a major power outage in Antigua which has knocked out power to many of the offshore bookmakers based there...Including the one that I work for.

[tikay]

We had better mention Poker I guess, so here's a Pic which neatly links to poker.

On the left, 2005 World Series star Conor Tate, who has 7 kids, & seems to have most of them with him on the boat. They are very well-mannered, even saying "how do you do, pleased to meet you" & shaking hands. Lovely.

Middle is skalie, aka Jon Kulmer, who is leading the Main Event by a good way, (with blondeite Stuart Fox in 2nd, whahoo, a blondeite 1-2).

On the right, is Marc Goodwin, aka blondeite Mr Cool, who is leading the $500 event, which is down to the last 6.

I busted out of the $500 in about 35th place, it was a 260 runner field, & the $$$'s were in sight. A sort of misunderstanding arose, and all the chips went in when I held K-Q on a K-J-T flop, which I thought was pretty decent for me. But the geezer with J-T was thinking along the same lines, & there being no improvement on turn & river, that was that. Excuses, excuses.....

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[tikay]

Lifeboat Drill, on Day one. Gotta wonder what the couple are saying to each other.

I reckon the girlie is saying, "John, I've always loved you, we shall meet again in heaven, & I shall transprt you there in my heart, which is yours forever".

And he's saying "how we fixed for one last bit of humpy pumpy?".......

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[booder]

nice pics tony..............any totty on board ?

[Chili]

Glad to see you are back in action tk - now get some work done!!

[charmaine]

Looks beautiful TK , almost wish i was there 

[tikay]

Boo! Trust you to lower the tone. Totty? Can't say I've noticed. Sat next to a stunningly beautiful French lady last night in the $1-$2 game. Hair pulled back - love that - sort of, I dunno, long hot pants, they came down to just below her kneees, & a loose, off the shoulder top, with, so far as one could tell, no, err, "means of support". Not that I noticed. The old pulse was racing, I can tell you.

Heres another Antigua view, I love Mike's feedback.

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[tikay]

Chili! You wanna see me in action? Careful what you wish for....... Hope the "business business" is going to plan. Jen & snoops have sloped off to Copenhagen, least that was how I left it, the lucky blighters, while I'm here in Antigua, & you are in Grantham. Life's unfair sometimes, eh?

Just a quick aside to anyone who  is awaiting a reply from me. There are, inevitably, a heap of unanswered PM's in my inbox. Bear with me, I'll respond as soon as I can, I just wanna get these pics up first.

Here's "The Main Man" - Mr Jesse May. Am thinking of getting a bandana like Jesse's. What you reckon?

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[tikay]

Would you believe it?

Was strolling along the deck, & this coouple approached me - "are you tikay?".

Hehe, gotta love THAT. We get chatting, turns out they live in Denmark, but they are both avid blonde readers, & they think the Live Updates are THE best. They said they are "very funny", I said they are not supposed to be bloody funny......And they said "and Denmark is NOT in Norway". What? Whatever makes them think that?

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[Sunday8pm]

tikay i dont think a bandana would be any good, looks like you got a skinhead!

[tikay]

I mentioned the other day that I thought World Heads-Up champ Peter Gunnarsen had put a bit of weight on - facially mainly, & he looks well on it. Maybe that's what love does to a fella. Here he is with his beloved.

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[tikay]

Maybe Big Trev Reardon is in love, too.....

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[tikay]

And maybe even Jeff Burke is in love. He's a funny man. VERY deep voice - Welsh - and watches Poker 425 every week. So he's the other viewer.

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[langboy]

Aha!!!

The picture about 4 posts ago (with the blue barge in the foreground) looks like an area to the north of St Johns which is a bit shanty-ish, to put it politely.

It is an area of dubious doings and the occasional trading of wacky-backy and stronger substances takes place at this end of town.

I have been told there is a Night Club in the neighbourhood where, if the plays a tune (reggae music kinda thing) that the yardies really like, they fire off rounds of ammunition into the ceiling which is corrugated iron!!!!  

This is a story which reached me third hand during my 1½ years in Antigua, but I can honestly say I have no first hand experience of that particular establishment.