April 30th, 2012 is a date we will easily remember...it's the last day of Rick's employment and the first day of our full time cruiser life on Orion! We have been looking forward to this day for a long time...and now that it has come and gone we are still pinching ourselves :) I just realized that it was exactly one month ago!
We had a small gathering of friends at our new favorite hang-out in Salinas called "Sal Pa' Dentro"...thank you all for coming and making this an evening to remember! Many thanks to Jonzo and Anna for accommodating us on short notice and many thanks to Linda, the cook, for preparing the appetizers and to all of them for being our friends and cheering with us the whole evening!Another big thank you goes to Vicente and David...Rick's former co-workers...without whom the celebration would not have been the same!
Oh and last but not least many thanks to everybody for their wonderful presents...something we did not ask for but got anyways, hahahaha. A special mention of Mercedes and Richard, who had the "retirement" T-shirts made for us that we were wearing most of the evening...what a riot :)
And of course Lou and Deb who made the evening extra special...Lou's blessing of our new rings was the highlight of the evening! The pictures that follow are self explanatory...suffice it to say that we had fun...all of us...and now a new chapter has begun for Rick and me in our wonderful life together on Orion :) Stay tuned...
