Updated Thursday, April 06, 2006
April 6, 2006
Yesterday, at two minutes and three seconds past 1:00 in the morning, the time and date was exactly
01:02:03 04/05/06.
We went on a cruise! Beginning March 25 we went to Key West, then Guatemala, Belize, and Costa Maya, Mexico.
First thing: obligatory lifeboat drill:
Key West – Atlantic side:
Blue Morpho on Pam’s hand in Key West butterfly garden:
http://www.keywestbutterfly.com/
Life onboard is rough:
In Guatemala, a real Blue Morpho on the wing!! http://www.butterflies.org/lvstk.cfm?lvstkID=7
at Hacienda Tijax ( http://www.tijax.com/ )
Us fording the Siban River in Belize:
http://www.southernhorizons.com/belize/BELIZE/BELIZE3granddiscoverypackage%20.HTM
Lastly, Costa Maya:
and the Mayan temples (our guide is on the right):
Cute Urban Legend:
A Charlotte , NC lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars,
then insured them against fire, among other things. Within a month, having
smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars and without yet having
made even his first premium payment on the policy, the lawyer filed claim
against the insurance company.
In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost in quote; a series of
small fires, quote; The insurance company refused to pay, citing the
obvious reason that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion.
The lawyer sued and WON! (Stay with me.)
In delivering the ruling, the judge agreed with the insurance company that
the claim was frivolous. The judge stated nevertheless, that the lawyer
held a policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars
were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire,
without defining what is considered to be unacceptable and was obligated
to pay the claim. Rather than endure lengthy and costly appeal process,
the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer
for his loss of the rare cigars lost in the quote; fires
NOW FOR THE BEST PART…
After the lawyer cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested
on 24 counts of ARSON!!! With his own insurance claim and testimony from
the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of
intentionally burning his insured property and was sentenced to
24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.
It is part of an ongoing series of improbable tales, but fun.
Weekend trip weather:
Amy and Darren’s weather:
Dad and Betty’s weather:
Susan and Al’s weather:
David’ and jeans weather:
Donald and jeanne’s weather:
Daniel and candy’s weather:
Heather and michael’s weather:
Rod and jill’s weather:
See you in Florida : 2006!
| 2006 | Darrell & Marilyn | 1998 | John’s Boat |
| 2007 | Dan & Candy | 2002 | |
| 2008 | Sue and Al | 2005 | David and Jean’s Housewarming party, Pocomoonshine Lake, Princeton, Maine |
| 2009 | John | ||
| 2010 | Donald | ||