SOMEBODY PINCH ME - I MUST BE DREAMING!!

Brian and I cannot believe we are finally in Los Angeles to begin our trip.  After a great couple of weeks of enjoying the holidays and send-off celebrations, we left our home in Safety Harbor on Friday

to fly to LA.  When we got off the plane at LAX we were met by our limo drive that delivered us to the historic Beverly Wilshire Hotel.  We were greeted at the hotel by Seabourn staff that coordinated our check in.  We are in a beautiful room on the top floor of the hotel.  Our balcony overlooks Rodeo Drive. 

Seabourn treated us to a cocktail reception and dinner with entertainment.  At the party, we met many of the world cruise passengers and several crew members including the chef that will feed us for 4 months.  We also met the cruise director and some of her staff, the ship's purser and other crew members.  So far, the crew members we have met are from America, England, Scotland, New Zealand, South Africa and Croatia.  They all treated us like royalty.

About 80 passengers are doing the entire world cruise.  The ship holds 450 passengers and we are told that it is almost full.

The Seabourn staff came to the hotel this morning to check us in for the cruise.  Our private limo driver will pick us up at 12:15 and take us to the ship.  We will step out of the limo and go on board immediately.  The world cruise passengers board early.

We woke up this morning at 5:00 a.m., in part, because of the time difference, but mostly because we are too excited to sleep.  We are anxious now to get aboard the Sojourn!