Oh Pat, I am so very sorry. Your daughter sounds very loved and treasured, but losing a child is such pain.. I loved reading Shakespeare and spent half the time looking up words, so the Folger sounds great. Actually seeing many of the plays made me understand so much more.. and acting in them at college, etc helped even more.. Came later to the Sonnets and still struggle with them, but love them.
So.. now I know.. no ocean going monsters for me.. Huge crowds,, all talking at once.. moving at once.. eating at once.. waiting for elevators.. with the smallest possible room which was mid level on price.. No.. loved my river boats so very much, but they are intimate and the big ones are not.. This one was Italian, so noone spoke really good English and that does skew what is happening. They also do some most peculiar things as routine.. The ship has no walking down rails or ramps in the theatre and a whole (over 4000) lot of people , most of which were older, who either fell or would not even try to walk down the wide walkway with no way to hold on. The crew throught we were weird and we though they were impossible. No decisions on the crew part, so it was frustrating if something was wrong, they had to get in touch with the invisible office.. All in all. a long long week.. never again.
