OK, items to blog:
Cruise
Remodel

We went on a cruise to the exotic land of Catalina, San Diego, and Ensanada, Mexico. We spent Christmas Day at sea. The weather was perfect and we had a great time.

We have not much remodeling left. Just the cabinets, the flooring, the electrical and plumbing, and the countertops. Not bad.

The end.

Just kidding. Not much in the blogging mood right now. I will do a brain-dump later. However...

On the cruise we met a rather interesting gentleman named Yefim. We became friends on our short trip and I got him to tell us a little about himself. He is 77 and a Russian Jew. His English was rough so I couldn’t get as much out of him as I would have liked. I first learned that he was a ship-building engineer and later learned that he was in the military during the Cold War. Yefim said that in 1965 he was in a Russian submarine looking through the periscope at San Francisco. And ‘America’ didn’t see him. He now lives in San Francisco.
His family has an interesting tale to tell as well. His father is one of 11 children – nine of whom were killed by Nazis. His father and his uncle were the only survivors of their family.

Yefim was there with his grandson Martin. Martin slipped between English and Russian freely. They were a delight. I will post some video soon showing them and us and such as that.

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