GWTWLady

Not 10 minutes after shoving off from the dock in Seattle on a Princess cruise to Alaska a few years ago I heard a loud commotion. As I drew nearer I saw a woman screeming at the top of her lungs at a member of the crew (a security officer with a radio). She was going on and on complaining about how she was allergic to something on the ship (or the ship itself) demanding that she be put ashore immediately. The officer while radioing for reinforcements was handling her tantrum in an admirable way in a great British accent with an extra measure of patience.. She contiuned to go ballistic insisting in high decible expletives that she must leave the ship and now ordering the officer to take her to the captain. A moment later, as two more members of the crew appeared, she was escorted to an elevator no doubt to be deposited in the brig or rubber room.

Later that evening a boat met the Diamond Princess off Port Angeles and she was taken ashore.

If someone were that sensitive and hyper-allergic, don't you think they would know it before planning a trip? sounds like her allergy may have been a traveling companion -- hope she had trip insurance...

I collect Christmas ornaments from each ship I have traveled on and every location I have visited. Over the years, I have collected so many that a few years ago we added a second 7' Christmas tree -- named the "Travel Tree". All of the collected ornament go on it, along with some ornaments of trains, planes and automobiles -- and a few little suitcase and vintage camera ornaments.

I look forward to decorating our tree every year and recalling the places we have been!