December was a quiet and fairly warm month. Dave and I continued working at Honey Baked Ham up until Christmas eve. We worked long hours every day and saw overtime hours on our paycheck. Dave got several customer reviews for doing a great job, (if you ever purchase a ham from Honey Baked, there is a survey at the bottom of your receipt, just go online and fill out the short survey giving your opinion of the person who helped you). The store we worked at would post the certificates on the wall behind the counter. I would point out to Dave all the "Atta' boys" that he got. He would just smile, and say, 'Really?". I have several customers who asked for me, and when the manager and assistant manager would call me upfront, the customer would thank me for doing a great job of helping them place the order, or give them clear directions to find the store. A couple days before Christmas, a gentleman came into the store and asked for me. When I went up front to the register, he said, "Hi, I'm ***, and you helped me on the phone. I want you and the managers to know that you are just too nice to be working here at Christmas time". I just laughed and thanked him. He then said, "I also own a bakery, and I wanted to give you this loaf of Chocolate Raspberry Rum bread, freshly baked this morning. If you want you can share it with the store or take it home. Also here are 2 of our store's oatmeal white chocolate chip cookies. Enjoy." I thanked him and told him I would give the cookies to my husband and pointed out Dave to him. He told Dave that I was a real keeper, and Dave gave him a thumbs up. Kyra, (our assistant manager), whispered in my ear, "No customer has ever done this before". Since that day we already had so many homemade cookies, candies, and treats, I decided to wait a couple of days to share the bread with the crew. After setting a couple days, the bread was delicious, I wish I could find his bakery to buy more.
Our grandchild, (who was living with us), had an auto accident on the night of the 19th and now was no longer with a car. So then the grandchild decided to move back in with their mom for a while. It was been nice and quiet around the house. Dave and I spent days working at Honey Baked, coming home eating a quick dinner, going to bed, getting up, and going back to work again.
We took our Covid test, (with negative results) on the 28th, and we dropped Opal, (our cat), at the kennel on the 28th. Packed and left for Miami on the evening of the 29th. We spent the night at a motel in Miami, boarded the cruise ship at 11:30 AM on the 30th of December, and set sail at 4:00 PM, for 10 days. The ship normally cruises with 5,000, but for safety, they only allowed 1,500 passengers, and we had to be fully vaccinated, and have a negative Covid test 2 days before sailing.
New Year's Eve was a formal night. The whole ship was decorated, and dinner was extravagant. The partying went on until the wee hours of the morning, but Dave and I didn't last that long, just around midnight we crashed into bed. We knew that we had plenty ahead of us. We were on our way to Panama, Costa Rico, Columbia, and Aruba.What a way to end the year, and after more than 2 years without any cruising this was a great way to start cruising again.
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