You are most welcome dear friends, we have not forgotten your warm and friendly welcome last year. Given our inability to travel overseas this year, we were happy to join in spirit through a little gift from France also as a gesture of friendship
. The wine comes from a winery close to the town where I was born.
Thank you for the lovely picture and your messages much appreciated. You look very happy, we trust that Irv and Watfa "
ont mis les petits plats dans les grands" (French saying for "made a marvellous spread, offered a hearty meal") to please everyone aboard Gotcha.
Sadly Don was not able to join. He thought that his sciatica was getting better and had improved enough that he could make the trip back to Ft. Pierce, he tried to take a trip down but the result did not work out well at all.
So, let us think of him with a picture taken in Normandy 2 years ago when Olivier drove Don and Lou to the D-Day beaches, with a stop in a small village named after Don's family name, the place from where his family originally comes.
See you next year. Until that, take care and stay healthy !
All the best to all,
Pilou and Olivier
P.S. Al, you are lucky ! Oh yes the Mothball Fleet in the Suisun Bay, we have been there to see the old navy ships.