finished with the world famous Beatles Story experience. This was a walk through exhibition of memorabilia from early days in Hamburg, Mathew Street and the Cavern Club, through "Beatlemania," flowerpower and the Yellow Submarine concluding with the eventual break up of the Beatles.

We stayed in Liverpool the entire time while on shore today. No country drives. Liverpool is another city filled with wonderful architecture strongly punctuated in elegant sculpture, brick, ironwork, and statues along with forever and everywhere expansive parks. On Mathews Street, which runs seven miles along the Dee River inlet where our ship dropped anchor, was a music festival, Europe's biggest free annual celebration, going strong with live bands and carnival rides. The festival added a somewhat bizarre contrast to the beautiful sculptured buildings towering above and behind us as we walked along Mathews Street.

A unique feature on top of one building was the Liverbird. We had hoped to find a replica of one to buy in the shops where we wandered while waiting for a return ferry to the ship. One would look great by our pool! Finding none made us decide we will just have to come back someday and look a little harder!

Back on the Prinsendam for a late lunch followed by a game of trivia (once again losing by one point) found me totally ready for a nap. Late nights and early mornings finally caught up with me. I slept an hour and a half feeling quite refreshed by the time we arrived in the dining room for another elegant dinner which included a beautiful scenic backdrop of the city of Liverpool as we ate.

Directly after dinner we all decided to take in "What's My Line." As we walked in to sit down, the cruise director, Peter, was asking for participants, anyone who had an unusual occupation to stump the panel. Dorothy signed up! When the audience saw she was a Cat Show Judge they were impressed. The panel would have never figured it out if Peter hadn't broken down giving them a blatant clue. Out of four people who played the game Dorothy's occupation was the best.

We are enjoying the cruise and can hardly believe we still have eight days left! Tomorrow we will be back in Ireland; our next port being Dublin. For the first time we will be docked. We are all pleased there will be no tendering tomorrow morning! It is really getting old.