San Antonio, TX

Sept. 2, 1998

Dear Mel:
        I want to thank you for a wonderful cruise. I enjoyed every minute of it. I wish I had gone before, when I was in better health - but we can't have everything.
        The best part of the whole trip was meeting you - you are a wonderful person & a joy to be around.

... and the results were outstanding!

I hope our paths will cross again sometime.
        If you ever need folk dance teachers I know a fabulous couple, Odie & Manuel Gomez.

Best of everything for you,        

        Jeff

Bert & Marianne ...
Los Gatos

Dear Paula and Mel,

Thanks so much for the pictures - we will add them to our scrapbook and enjoy them every time we look back at our Folk Dance cruise.

Paula, did you ever finish the chart of the group picture, with all the names on the heads? If you ever do, we would really like to have a copy. We have the list of those who sailed, but putting the names and faces together is getting harder every day.

Mel, it was a great trip in every way - you are a superlative arranger. BUT, please don't plan another 'wonderful' folk dance cruise to a place that we just have to go' for at least 3 or 4 years. We positively can't manage one every single year.

Many thanks,

Marianne & Bert

                September 19, 1989

Dear Paula and Mel,
        Many thanks for the snapshots! We here in this area have had an orgy exchanging pictures -- we all feel "the more the better". In fact, Betty & Bob __ (from your cruise last year) were over & showed us 2 videos from their trip and we viewed each other's snapshots -- getting very excited when we recognized the places we had visited in each other's pictures.
        Our memories are very vivid and happy and we spent a delightful evening re-living it. Jean __ was over too. I have to tell you that both she and her sister in-law, Paula, have signed up for beginning folk-dancing lessons -- so I think we have 2 prospective addicts like us.
I'm enclosing a copy of the picture I couldn't resist taking at the airport. I'm glad that Mel is better. I think he should give up "Maria's Wedding".
I don't think I know anything about the festival here in November -- we'll probably hear about it at our class -- and if I can --I will certainly hope to attend. I'd love to see you both.
        Right now they are talking about Hurricane Hugo -- and the possibility of hitting the Bahamas. Ironic that these things happen in the areas we like to cruise to! Hope they'll come through it OK!
        Have a happy new year -- and good health in the coming year!

                Sincerely,
                    Esther

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