A Queen Has Her Sea Legs - 2004-01-30
Our bus rests near the ship terminal in Southampton at 2:30 p.m. following a soggy drive from London. The bright red smokestack of the Queen Mary 2, the world's newest and biggest ocean liner, stares down at us, roughly 23 stories high.
Later, my husband, my brother, my cousin's husband and I go down to Deck 2, at sea level, to try out a blackjack table in the casino and watch the waves. By the time we head back to our cabin at 1:30 a.m. we can't walk a straight line.
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