For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 27, 2024

Get a room!

GOOD CHOICE!!!!!

Awwww…..(YUCK!)

The main reason married couples go on vacation. Without kids.

Ahh, memories. Ships are great fun. I’ve been on 13 cruises. One was the Mexican Riviera, the others were in the Caribbean.

I like John’s priorities…

Good for them! The trip is wonderful. The memories: priceless.

Is it me or does that look like a Royal Carribean ship?

“Well, Elly, you can go do whatever you want, I’m going up to the over-18 sun-deck! (heh heh heh)”

Ok, you two, the last time you starting doing ‘that stuff’ April ‘showed up’ and Elle wasn’t particularly pleased with being in that condition ‘at her age’ so ‘cool your jets’ ! ! !

Makes me miss my husband…19 years ago is too long.

It’s important to have priorities.

Good move!

A PDA!

It’s nice to see them happy on the cruise and with Gordon and Tracey getting engaged to get married, this comic is living up to the better part of the better or worse title!

I sure hope that Lynn Johnston doesn’t plan to turn the tables and bring on worse things to happen after Easter for the next month of April.

she just satarted a new job, how did she get the time off ?

I wanna go on a cruise!

It’s not the size of the boat, but the motion of the ocean that counts.

Perfect, John!

They didn’t share, but I have no doubt that my parents did a lot of “that” when they went on their cruise. I do know that they did participate in a lot of the activities. One time there was a costume party, but you had to make your costume, and you could use things on the ship. My mother had a white dress. She took a bunch of paper doilies from the tables to make a veil, took some dead flowers from cleared tables, painted her face green with eyeshadow & went as a seasick bride. My dad took a bunch of sheets, napkins, etc., and went as Sheik Dam Rotten of the Rotterdam (their ship). Dad won!

And yet, still no BOOIIiiiINNGG!!! from John.

Cut to the stateroom, show the door closing as they entered to, you know, ….

I’ve been on one cruise in my life. It was a 3 masted tall ship. It normally held 120 people, but there were 50 on our cruise. It was very informal and laid back. Having dinner at the Captain’s Table meant, you had to put a shirt on, shoes were optional. BBQ’s on the beach, sleeping on the deck under 10 Bajjilion stars. . . Not a cruise for everyone.

Sweet!

John is such a good kisser, it knocked the stripes off Elly’s shorts.

An excellent choice!

Nicely done…

Good choice

Make another baby? Horizontal Mambo? The possibilities are endless.

That’s a pretty small boat,compared to some of the floating cities on the water today. Shuffleboard championship match at 3PM

Rock the boat!

You can do that at home. So many things to do on a cruise and not enough time.

At least John has his priorities straight

Great answer, John!

The woman: “Ooh, looks like fun. May I join?”

Great choice.

Yeah, cruise ships were a lot more fun 30 years ago. Now you just get to be annoyed by helicopter Mommy & Daddy and stumble over their kids ;-)

Awwwww!

Some things can’t be ‘scheduled’…

I really wish you could hear this; Home fires Burning by Carolyn Arends

I still remember our first December

The warmth of your touch and the spark in your eyes

We took desire and built us a fire

I know it will last us the rest of our lives

So let it rain, let it storm

We’ll keep believing ’cause love keeps us warm

We are making our way, we are twisting and turning

Through it all we can see that every day

We are living and learning, we’re finding a way

To keep the home fires burning

Days turn to years, we live through our tears

We laugh at our fears ‘cause we’ve known from the start

Though life makes us older it can’t make us colder

As long as this flame still remains in our hearts

So let it rain, let it storm

We’ll keep believing ’cause love keeps us warm

We are making our way, we are twisting and turning

Through it all we can see that every day

We are living and learning, we’re finding a way

To keep the home fires burning

Sure there are days when some misunderstanding

Lets in a cold winter chill but the fire never dies

’Cause you and I always remember to tend to the embers

And I know that we always will, I know we always will be

We are making our way, we are twisting and turning

Through it all we can see that every day

We are living and learning, we’re finding a way

To keep the home fires burning

Now that you’ve established the tone of the trip …

That’s so sweet!

Careful….that’s how April happened.

I felt my age a few days ago, my nurses aide stepped into my room when they were playing that new cruise line commercial that uses the old theme to the “Love Boat” and I said something about how appropriate it was that they were using the love boat theme for a commercial about the Princess line cruises. My aide had never heard of the Love Boat and had no idea what I was talking about.

Let’s make a Poseidon Adventure outta this one!!

Yep, keep to the basics

First things first!

Wait, she just found out about all that now?

Ok that will kill 20 minutes