Sequel to My Online Kink Match Part 9

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On the evening of the 20th, I drove myself to the nice convention hotel we had been in with Susan. He would meet me at the party and Barb and her nerd boyfriend were driving separately. I parked in the validated parking lot and took the elevator to the top floor where the party was to be held. This was the concierge deck and absolutely wealthy personified. I had to ask at the concierge station where the room was the party was being held and he directed me in the right direction. When I found the room, the door was held ajar by the safety lock and I assumed that was n purpose. I could hear the party going on inside. I knocked tentatively on the door and it swung open revealing a very large suite of rooms with people crowded into it each with a glass of drink in hand. Standing just inside the doorway was Susan as if she was standing at attention. I gasped a little since she was in a bustier that had her tits mostly exposed on the costume platform. Her nipples which previously had little dumb bell piercings, now had large rings the size of Barb's. She had on black stockings held up by garters attached to the bustier. She had on no panties but her crotch was covered by a small apron around her waist. On her head was a little maid's cap. As I stepped in she said in a weak voice “Hello Mistress Anna, Thank you so much for attending my coming out party this evening. I stand by to assist you in any way. Please find your name tag on the table to my right. May I provide you with a glass of champagne?” I took the champagne from her outstretch hand and managed to say “How are you Susan?”
“I am very fine, thank you Mistress.”
I heard some folks outside in the hallway and quickly found my name tag and put it on my nice dress I had worn and walked into the room of people. I quickly saw some folks I knew such as Old Joe and some of the dancers/waitresses from The Honey Be Bar and Mr Manson I decided I needed to pay my respects to the host first so I crossed though the crowd and stood by waiting to say hello until Mr. Manson finished talking to a distinguished looking man in a suit. He was just finishing up some point about PonyGirls and the virtues of home discipline when he saw me. He broke off the conversation and introduced me to his friend who he called Representative Boyer who I recognized from some political flyers in my junk mail. He called me Mistress Anna. Representative Boyer gave me a wolfish grin and took my hand telling me he was honored to have met me. I swear his hand was greasy. Mr. Manson brought me into their conversation quickly explaining that he was unsure whether it would be better for Susan to be just a home disciplined slave or if she should become a PonyGirl.Without thinking I said”Why can't she be both” thinking I was being sarcastic. Instead he laughed and told the Representative “I told you she was a winner! I am going to talk with Jay about her becoming my driver for Susan as well as his Pony.” The Representative chimed in oily “I spotted across the room she is a winner, and good looking as well.”
I was repulsed but what could I do bus say “Thank you for that compliment.” Happily I saw Barb and her nerd enter the room. The nerd must have been well thought of of because as they came across the room plenty of people wanted to say hello to him and shake his hand as well. They arrived shortly to us to pay their respects as well and I was entertained as the nerd discussed the finer points of owning your own slave girl and also how intended to race PonyGirls also in the future when the stock offering was completed. Barb was just looking at him awe the entire time. I made an excuse to leave as soon as I could after being entertained some more about some of the finer points of PonyGirl racing such as the proper fitting of ass plugs and dildos, blinders or no blinders, the choice of racing colors and also how to treat the girls going from harsh to easy. I made my way over to say hi to Old Joe and the girls from The Honey Be Bar. The girls all welcomed me vigorously but Old Joe did not seem to remember me. The reminded him that I was the one who beat Susan in the whip fight and he laughed uproariously as he remembered. “Yeah, you are the one that humbled that bitch of a woman. She beat several of my waitresses up over the years when she got jealous. Well good on you.! Good on you!.”
I thought it was a good time to do a little business and I talked to Joe about being a guest on our program and also asked the girls if they might want to be guests as well. Most thought they would and Old Joe said he would. I told them I would make the arrangements when I got back from vacation. As we talked Barb arrived, leaving the nerd to talk with the representative and Mr. Manson. When Old Joe was reminded that Barb had won the oil wresting contest on Halloween, he again suddenly remembered that she had designated him to be the recipient of the blowjob and gave her a big kiss saying “Bless you child. That was the best Birthday gift anyone ever gave me!” Old Joe was Old after all . I thought he might also be a little senile although good natured. I gave a look that said “Come with me as I wander off, She caught up a few minutes later and we dished on the fact that Susan was all but naked at a really swanky part. I told her about the PonyGirl discussion as well ending with”I think you are going to have her as company in training and racing.” She eyed me dubiously and not believing it. I told her “Believe it, it is going to happen!”

We circulated between groups of very elite socialites including Senators, Representatives, government officials and businessman, and the lower orders of Road Rangers, strippers, and small business owners. Even the Tattoo parlor owner was there. It was a real smorgasbord of people and the conversation was all about their passion for BDSM. We were in a sweet spot, I guess. I did find out about Munches and some other things while we talked including the locations of events and dungeons. Finally he arrived and I knew relief was in sight. Hopefully he would make his rounds and we could get out of there.

Even then it took an hour or so before he ushered me out the door to go to dinner with him leaving Barb and the nerd behind to fend for themselves. I saw our two workers hovering over the waitresses and strippers from The Honey Be Bar. I did not fail to note all the people who knew him as he made his rounds carefully talking to almost everyone. I started to really wonder who exactly he was in addition to my Master. Before I just thought of him as that guy who really set me on fire but now I saw he was obviously something a lot more. Before we left, Mr. Manson made a s***ch about how happy he was that Susan had finally seen the light and become his 24/7, in not small part because of the efforts of Mistress Anna. I received a round of applause when her pointed me out. We did not get out of there fast enough as far as I was concerned.

We went to dinner at the restaurant in the hotel. We sat an had a very nice dinner and chatted together. For the first time I really tried to dig into his past an he allowed it occur but I did not get too much information since he was very adept at deflecting questions or answering very vague responses and turning the tables on me. All that did was to pique my interest. After dinner he walked me to my car and promised to see mo on the 22nd on the boat.

Two days later my alarm clock went off early – 4am – on the 22nd and I got out of bed fast. I had scarcely slept due to my excitement about leaving on the cruise. The boys, Barb and I had packed the car the night before so that when we woke up it would be a short time to get everyone to the car and leave for the airport. We had a nonstop plane ride to Fort Lauderdale after we parked the car. We hooded it into the airport after parking and got our luggage checked. The boys each had one of those 4 foot duffles and a small knapsack for each of them. It was the first luggage each of them owned. Barbs and my bags were identical but were hard cases and large. We each also had a small carry on bag for toiletries and personal items. Everyone had their passports ready. The bags were tagged both with the airline tags and out luggage tags for the ship which were gaudy and flimsy. I had replacements in case they did not survive the air flight down. This was the first airline fight the boys and I had ever taken. Barb was the expert with one flight under her belt. We ate a small breakfast at home and then took some snacks in the boys backpacks for on the plane. We waited patiently for the flight after we went through the security procedures. Finally we boarded and a hill went through me that this was actually happening. Barb and I sat side by side, her in the window seat and me in the middle seat. The boys had an entire row to themselves with the youngest in the middle. A young man on the aisle seat with us smiled as he watched me and Barb hod hands during the taxi on the tarmac. “First Flight?”
We nodded our heads, too apprehensive to actually talk.
“Don't worry, flying on airlines is much safer than driving your car. We will hardly get into the air before you are there. The entire flight is just an hour and a half plus ground time. The stewardesses will be picking up by the time they are done giving us some coffee. The landing is really the scariest part but don't worry the pilots will get us down safely.”
Both of us closed our eyes and the engines turned up and then we moved. As the plane came off the ground I could scarcely keep a small eek from escaping from my throat. Instead I looked out the window and saw the city falling away from us as we climbed fast. The young man was right, the flight was over almost as soon as it was done. We deplaned without incident and excitedly went to the baggage claim area. We had been told when we had our baggage to proceed directly to the center of the arrivals area and look for the bus marked with our cruise line transportation. Everything went just right with the driver stowing our luggage for us and assuring us it was on about a ten minutes drive to our cruise line. We had to keep our passports in our hands as we went through the gate in case they wanted to check on them. Instead we were waved directly through. He dropped us off at berth 23 right in front of a large terminal with our ship behind it. As we got off, a porter took all of our bags. I tipped the bus driver and the porter ten bucks each. We carried on our small bags and knapsacks. Keeping the boys in line was Barb's job and she harried them to keep up or hectored them to slow down as we went in to get checked on. We were one of the first ones to arrive and we went right into the check in area. They had facial scanners who took our picture and the attendant scanned our passports for identification Then were were given boarding passes and directed to the next area. It was all kind of bewildering. We went through another scanning process to look at our bags and make sure we were not carrying any prohibited stuff. Then were were directed up an escalator into a large room where we waited in rows of people while the ship was being given final clearance to board. We followed the wheelchairs, walkers and others who had disabilities closely behind them When we got to the end of the gangway, they scanned our faces again and looked at our boarding passes. Your rooms will not be ready for about an hour we were told but if you go to the 9th deck, you can get snacks, sodas, food or just relax for a while. Also that is the area for the main pool, the outside pool, the health spa, exercise room and a hamburger and pizza shop. All the food is included so you might want that instead of looking through the kiosks. We learned quickly the 9th deck was the lido deck. Each deck had a name. We were assured that as the rooms became available they would be announced by deck and we could go to our rooms. Our rooms were on the fifth deck which was the lower Veranda deck. When we got to the Lido deck Barb and I collapsed into chairs at a table in the buffet area and the boys went to explore the food selections. They came back after a short period with plates with all kinds of things piled high and looking really tasty. I did not feel hungry, so I just had a cup of coffee. When the boys had stuffed their faces sufficiently, we explored the 9th deck and saw where the Spa was forward with the spacious gym that had all kinds of exercise equipment. The pool was an indoor pol surrounded by the hamburger joint, the pizza joint and a bar. Around the large pool were all kinds of lounge chairs which were filling up fast with people drinking cocktails already. I asked at the bar how the people had already gotten cocktails and he asked if I had my boarding pass, he could just put it on our room if I did. I got a soda as did all the boys. Barb got a galas of wine. Then we drifted back through the buffet area and to an outdoor pool which was designated as a smoking area and an adult only area. It also had a bar. The boys were all watching the young girls who were with their families. About that time our rooms were cleared and we took the stairs to avoid the rush for elevators down to the fifth deck. It was not bad going down but it would be a long climb up. When we got there we found our suites. Barb and I saw that next to the door was an large envelope and some other papers for each room. Inside the envelope were our stateroom keys. We got the boys inside their room, allowed them to explore and then opened up our room. We had a fairly nice deck which we could enter through large sliding doors. The room had a lot of space, a TV at the foot of the bed, a small couch and a desk you could sit at with a chair. I thought it was very nice. Better than most hotel rooms I had been in. We sorted through the papers that had been in the mai slot for the room, went over the itinerary and also read all of the different little things cruise lines provide to you. We set up our internet connection and signed into the onboard app that allowed us to carry the itinerary where ever we went. We talked about the excursions we might sign up for and also inventoried the *** we had available for small things we might like to buy in the ports. I noticed a small envelope that had also been with the papers and opened it up. It was a note from him saying he suggested that when we were comfortable with the lodgings and the ship that we should take the boys up to the *** club, sign them up which made them safe , and allowed them access to the club for them. After that he suggested that the two of us should join for a few minutes to toast each other with a glass of Champagne. He was in room 728 on the concierge deck.

We rounded up the boys who were having a blast seeing the luxury they would live in the next few days. Barb and I were just as excited on the accommodations feeling that we were now in the upper class. We went up to the 11th deck and took a short tour of the facility. From then on the kids could use their key cards to access the facility. Inside were all kinds of pinball and video game stations, a pace whee snacks and drinks were available and some larger spaces for dances and functions to be held for the ***s. The younger kids were separated out to give the ***s some space and safety for the smaller *** who could be dropped off by parents. The facility was always staffed by some adults to maintain some good supervision but the ***s were able to come and go as they pleased. They gave the boys a list of activities and some functions such as dances and sports schedules. I felt very comfortable with them in there. We wee also told they could use the big pool at their desires since they were over 13. Other than that, they were allowed free range of the ship in the customer areas except for the bars, older clubs, and the casino. Everything as long as they were not breaking rules, they had access to . We left the three of them up there cautioning them to be back to the room by 5:30 since or fining time was six and they had to get into suitable attire for the dining room which meant long pants, collared shirt and real shoes. They promised they would. We wandered down to the 7th deck via the elevator and found rom 728. Good lord, if we had thought our accommodations were luxurious we had seen nothing as yet. His suite was larger than three of our size suites. He had along deck outside his room which we immediately saw was very comfortable He opened a bottle of champagne that had been on ice and had been delivered to his room along with a bunch of snacks. We toasted our vacation and he inquired to make sure everything was fine with us and did we have any questions. He laid out a few basic rules for us including we had some scheduled events he had laid on primarily massage and spa days. Also he had a schedule for the two of us, in rotation, being with him in the evenings. Either of us were going to be with him this evening since he was probably going to gamble all night long. Instead he suggested we all go to the show in the main theater which was a comedian. He also suggested we take advantage of an off night and spend some time in the clubs aboard where we could listen to music and dance if we wanted to. The schedule was that Barb would be with him from about 10 pm the first night. Then I would be with him on Christmas Eve. We would have dinner that night together, go gambling and finally end up in his suite for some alone time as he quaintly put it. He suggested that Barb look after the boys by hosting a movie night since there were a wide selection of movies on the tube. The kids could have a full range of in room dining at their beck and call for the evening. I would be back into the room early that night probably around midnight. Barb would spend Christmas with starting in the afternoon after we had all slept in. Then the night rotated with us arriving at his room at 10pm and leaving at 2am or so. On New years Eve, I was to be his date for some functions and also spend the night with him. Barb would be his for New Years day after we slept in. Our last night he would take the two of us gambling together and since it was our last night aboard he would help us cash out and make sure our cards were clean of debt. He also offered if he had not put enough *** on our cards for excursions we should just use our cards over the limit he had specified. He also told us he would be giving us an allowance for gambling each time we were with him. Our winnings were added to our accounts and when we cashed out, the winnings were ours to keep. Frankly we were blown away. We left soon after, with our instructions. The entire evening was like a dream. The boys spent most of their time in the *** center and Barb and I discovered most of the bars and clubs aboard. I am afraid both of us were some what drunk by the time we got back to our rooms and the boys had already turned in. We had danced and had a ball making new friends The following day we arrived early morning at the private island the cruise line owned. Barb and I were pretty well hungover but made the first boat to the shore to start our excursions. We were set to have a lobster boil on the beach, the boys went water skiing and parachute riding. Barb and I snorkeled in the clear waters and in the afternoon had a great picnic on the beach with the lobster boil. I had never tasted lobster and found I loved it. We arrived back aboard the ship, sunburned and wind blown and exhausted. Barb had duty that night and dressed nicely went off at about 10 pm. I watched a movie until the kids finally checked back in saying they were in the stateroom. I had ordered up some dinner with room service. The boys had eaten on the lido deck. The next two days were both at sea days. Barb arrived about 3am. She woke me up when she came in and we dished for a few minutes before she fell fast asleep. They had gambled and he taught her how to play roulette and craps and then they had played the slots for a while. He had given her a hundred dollar to gamble with initially and she manged to break just about even. Then they had returned to his room and fooled around a little bit before he let he come back to the our room. We could not sleep in past ten the next day since were scheduled for beauty parlor time and massages.

We woke up in plenty of time and one of the things we wanted to do was to shop the stores which opened at 9am. We took the boys with us so they could buy gifts for each other since they had a hundred dollar onboard spending credit. A lot of the shops had clothing, expensive jewelry, duty free booze and some souvenirs primarily promoting the cruise line. There were other things but you had to look to find them. I bought the boys some Christmas presents and one for Barb as well and had them wrapped. Of course everything was paid for by presenting your cad and debiting either your onboard credit or went onto your final bill. I had cautioned the boys to spend what they wanted to but not go over the hundred dollar credit. Barb and I had more credited for us. We left the boys to their shopping and Barb cautioned them to make sure they were back int the room no later than 7 pm since I had met a man the night before and had a date that night. Together they would have a movie night in our suite. This was the first of the dressy nights for the cruise. I was planning on wearing my Green mistress outfit since it was so classy and I knew it was his favorite color. We spent most of the day lounging in the spa getting our hair done, make up done and getting a massage. We had enough time when we got back to our suite for short nap before I had to get ready to fo meet him. I have to say I looked my best and he whistled a little when he opened the door for me. He had a glass of wine poured for me but we had to leave in a few minutes since we had reservations at a specialty dinner place. We arrived a few minutes early and had a drink at a bar next to the restaurant, I a martini and him a manhattan. I felt really classy and felt god seeing how I measured up to the other ladies who had gussied themselves up. We were escorted to our table and he asked if I would like him to order for me just like you see in the movies. He ordered us the crab cakes appetizer, a caesar salad for each of us, is with anchovies and mine without, a filet for me medium rare and a lobster, he a New York Strip steak, both served with broiled asparagus and twice baked potatoes along with another Martin and manhattan. We would decide if we were hungry enough to have dessert at the end of the meal. It was a very romantic setting and we watched the sun set into the horizon as we dined. The food was unbelievably good and far too much for each of us although he managed to put away a good portion of his. We decided to split a small piece of key lime pie with each other with an after dinner drink.While we finishing up, he gave me a small box snd said Merry Christmas. When I opened it up, it was a beautiful god chain with an emerald pendant. I have no idea how much it cost but I think it was a lot since the emerald was very large. He placed it around my neck and gave me a kiss as he did so.

When we left we headed to the Casino. He put two hundred dollar bills on the roulette table as we walked in and told the girl to give me green chips and him yellow. We each got a large stack of chips and he told me to pick some numbers from one to 32. I picked the years the boys were born. Since they had each been born in sequential years, he pondered on that for a moment and then said pick one more. I said 17 since that is the day of the month I was born. He nodded and said fine. “This is my little ritual to see if I am feeling lucky before I gamble. He ha two numbers next to each other 17 and 18, and then two more numbers which were 25 and 27. he shoed me how to box the numbers to provide some insurance by putting chips on the corners of the numbers. Since my three numbers were sequential, I put chips on the outside corners and not the middle ones. He did the same with 17 and 18 but also boxed the other corners. Then he boxed the other two numbers. In the middle of each number he place from five chis except for 17 where he placed ten chips. I did the same adding my ten chips on top of his chips and five in the other boxes. He won a small amount when 19 came up on the first round. As the chips were swept away I thought we would not be doing this very long but he insisted we do the same thing. He hit small on 25 and collected a little over $150 dollars on that roll taking $50 dollars in what he termed as Colored ships which were the Casino chips and could be used at any game. He had me put the same combination of chips on the board and we hit on 17. This time he had colored up half of each of our winnings and since we had boxed the numbers I had a huge pile of green chips in front of me along with $150 dollars in my pocket as did he. We went on a tear for a while coloring our chips upas we won and only after 17 hit a second time did we shit our big pile to another number of our choice. By now I had something that looked like about $400 dollars inf front of me on the table and quite a few colored chips in my pocket which was really his left pocket where I stored them since I did not have pockets in my dress. We kept it up for while and then the action died down for us and we slowly lost our big pile of chips in front of us. When I told mim we should quit, he said “No, never scoff at a winning streak. Just ride it for now. We are ahead so we are playing on the houses ***.” The inevitable happened but not before we colored up some more small wins. Our green and yellow chips disappeared. On our last set of bets he threw the operator the left over chips and said, that is for you to play or keep. Our chips were all gone and we did not win on that roll of the ball. I was disappointed until we walked away and he dug my chips out of his pocket and showed me that I had over $600. “We are lucky tonight. We will try some craps.” We walked over to the craps table and it seemed our luck had deserted us. He started us off with a hundred dollars each and we played for while as he explained the game. When the dice came to me as the shooter I tried to get out of it but he told me to try so I threw the dice down the table and had a small wining streak as the first throw came up 7. He had a small system we would use, backing our come out rolls with any crap bets and then when the point came up we would buy the six and eight with odds and put chips on the come. The game was fast and I never quite caught on to what we were doing but we played for about an hour and ended up about twenty dollars ahead for both of us. I had just mimicked what he had done. He decided we might do better at slots and went over to his favorite games where he played at levels of up to ten dollars per pull and I played at the 50 cent level. We used our cards to take winnings and put more one when we did. I won a small pot and decided I just wanted to keep the entire thing of about a hundred dollars. We banked that and I kept him company as he played. Finally he won a sizable pot of about $1200 dollars and we decided to leave the casino. We took our chips with us he signed the papers for his pot, and we banked the rest of what he had on the machine onto his card. Going up to the room he told me he figured he was up by about $1600. With his winnings the night before he was up about $2000. I would find out over the next few days he did all of the calculations in his head and was always pretty close to the correct amount. He had showed me how the slot machines counted his bets and all of that allowed him to accumulate perks in the future such as free play, free suites, stuff the casino sent to his room and entries into tournaments in the future. He was kind of what you call a small whale playing primarily for the points he racked up so he could get perks as he bet big sums. Again I did not understand it all but he seemed happy with his progress. When we got to his room he pointed at a tray of chocolate covered strawberries and said “Those are wasted on me but I get things like that all the time from the Casino. Mostly what I want is to win jackpots so I get free cruises. This stateroom was free for me.” He cracked opened a bottle of wine, also a courtesy from the Casino and we toasted to each other's success. Later that night I had to reset my clock since I had a man inside of me in my cunt. It was more satisfying if less orgasmic that my massive orgasms he gave me. It as specially satisfying since we both came together. Later we fed each other Strawberries, talked and drank wine util about two in the morning and then he told me I should head back to my room to not arouse too much suspicion from the boys. I realized that it was the first time in quite along time I did not have any welts or bruises to remind me of him. I didn't need them.

Barb and I slept in the next day which was Christmas. The boys were outrunning around somewhere and I just relaxed knowing that would find food somewhere since it was ubiquitous aboard the ship. Barb and I watched some TV for a wile before she had to leave and then the boys showed up. We were going to have dinner in the dining room but before we did, we exchanged our presents. Each of them had found some things for me like make up and perfume and little things. The had each bought each other some clothes and hats. Diner was fabulous and I saw Barb and him gambling again when we waked by the Casino that afternoon on the way to dinner. Barb showed back up early around 10 Pm and showed me the necklace he had gotten her with a sapphire, I saw it at first with some jealousy but then realized my stone was much bigger. The following day we arrived at Saint Lucia. We took a tour of the island and stopped at a nice place for lunch for our excursion. After we got back I went to the later show with him and went to a club as well to do some dancing. We had a nice time in his state room and againI was left without bruises or welts but still satisfied.

The next night was a dressy night again and Barb had her date at a specialty restaurant which Asian food and then went gambling again. This time she was a small winner of a couple of hundred bucks. She was home early as well. Things were great. We had spent most of the day being lazy around the pool and swimming. The boys had all found girlfriends except the youngest who found a friend he played video games and pinball with. All in all a great day for at sea. We were right now essentially at the half way point for the cruise.

The next five days were essentially mirror images of the first 5 days. We pulled into Aruba the next morning, the following day Bonaire, and then Curacao. Each day we toured the islands, shopped in the straw markets and then usually toured a museum or some fort or the town. Each night we would pull back out to sea for the next port. He stopped gambling so much and paid more attention to us when we reported to him. We were often tied up and then beaten with gags in our mouths to keep us quiet. That was normally followed by anal sex with both us since I was now a player as well. It wasn't ideal but he did give us great massive orgasms with the devices and then great after care. After we got underway after Curacao, on New Years Eve, I celebrated the ringing in of the new year with the ringing of my bells as he caned me hard. Then he had me in the ass. The next day I was sore and sipped the massage day despite it would have been a great relief for my sore body. I just did not want to display my welts and bruises. As it was I was restricted into long pants for the last two days with no swimming as well since m breasts were badly striped and bruised as well. My four stars were back on my ass for the first time in a long time and I took some pride in that. Barb got the same treatment or perhaps somewhat worse on New Years day. She waddled into the room a little earlier than normal and just went right to bed after a hot shower. The boys were all wrapped up in watching football games so they never even noticed us wincing as we walked around. Still, the vacation was coming to a great ending. The following day, he the two of us gambling and we ran out the free play we had accumulated and he cashed us both out. Somehow, I ended up with just a thousand dollars in winnings. He won a large jackpot that made hi happy and I am sure he was still ahead of the casino as well as getting all kinds of points for his gambling so he would be asked back often and with great perks. Barb was the lowest winner, only ahead by two hundred. We said goodby at abut ten o'clock that night since we had to have our luggage outside of our doors by midnight. He took his pleasure us side by side before we left but he did not beat us that night. I was a little disappointed I did not get another massive orgasm. We left the ship the next morning with the first tranche of people departing since we had fights to catch. The porters got their tips and we were on the bus and heading home. By noon that day we arrived home. We were all exhausted even the boys. Each of them were worried abut how much they had eaten the last few days and they needed to make weight for a tournament in a few days so they started starving themselves on the way home. Barb and I were looking forward to opening our business. All in all we had a great time. I wondered if I would ever have that opportunity again to see the world.