Prayers requested

For two co-workers:
Jennifer B., who is waiting for the results of a breast biopsy
Lilly F., whose husband passed away this week

World’s biggest floating hotel arrives

It has room for approximately 6000 passengers (and about a third as many crew), and has enough onboard diversions that you may not even notice you’re at sea: Oasis of the Seas

For comparison purposes, the last cruise ship to be greeted with this amount of hoopla, the Queen Mary 2, can carry a little over 2600 passengers, has a length of 1132 feet, and a tonnage of 151,400

MC Escher’s Anglo Saxon Precursor

Carl Prydum (at Got Medieval) explains it all, with one of the items that is part of the Staffordshire Hoard.