What's All This Then?

My wife and I are going on a 35 day cruise. Yes, I said 35. It will obviously be the biggest thing we ever do, so I decided to share my thoughts on the planning, and eventually the cruise and ports itself as it happens. I'll hopefully be uploading some photos as well.

ALL OF THE PICTURES HAVE NOW BEEN UPLOADED.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Day 30–At sea

So lazy today I didn’t even take a picture. Not much to see in any case. Watched a geology presentation, and then the captain came on with yet another itinerary change. This time a storm was brewing near St. Anthony, and with 12 foot seas, tendering would be impossible. So we are making our way straight for St. John’s in Newfoundland, arriving at 5 PM tomorrow for an overnight, and we’ll be docked. The captain was hoping we’d understand (what’s not to understand?) and finished with his dry humor of “I hope you’re all enjoying your 2012 Voyage of the Vikings adventure.” Apparently we’re in an a spate of unusual weather changes and itinerary changes for this yearly cruise.

Heck, I like this change. St. John’s purportedly has a good number of restaurants and pubs, and with a 5 PM arrival I might actually get to enjoy some nightlife.

Felt “off” all day, so we again tried a movie at 9 PM. Neesh was out 6 minutes in, I made it to about an hour and 15 minutes. Crap. Woke up at 11, and tuned into another movie, and watched the last 45 minutes of it, and it was really dumb. Something about Apollo 6(?) with rocks turning into moon creatures attacking the crew, blah, blah, blah, filmed similar to Blair Witch Project. Really bad. Yet I couldn’t turn it off. Hmmm. Went to sleep to some showers and the seas getting rougher. Zzzzzzz.

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6 comments:

  1. JustJoeAugust 14, 2012 at 11:33 AM

    Lazy Bash-tidge! ;-)

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    1. SaltySailsAugust 20, 2012 at 1:22 PM

      Even lazier to not get the final few days written up!

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  2. Brian Moon Walk On Da Moon Rock MivilleAugust 14, 2012 at 5:06 PM

    Damn, if only I had known I would have taken Thursday off and driven up to see you guys.....pffft, yeah right. ;)

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    1. SaltySailsAugust 20, 2012 at 1:23 PM

      You missed some gorgeous weather. OTOH, we skipped our tour. :( We'll be going up there next year for sure.

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  3. John GutowskiAugust 15, 2012 at 5:13 PM

    If you're adventurous, there's a restaurant in St. Johns that used to serve seal flipper pie. Don't know if they still do or not. We went to the restaurant to try some and they were closed and we didn't have a chance to make a return trip.
    Let me know how it is. :-)

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    1. SaltySailsAugust 20, 2012 at 1:21 PM

      I passed. :) That and the fermented (aka rotten) shark in Iceland. I do have some reindeer sausage at least.

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