It’s a little after 11 p.m. on the last night of the cruise. I’m just about out of minutes on my internet plan. Nina has quite a few minutes left so I may use some of hers to get some pictures posted. The suitcases are packed and will be put outside in the hallway after we get back to the room. We’ll have breakfast about 7:30 a.m. and then wait for our number to be called. At that time the cruise is officially over.
We’ve got two nights in the Hilton Hotel at the Amsterdam Schipol Airport. I think we’ll find someplace in downtown Amsterdam for dinner tomorrow night. We should have high-speed internet at the hotel and can begin catching up on what’s been happening in the world. I can’t imagine much has changed for the better.
Today was a sea day. We spent the entire day sailing towards Rotterdam where we’ll dock about 6 a.m. tomorrow morning. So I slept all the way until 8:30 a.m. this morning. We had a leasurely breakfast. I finished reading my paperback book and put it on the paperback exchange shelf for someone else to read if they wish. Most of the paperbacks on the shelf are romances. I think the only science fiction one on the shelf is the one I put there. I paid my last visit to the hot tub while Nina did some swimming. We had a nice dinner and even bought a couple of pictures (mother … your picture is in the suitcase!). We decided not to go to the show tonight but rather sit out on the veranda and watch the oil drilling platforms go by as we sailed through the North Sea Oil Field. Those are the rigs the make Norway’s Gross Domestic Product per resident the highest in the world at about $54,000 (the US is quite a bit further back at $38,000). These oil rigs are huge. And, I’m over two thousand pictures for the trip. I’m sure glad they’re digital and don’t have any cost associated with them! There were quite a few people on our tours that were still shooting film. I’m sure they sill spend enough money on film and processing to pay for a digital camera.
We’re already starting to plot our next cruise…. Meanwhile I’ve posted a very few pictures in the Picture Album.