Day 8 - at sea

ok, we are rocking and rolling this morning and it’s just plain nasty out our balcony window. We set an alarm this morning cuz we prefer to eat in the dining room as opposed to the sheer chaos at the breakfast buffet and it was well worth it. Had a good chuckle as we were picking our Timmy’s scorers for tonight’s NHL games and mentioned the Flames and the guy on my right hand side said, you’re not talking about the Calgary Flames to which we replied ‘yes’ and the guy to our left said, well, you won’t be liking us - they were Oilers fans. What are the chances?? I had to avoid looking out the window cuz geez those waves were high but things calmed down quite a bit throughout the day and we actually saw some blue sky and a tiny sunset before dinner. We were seated tonight with 2 couples from Australia and a couple from Newmarket…again, what are the chances? The conversation was lively and interesting, following which we went to the evening performance and then off to bed, reasonably early tonight. Excited to be able to get off the boat tomorrow - we are docking in IJmuiden tomorrow, only an hour out of Amsterdam, but you really only get maybe 4 hours to explore and we figured that just wouldn’t do it justice and we had already talked about going to Amsterdam for an extended period another time, so we are going to make our own way to a city called Haarlem, from which the district of Harlem in New York was named.Read more