Amsterdam, Netherlands

Today was suppose to be a sea day on our way to Le Havre but we were unable to sail until around 5pm. At 8:30am an announcement from the captain woke me up. It really caught my attention when he started the announcement with "Some of you might be wondering why we are still docked in Amsterdam" when we were suppose to sail at 1am. To get out of Amsterdam we have to go through a lock. The problem was that there was gale force winds up to 30 knots which is stronger then our side thrusters. So we wouldn't be able to make it through the lock until the wind died down.

I ended up going into work anyways to do some more training on how to do all the different paperwork (which there is a LOT of). I was IPM today so I also had to open up the gallery early. Our manager Chris went out for subway though after the training and picked me up one as well. Which is probably all I would have done if I could have gotten off anyways. Training also included a free hot chocolate so I was happy.Read more