Monday, January 3, 2011

Professional Photos

On a cruise one of the things that always happens is you get your picture taken constantly. Getting off the ship, getting on the ship, all dressed up, casual, eating, you get the picture. They got us on a few of them, here they are...


Black and white pals...
1st Formal night - attitude girl!
1st Formal night - Nikki's Mermaid Dress
2nd Formal night, and this is the most beautiful I have ever seen Nikki look, and man - did she turn heads that night! Well worthy of a professional shot!
Milford Sound calendar... Ida's fav!


Thursday, December 23, 2010

“Words of the Day” – Tuesday, December 21, 2010

“I might just melt and fall down the plug hole” (Ida talking about how luxurious her bath is at our hotel. First bath in 2 weeks, and a proper sized tub, one you can actually like down in, that’s really really deep and fills up in about 45 seconds.) We did bathe onboard, only in a shower stall, knocked about like pin balls…)

Arrive back in Melbourne – Tuesday, December 21, 2010

It was a sad day today. We had to leave the ship that has been our home for the last 13 days. We are both so tired… being on holiday is exhausting! Squeezing all the joy out of every single day is a task in and of itself.


We found ourselves a hotel next to Melbourne airport and are now getting ready for our flight home tomorrow morning. Went out for a bite to eat and got caught in downpour! AGAIN!! Photos to prove it!!
The biggest Lollie Shop in the world is just down the street from our hotel, so we had to pay that a visit as well. Do not put it on your bucket list it was not that impressive. We must have bigger candy shops than that in Florida for sure, they have all the worlds down there… Denim World, Bait Shop World… you know.

“Words of the Day” – Monday, December 20th

NumNum!!

Two!!

NB These are for our own private amusement, don’t even ask!!!!

At Sea – Monday, December 20th

It was another rough day at sea today. The Tasman Sea is really rough, it causes the ship to more than just rock, it makes it shiver. And for those of us at the back of the boat it gets even worse. Multiple times it felt like an earthquake on the ship.

Today is our last full day on the ship, so between the logistics that needed to be taken care of (ie. packing, organizing, eating) there was also the last minute rush to spend some more time with the people that had become our friends over the last couple of weeks. We have been treated so well this whole time.

The little boat that Nikki had seen being built won its boat race today.
Nikki with Hank, who is the namesake of the Oasis Bar renamed to Hank’s Bar. He is a really cool Dutchmen who lives in Australia.
Tonight’s Dinner Beer was: Greenman and Strongman

Picture of our dinner mates.

Our waiters Peter and Gerardo.

We went to the last show of the cruise which was a talent show put on by the crew, based on the British holiday camps of the 50s and 60s. It was hysterical; simple, rude and fun.
Then it was off to Jammers again where Nikki had Tall Poppy India Red Ale as shown in the picture with Joel seemingly praying to it.
And then we tried to stay up until we docked, well Nikki tried anyway, Ida was much more responsible. But eventually even Nikki decided that some sleep was a good idea, after she had used her extra hour of time change to stay up chatting and swilling with her new friends til 4.30 am!!!

“Words of the Day” – Sunday, December 19th

Permagrin = huge grin permanently on one’s face, often alcohol induced or related to the fun factor. As in, ATVing has a fun factor of 9 out of 10, which earns it a permagrin designation.

Hitch in yer get up = moving slower than usual

Ida: (Regarding the paper tips left by the waiters and bar staff on the business end of one’s straw) "Do you think there are little paper balls all about the ship?"

Billabong = Pond

Tucker Bag = Food Bag

Jum Buck = Sheep

At Sea – Sunday December 19th

We were working on the blog today a bit and found a terrible place to work.

Tonight was our 2nd and last formal night. So we all go dressed up, had a great dinner of steak and lobster and king prawns. Just awful, you missed nothing! Then we had Baked Alaska (called Bomb Alaska by Aussies) for dessert. In the picture are the kitchen crew and the Baked Alaska parade.
Nikki’s beer of the evening was Wobbly Boot and she learned that “Waltzing Matilda really is the national anthem of Australia” and there followed a lesson in Aus as to the vocabulary used in the song. Quite an education!

We had great servers in our waiter, Peter and the assistant waiter, Gerardo.

Cruise Director – Mark Turner & Deputy Cruise Director– Andre Schlemmer

It was a great sunset tonight with rain again in the distance which hit the ship later on. The sunset pictures were taken after 10 pm.

We had a New Year’s eve style party in the Atrium.