Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 COPENHAGEN, DENMARK SUNSHINE!! BUT COLD
The stock market report today shows the DOW at
$24,099.05. We have daily reports in
the newspaper that now arrives about 10 am since we are so many hours ahead of
New York. I woke about 6 am and found
Mary in the Lido at breakfast when I arrived at 7 am. We are all excited today
about our Hop on Off Bus tour of the city of Copenhagen. The highlight is getting off to photograph
the “Little Merimaid”, famous because of the writer Hans Christian Anderson.
Our movie today is “Wonder” with Julie Roberts. It’s fun with the movies as they first show
them twice in a theater and then the next day it runs all day on the
television. So most of our movies we
watch piecemeal depending on what else is going on during the day. Many times we see the end before we see the
beginning
.
It was nice having email and we were able to catch up on the
world, send emails, texts and most importantly post to Facebook before leaving
port with photos and a brief story to keep friends and family updated on our
trip. We also contacted our nephew
Kevin regarding our planned meeting in Stockholm in Sweden at the end of our
journey.
During our two hour tour we had an opportunity to go to a
souvenir shop…surprise surprise…. And we purchased a small stone with a mermaid,
very tiny, for our cabinet at home.
Today was a special day for the Danish people, a new minister is being
appointed and it is also the Prince’s birthday so flags are flying and the
royal yacht is in port.
On the tour as we passed the rows of small homes built for
the sailors and their families we were told that when the sailors were gone for
months at a time, it was very common for the wives to open their windows
indicating that they were alone and would like company. We all got a good laugh!
Shirley’s camera memory is full so she is busy deleting
photos to make room for more in the coming days. We were able to purchase a USB Stick (shaped
like our ship) but I can’t seem to connect her IPhone to my laptop. So, she has to delete, delete, delete. We’re all doing that actually but I do have
an advantage in that I can download to my computer.
Tonight was another casual dinner. They were showing the movie “Star Wars the
Last Jedi” in the big theater today for those that did not go ashore. After dinner we went to the main theater and
were entertained by Ronald Moray, a Dutch master of Magic and Comedy. He was truly amazing as he did the entire
show in both Dutch and English. His
best two tricks were taking rings from three people in the audience and looping
them together. Then he had a small table
that took off like an airplane as it moved around the stage with no wires.
My steps today 9,706, 4.18 miles. That included many steps and several trips
off of the ship for the internet.
Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 Warnemunde, Germany Weather Sunshine but
cold
Up about 7 am, went up to the Lido and watched as we cruised
into the port; a beautiful town that we plan to walk through today. We’ll be here until 11 pm as nearly half of
the passengers are heading out on buses for the nearly thirteen hour drive to
Berlin. Most of the time will be driving
to and from the city.
We had breakfast with the girls at 9 am and then Jim, Mary
and I went for a two mile walk along the canal in the village and on through
the town. Along the canal there is a “love
lock” chain designed for them so that they would not attach them the rails on
the bridge. We ended up walking into
town after we reach the beach and visited a Lutheran Church. It’s a beautiful town and there were many
flowers planted along the canal. 
Back to the ship for lunch, we each went our own way
afterwards and during that time, Mary went out to an area that was open air for
better photos and fell coming back in.
She hurt her ribs, left shoulder and hip but appears to be sore muscles
more than anything broken. But, she will
be down for several days.
After making sure that Mary was resting comfortably in the
cabin, we took Shirley and walked with her to the train station which included
steps down and up to go under the railroad tracks, then over to the canal to
admire the locks of love again. She
enjoyed her little adventure and the exercise was good in the open air. We talked with Kevin about our visit with
them in Sweden and he and Melissa are going to take the train to the ship and
meet us outside at 9 am for breakfast in the town where we will dock.
Dinner tonight was smaller and we only had six at the
table. Mary did come for dinner but was
really feeling the pain big time.
Afterwards we walked back outside to the town for Wi-Fi so that we could
answer the message from Jim’s pharmacy about a prescription.
Our movie today was “Draft Day” with Kevin Cosner. Received a text from Paula; her neighbors
across the hall are moving to the new Del Webb development. Will be interesting to see what it sells
for.
13,740 steps today!
5.89 miles.
The Flipino crew had a show at 11 pm but we didn’t stay up
for it. There was also a
Rostock-Warnemunde Brass Band that played around the pool tonight along with
German food on the Lido Deck. We opted
to eat our regular dinner.
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