Well as you can imagine we made it to Amsterdam. Right now I am creating this blog on the train to Munich. It’s about 10:26pm and we arrive at 7:30am so I’ll be heading off to bed soon, but not before a Dutch treat! Of course I had to hit up the grocery store and load up on sweets…I couldn’t leave the Netherlands without them.
Unfortunately we have no WIFI on the train and haven’t had it in a few days so you’ll get this post when I’m finally able to get online. Hopefully that will be soon considering we don’t have a phone so no one can contact us except through email.
Ok well I’ll start at the beginning. Our last performance in Edinburgh actually went really well. We had a decent size audience and it felt good to have good applause and finish the show on a high note. On a not so good note, the girl that was supposed to be filming the show forgot something and left so we now have no film. Boooooo. Oh well what can you do? Another show of course! As of right now that’s not in the works. After the show we all headed out to have a company dinner and then had to go back to the theater to remove our set. We finished up everything and got to bed sometime after 3am. Luckily we didn’t have to catch our train until 1pm the next day so it worked out ok.
On Tuesday we took all our belongings, boarded the train, and headed to Newcastle. Once we got to Newcastle we caught a bus from the train station to the dock and jumped aboard our ferry/cruise boat…it’s technically considered a “mini cruise”. Ahhh our mini cruise, well let’s just say…they got us pretty good. I had prepaid for breakfast the next morning but hadn’t planned anything for dinner. The lady at the check-in counter noticed this and decided to talk us into paying for the buffet dinner because it would be cheaper to pay in advance. We decided what the heck it’s our honeymoon and it’s a buffet … how can you go wrong with a buffet? Oh you can go very wrong and we did. The first major complaint was that it cost us ₤19.99 pounds each….this is close to $34.00 per person….yes…per person, but whatever it’s our honeymoon and we’ll pig out. Our second problem was the beverage selection. No beverage came with the buffet. That’s right $34.00 doesn’t get you a drink also. Then when we asked for tap water the waitress flat out said “I will not serve you tap water”, so we then said we don’t need anything to drink. I just couldn’t handle paying another € 4 for a bottle of “still” water. I mean really how ridiculous can you get?
After the waitress then looked at us like she was disgusted with us and continued to do so the rest of the night we then headed to the buffet to be yet again disappointed. The food was room temperature at best or served on ice…boiled crawfish…crab legs…neither of those were seasoned. Oh how we miss American food. We ended up just loading up on the kids buffet and sweets and quenched our thirst with watermelon. Oh those ignorant Americans. The Princess of Norway cruise staff/cooks should take lessons from the Vegas Buffets….now that’s how you eat.
After dinner we hung out around the ship. We went out on the front of the boat, looking at stars, freezing our butts off, and overall just having a good time. Jeremy’s even pretty sure he saw the space station. Once we were sufficiently frozen we headed back inside and caught a cruise ship “entertainment” show….yeah.
Bed time came after that. Sleeping on a cruise ship was a little difficult for me. Jeremy of course was knocked out. I found myself needing to look out the window a lot, even though I couldn’t see anything.
Morning quickly came and brought along with it yet another venture to the buffet. This one turned out slightly better than the one before, but not by much. It only worked out better for me because they had pastries…and they were delicious. Plus they also had a fountain for orange juice, apple juice, grapefruit juice, and get this…water. What really rattles our nerves is that this “machine” is built into the counter top, but they just had it covered up for the dinner buffet. 
Well I think I’ll end this blog with that. We’ll continue with our journey through Amsterdam next.
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