Our sleep time in the restaurant is much like that on an airplane. Trying to get comfortable while keeping one eye open on the lookout for who knows what. We're in and out of sleep even with little outside disturbance during the night. It's about 4am when a few lights go on and I see some people rustling around at the counter, cleaning and preparing things. They don't say anything to any of us but I feel it's probably best to leave. Standing and l...

Its been six weeks since we left for Copenhagen and now we're back in the USA! Boston to be exact. I ordered a wake up call for 6:30am last night. Add in the extra hour of sleep by setting our clocks back an hour and that made for a restful night. It does for me but Karen is up well before 6am putting together the toiletries, medicine and the last of things that need to be packed. She's anxious to get home. Our four checked luggage bags were set outside o...

Today is our last full day aboard the Rotterdam. We leave tomorrow morning so today we have a few things to clear up as well as pack up all our belongings. We go up to breakfast at 8am and find it relatively calm. I think most people were sleeping in this morning so we had a nice peaceful meal. Two eggs, one sausage, English muffin, prunes, orange juice and coffee for me. Mom had scrambled eggs, ham and half a waffle with blueberries with jasmine tea. At 9:30 we ...

We have an excursion planned for today. Joining us will be the two Traveling Sues and Joni and her husband. All of us are Cruise Critic members with Joni actually making the arrangements for all of us. After breakfast, we make our way forward for disembarkation at 8am. Something happens and we're delayed for about 15 minutes. We exit the gangway and meet Alphonse, holding a sign that says "Joni". That must be us. Within a few minutes all of us are here and A...

Today we are somewhere in between St. Johns and Halifax. It's another sea day which Mom has come to love. She likes getting up when she feels like it, getting a leisurely breakfast and wandering around the ship, finally picking a nesting place to sit and relax or read a book. There's a nice library, computer room and lots of bars on board where you can just relax and do what you want. When blogging, I prefer to go to a public area and people watch whi...