Oslo, Norway

We did it! We stayed up past 10pm last night! After our second nice dinner at the fancy Pinnacle Grill we headed up to the Crow's Nest for dancing - unfortunately for us it was music from the 50's and that's not really our cup of tea but we enjoyed watching everyone else dance. It was especially nice when they did the waltz. I feel my generation has missed something by not learning these dances and then I cringe to think of how young people "dance" at the clubs these days. Moving on...

We stayed up till about midnight or so then went back to our cabin and read for a while on our patio - it was a beautiful night out and the waters had finally calmed down a bit.

We were up and docked in Oslo, Norway this morning by 7am. Dane and I ate a lazy breakfast and even fed some seagulls some bread - they took it right from Dane's hand! I have pics. We got ready for our vintage sailing cruise and headed out by 10am. The cruise was fun. We drank white wine and ate fresh prawns - that wasn't so nice. They were very fishy and we had to pull the heads and legs off (I HATE that) and one of the prawns was pregnant and spilled prawn eggs all over. Gross. We had more bread though so we fed more seagulls. The boat took us around Oslo and we got to look at all sorts of nice houses and stuff. After the cruise we were hungry and there wasn't really any sight seeing we could do with the time we had left in port so we ate lunch on the boat and took bread back to our room to feed the seagulls. We had over 20 birds at one point circling our patio, getting on our railing and grabbing bread from us. It was fun.

We decided to go to the thermal spa to watch us pull out of harbor. That ended up being a fantastic idea. We had the suite to ourselves and sat in the hot tub while we pulled away. When that got boring we sat on the heated ceramic lounges and watched the captain get mad and blow the horn at all the sailboats. Then we read our books for another hour.

Now we are getting ready to go to dinner. Tomorrow we will port at 10am in Arhus, Denmark. We don't have any excursions planned so we will wing it. Should be a fun day at port - we don't have to be back on the boat till 6:30pm.

We hope everyone is doing well. Norway is beautiful but I miss America. I'm tired of cruise boat food. I want McDonald's fries. And a fresh salad. And steamed veggies. I'd do anything for fresh, steamed veggies that aren't bathed in sodium.