Sail away Sail away....

Friday the 19th of September time to set sail!

The night before I sorted all my clothes out into their sections in the living room. Mag did his packing before we left! (Typical last minute man) 

I packed my bag, and then started to sort out the house and the reptiles. Mag packed his bag we loaded up the car and set off on time!! 

We drove down to Harwich, stopping at Morrisons in Harwich to get some extra bits we ran out of time to get. 

We arrived in good time at the check in for the ferry, we checked in and then waited in a queue for about an hour with the other cars to load the ferry. We played games on our tablets and sorted out what we wanted to take on the ferry with us. 

Boarding time arrived and due to the cabin class we are in, we got preferred parking. We got to park behind this retro looking caravan, I had a quick peek inside through the windows and it looked pretty barren inside!! 

We found our cabin, number 1032. It was one of the four which opens right on to the first class lounge! We felt very lucky indeed!! 

The cabin was very nice. At first we were a little disappointed that there was no fridge with free drinks inside that was until the server advised us that in the lounge there is 24 hour free food and drinks!!!! We of course had to check this out, so within the first 10 minutes of being checked in and before the ship had even left the port we were enjoying the delights of free booze! I had champagne and mag tired to make himself a bloody mary, when pouring in the vodka he did not see that there was a no jigger or limiter so it just kept pouring and pouring. Needless to say it was more vodka than tomato juice! 

He ended up leaving the bloody mary and having a tonic water instead!!! We chilled in the lounge for a bit ( I wish I got more photos of it) then decided that we would go and chill in the cabin. Mag started to watch rubbish TV and I think a bit of a film whilst I sort of snoozed and watched some videos on youtube. We had free wifi! It was great until we go out into the middle of nowhere! 

At about 7:30 UK time and 8:30 on board the ship (it runs to Danish time) we went for our buffet dinner. 

We where seated right next to the window. Love to sit by the window and watch the world go by, but since it was pretty dark and foggy (they kept using the fog horns) I didn't get to see much at all :( Mag said I could go up first and get some food whilst he stayed at the table. Just my luck that I went up just as a massive bunch of rather rude and loud school children (i think they were Danish) all went up as well. So I was stuck in a queue for about 10 minutes longer than normal. Apparently mag was looking so glum on his own at the table, the people next to us started to talk to him and tell him its not the end of the world etc... oh dear

I was rather disappointed with the selection, of course there was seafood there was so much seafood I bet if you stacked it, it could reach the moon. But I don't like seafood so that option was out..... So I went to the hot section to see what they had. This time they had ribs which I passed on, some sort of German sausage which I passed on. Chips OK we were doing OK with the chips. Got a little portion of those, looked to see what else there was ooo Fresh roast turkey OK il have some of that too, oh and maybe some of the ham. Lovely. Topped it off with some nice gravy. I headed back to see glum mag and show off what I had found. It was now his turn to go do the hunter gathering. He was lucky and missed the mass of children. Instead we had to put up with listening to this drunk woman who we think was from Essex, she kept shouting that shes an Essex girl and proud of it. She must have been in her 50's or something. Not a good look. 

I went up for seconds, it was a buffet after all. Didn't get any more ham as it was far to salty. Terrible. Just stuck with chips, turkey and even more gravy. I'm a simple soul really! It was lush. Filled me right up. In fact I couldn't finish it. Mag had the rest of the chips and mopped up all the gravy too. We shared a pudding too, just went half and half. Had some sort of moose thing, was a bit like Angel Delight but not quite....random. 

By this point we were both shattered and decided to call it a night, so we headed back to the room. It had been a long few days what with mags car accident and me working. We both agreed it was time for bed. We looked at the clock and it was 9.15....we really do know how to live a rock and roll life!!! 

Having twin beds in the cabin was nice, as I had the air vent right above me, so I was nice and cool all evening!! Plus I was right next to the wall, so no chance of me rolling over and face planting the floor. (its happened before) I can say I had one of the worst nights sleep for a long time. My UP 24 said I only got 4 hours of sleep, which to me felt about right. I know at one point, whilst Sir Snores a lot next to was in the land of ZZZZZZ I was putting a new screen protector on my phone... I played games on my tablet for a while too and read some news articles. in the voice of comic book guy "Worst nights sleep Ever" 

Morning came around, mag got up and decided to have a shower first. Let me snooze in a little more. We got ready and headed to breakfast. Since we were in special cabins we got to sit in a roped off area. Bit like being a VIP along with 50 or so other people at once. I knew what was coming up next 

Waiter - "Would you like bacon and eggs?"

Me - "Yes please but no eggs"

Waiter - Confused look on their face, "err OK no eggs just bacon?"

Me - "Yes that's correct"

Stupid conversation over, mag and I got our tea and coffee and settled in. The bacon I have to say is fantastic oh just so good. Mag once again was not impressed with the lettuce with his breakfast. He clearly stated that it is not a breakfast food and should not be aloud. I just looked at him and ate mine... Pretty sure you can work out which one was mine from the photos!

After breakfast we headed to the on board shop to have a quick look around. You have to really its like the law!! 

I didn't see to much I wanted to buy, the perfume I was looking for was not for sale, but I did get another one instead along with some hair oil and a almond and salted caramel toblerone. It sounded different. Yet to taste it. 

Also got a little (we think) foam banana sweet to try too. All in all that came to about £25, which is not too bad. 

For the rest of the morning journey I was really tired and just curled up in a ball on my bed and tried to snooze. Failed massively though. 

I will leave you with some photos of the sunset and sunrise on the ship. I will finish writing up the rest of the journey tomorrow as its 23:37 here now.....and im tired. 

TTFN