The Century...

Just a heads up – I wrote (or posted, at least) 3 separate posts today, so be sure to read the two that come directly before this one first…

Here are just a few highlights of our trip so far – as I’m sure you’ve all been waiting long enough for these posts, and I’m writing as much as I can in as little time as possible.

I’ll start with my first day…
When I first came aboard the Century, and went down to Andrea’s cabin, it was to discover that her roommate had moved all her things out and over to the room next door, where there was an empty bed – leaving the cabin to ourselves. I couldn’t believe it, now we each have our own bed, at least for this cruise, and I’m loving it. Andrea took me up to deck 7 to watch the sail-away, and it was beautiful. In the very front of the ship, all to ourselves, I would be jealous if I was a regular passenger…

We ate dinner together in the dining hall sailing out, and there, I witnessed something I had never seen before… Windmills. Yes, windmills. I have seen windmills before, but these ones were sticking up from the water in the middle of the ocean! I couldn’t believe it… ocean on all sides, then, uh, random windmills in the middle of nowhere, the mist curling in and out between them. It was amazingly cool, and that’s all I have to say about that.

The next day we ported in Alesund (pronounced Allison-ed… just thought you’d want to know that, Tyler…) Where Andrea and I went off exploring on our own. She took me to places that she went before, and brought me down a ‘secret’ pathway leading down to the sea. The local folklore of the city is based off the misty mountains surrounding it and the forests all around, and centers around trolls. Many of the main tourist spots are named thus – such as the path of the trolls, and also the troll cliffs. There were also trolls in all the gift-shops…