Christmas market cruise 2023. Day 3. Hamburg

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We woke up quite late again this morning, not to worry as we aren’t wanting to get there really early anyway.

We showered and dressed and got to breakfast for around 9.10.
We all had a light breakfast this morning of poached eggs with the kids having eggs benedict, we weren’t going to rush as my back was killing. Unfortunately before the cruise I started with sciatica (I think due to the coil) and hubby had a slipped disc (which he first did in Florida 2019). His seems to be worse in the evening after walking around all day whereas mine is worse in the morning when I must have slept funny all night. So this morning I wasn’t great. And that made me a little mardy.

We got in the queue for the free shuttle with our select price cruise at around 10.15. It was raining and I was cursing not fetching the brolly that I’d just put back in the cupboard in the cabin as it wasn’t raining then. The kids were happy though as they got a free gingerbread biscuit. Anything food and those two are usually good for a while.

We got into hamburg and I needed the toilet (no surprise there due to my bladder issues) but hubby grumbled as we went into a mall to find one. Right at the top of the mall and chargable but cool toilets. It spun around and cleaned the seat. Something I would have expected in Japan or something. Silly thing to be fascinated about but me and Scarlett thought it was very cool. It was €0.50.

At the top of the mall was a metal tube slide. I didn’t get a photo unfortunately but it was a bit like the helter skelter we did as a kid were you go down in a sack. Trying to get my two into a sack was not very fun and we got some funny looks from the person managing it but they both went down it and said it was great fun.

We walked out and across the road to the market in front of the water. There were a few different stalls, scarfs, wooden spoons and bowls, beers and crepes. Nothing we were too interested in. We went toward the main town square with the proper booths. These were selling similar stuff. The pork looked very nice but we didn’t get a sandwich unfortunately, we also watched the blacksmiths make horseshoes, I would have liked one but I couldn’t think of a good enough reason to buy one other than I enjoyed watching it made. It just looks cool.

The girls found some donuts for 5€. So we ate those but found them weird. The flavour was amazing but the texture was like raw dough so we didn’t like it.

It was very crowded so we walked up to where the red riding hood in the case was. The girls bought a sweety lace 2.50€. We got some flavoured nuts 13.50€ and then chocolate covered strawberries 7€ which were excellent.

I was doubled over by this point and could hardly walk. There wasn’t anything else we wanted to see so when I suggested going back the kids were quite happy to. I hate feeling like there’s more I could do but at the end of the day I’m best off making sure I’m okay rather than worry I’ve missed some Christmas booths.

We got back to the ship and ready for the pool. All four of us went in the hot tub for a little while which was actually really nice on my back then the kids got in the pool while we got dressed.

We got some chips and pizza from the pool side and also an ice cream. While hubby had a few drinks. The kids played for ages, we got out around 4 as they were shutting it for the entertainment at night.

The kids asked to go to the kids club so we got their dinner at the kids buffet around 5.15. They had pasta, burger and some jelly and we dropped them off around 6pm when the club opened. The are very quite into the clubs on this holiday. It does seems to be swings and roundabouts sometimes with the kids clubs. But I’m happy to let them go. It’s their holiday too.

Hubby wanted to go back to Keel and Cow. To say we hated it the first time 13 months ago he loves it their now. I didn’t really want the exact meal again but didn’t want to argue when he had his heart set on it. We got there at 6.30 and tonight the service was quite fast. We are such boring people that we ordered exactly the same as last night but without the starter.
We ordered steak , I had mine with fries instead. Scott ordered the same.

His steak was cooked perfectly again. Mine however was over for the second time and was so very salty at one side. I don’t think they had done something right with it but I just got on with it. Can’t be bothered to moan about that right now as I’m in a lot of pain. Scott had pudding on his own, he had pecan pie again his favourite.

The kids had said we weren’t allowed to pick them up until 8.30 so we went and sat in the club house and watched the band for a while. We went up to the buffet and got a coffee with second puddings. At 8.30pm we collected the kids, got ready for bed but decided to watch a film that was on the tv and then we were all in bed for 11pm.