Christmas market cruise 2023. Day 5. Rotterdam but didnt get off ship

[vampiress88]

Well we all had a bad night. Unfortunately Georgia takes after me that sometimes things she eats don’t sit right with her.
She woke up at 2.30am and said she felt sick and needed a drink. I didnt think anything of it as she went to the fridge to get water as I was half asleep and unfortunately she was poorly and it was everywhere. I cleaned everything up best I could in the middle of the night and she went back to sleep before getting up again at 3.30 but this time she made it to the bathroom. No fever or anything, we checked all her temperature and did some tests and by the morning she was fine. So something really didn’t sit right as she didn’t over eat and she didn’t have a bug. Unless it was just eating too late but everyone else was ok.

Not sure why the captain announcement at 7.15 was so loud but it really was. Obviously time to get up.
We had planned on going to The Hauge for the Christmas market on the train but after being up most of the night and with my back being so bad we decided not to bother. I was worried that I’d spend all that time getting there and it wouldn’t be a great market anyway.

So we went for breakfast around 9am as usual. We then sat in the club house while no one was around playing cards and found another duck.

We had decided to have a ship day and the girls wanted to go in the pool so around 10.45 there were back in there. It was great as there was hardly any people on board. We had the whole pool to ourselves and the hot tubs mostly too.

We got out around 12ish. We had a buffet lunch. It wasn’t great. I really feel that the buffet has gone downhill. We had little kebab wraps which I didn’t like, some Chinese pork and biryani. The fries were the nicest thing. I wish we’d just gotten pizza from the pool side place.

Shower and hair washed and down to Brodies for the quiz. I absolutely love the music quiz they do. Most times we are really bad at it but we still like it. Lots of people try to help us which can get a tad annoying. We sat in our normal pog and since it was empty we talked to the waiter a bit and got a few drinks orders in. We were there a long time just over three hours. We played cards before the quiz and we at least knew more than half the answers so we were happy with that. Brodies really is our favourite place on this ship.

Tonight’s menu

The kids wanted to go to kids club in the evening so we said that was fine.

We went and got the menu for the main dining room and we couldn’t find anything of interest so surprise surprise Scott asked if we could go back to the Keel and Cow.

Sure. More steak. So we did the usual, go back around 5 to get changed, kids buffet dinner at 5.30 with nothing more interesting than chips and pasta. Although it was nicer than the lunch we had. Then dropping them off at kids club at 6pm. We went straight down for our table.

Same as always. Such boring people but hey ho that’s just how we are. We ordered steak , I had mine with fries instead. Scott ordered the same. His steak was cooked perfectly for the third time. Scott had pudding, he had pecan pie for the third time this week, his favourite. I would have liked a pudding but wasn’t going to pay for one.

Again the kids asked us to wait to pick them up so at 8.30pm we collected the kids, got ready for bed and were in bed super early at 9.15. Everyone was tired after today.

Towel animal

Punk ipa £5.55
Punk ipa £5.55
Mocktail £3.95
Punk ipa £5.55
Punk ipa £5.55
Nuts £1.45
Nuts £1.45
Punk ipa £5.55
Nuts £1.45
Discount -£0.15
Punk ipa £5.55
Nuts £1.45
Nuts £1.45
Discount -£0.63
Main £15.50
Main £15.50
Pudding £3.25
Discount -£2.57
£75.40