A Day on the Viking Cruise Ship
This is a ship which goes from Turku port to Stockholm, Sweden. Our agenda included a day from Turku to a point between there and Sweden, and then to turn back around and come home. So, we weren't quite sure what to expect...I'm not sure anything could have prepared us for what was to come.
Part 1
As we entered the boat at 8am, a drunk man wearing only a shirt and whitey-tighties was being escorted off the boat. Next we rushed with our hosts Raimo and Helena (who are amazing people) up to another buffet smorgasbord, just another in a long long line of this style of dining. AS you can imagine we were experts in that experience. Then we moved onto to the exploration of the boat, where we saw many slot machines, gaming tables, bars, duty free shopping, saunas and hot tubs. Since the boat is really more lively in the evening we decided to have a seat in a bar area and write postcards and some of our group had some bloody marys. Some of the first real American bar drinks of the trip, they get rave review!
That concludes the morning part of the trip.
The afternoon livened up with some group Karaoke. Lynn has a really great voice and decided to entertain us all with some Norah Jones "don't know why" and Whitney Houston's " I wanna dance with somebody".
This is a ship which goes from Turku port to Stockholm, Sweden. Our agenda included a day from Turku to a point between there and Sweden, and then to turn back around and come home. So, we weren't quite sure what to expect...I'm not sure anything could have prepared us for what was to come.
Part 1
As we entered the boat at 8am, a drunk man wearing only a shirt and whitey-tighties was being escorted off the boat. Next we rushed with our hosts Raimo and Helena (who are amazing people) up to another buffet smorgasbord, just another in a long long line of this style of dining. AS you can imagine we were experts in that experience. Then we moved onto to the exploration of the boat, where we saw many slot machines, gaming tables, bars, duty free shopping, saunas and hot tubs. Since the boat is really more lively in the evening we decided to have a seat in a bar area and write postcards and some of our group had some bloody marys. Some of the first real American bar drinks of the trip, they get rave review!
That concludes the morning part of the trip.
The afternoon livened up with some group Karaoke. Lynn has a really great voice and decided to entertain us all with some Norah Jones "don't know why" and Whitney Houston's " I wanna dance with somebody".
Here is Lynn singing and Raimo dancing, the first Finnish man brave enough to dance on stage with Lynn, way to go Raimo!!
Part 2-The story continues
After some fun karaoking, we then disembarked from boat #1 midway bt Finland and Sweden and hopped right onto the next cruise home. So, as things were looking more lively for the evening trip back, we decided to try another round of karaoke, in another location. This time Lynn got up to sing a classic " I will survive", everyone loves that song, the perfect sing-a-long in the US and Europe alike, right?
NOPE, not our new crowd. Lynn literally SURVIVED the worst karaoke crowd in history, she sang her heart out, did a fabulous job while a room of completely stoic folks stared dead pan at her the ENTIRE song. Oh, well she's a trooper and she had managed to WOW the audience in the first boat. We knew because of their great response and the fanfare we recieved that afternoon as we walked around the boat. Thanks Lynn.
Part 3- Cheetah and the Bandit
Many of our facebook friends have already been introduced to this duo but for those of you who are not, here it goes.
Introducing Cheetah and the Bandit!!!
Part 2-The story continues
After some fun karaoking, we then disembarked from boat #1 midway bt Finland and Sweden and hopped right onto the next cruise home. So, as things were looking more lively for the evening trip back, we decided to try another round of karaoke, in another location. This time Lynn got up to sing a classic " I will survive", everyone loves that song, the perfect sing-a-long in the US and Europe alike, right?
NOPE, not our new crowd. Lynn literally SURVIVED the worst karaoke crowd in history, she sang her heart out, did a fabulous job while a room of completely stoic folks stared dead pan at her the ENTIRE song. Oh, well she's a trooper and she had managed to WOW the audience in the first boat. We knew because of their great response and the fanfare we recieved that afternoon as we walked around the boat. Thanks Lynn.
Part 3- Cheetah and the Bandit
Many of our facebook friends have already been introduced to this duo but for those of you who are not, here it goes.
Introducing Cheetah and the Bandit!!!
Cheetah on the left Bandit on the right. Though Cheetah was a fascinating performer and I could only catch him in a photo from the side, due to his stealth and cat like moves, we were SO much happier to hear bandit sing, because he unlike Cheetah had a really lovely singing voice .
Well, the day ended with a few cover songs from the band, a bit of dancing by our hosts, Raimo and Helena and a drive back home, where we relaxed around the hotel and then crawled into bed, awaiting the next days big adventure. Though, after a day like that we felt...surely, we had seen it all.
Well, the day ended with a few cover songs from the band, a bit of dancing by our hosts, Raimo and Helena and a drive back home, where we relaxed around the hotel and then crawled into bed, awaiting the next days big adventure. Though, after a day like that we felt...surely, we had seen it all.
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