BACK ON THE AMSTERDAM

Hello everyone...
Well I'm offically back on the beautiful M.S. Amsterdam for 8 more months of crusing. This contract we are traveling to Alaska for 7 day cruises and then at the end of September we begin our Grand Voyage...which is a 67 day cruise to The South Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii. We will then finish doing a holiday cruise through the Panama Canal and end in Florida on January 6th.

So far this new cast is amazing and I cannot wait to spend the next 7 months with them. We went through our turnover and made it out pretty smoothly. Alaska is acting out of normal this year so far in that we have had sun almost every day for the past 3 and a half weeks. Last year it rained all the time. We are keeping our fingers crossed. Alaska is nice due to it being a U.S. port, having Walmart and Costco as our service and the U.S Postal service being in every port.

As for our shows they stay exactly the same as last contract...only we dance almost every single day whereas on the last contract we did a show every 5-6 days. It's not to bad though and makes the time go by pretty quickly. 3 days ago I finally was able to pay off my 2 credit cards and that is a relief. I can actually begin to save some money now and that is sooooooooooooooooo amazing. Saving money on this contract is easier then I expected. I ws able to go into Walmart the other day and not purchase one thing....Woooo Wooooo....Thats a first!!!! What else is going on you ask? Well I am still reading alot and having my new Amazon Kindle 2 from Amazon.com has helped with that. Basically the only thing I'm spending $$$ on right now is E-books. I know, I'm a nerd. Some of you know I purched a math text book to actually work on re-teaching myself math while on board. I have not really started that yet but have messed with the first chapter. We shall see what happens with that. Besides that not to much is new. I have posted some pictures on my Facebook account and below is the link. You do not need a Facebook account to access this. Let me know what you think. I miss you all and hope everything is going well back home. Write to me because I miss all of you. Cheers.


Danny