Monday Memories First trip
Did I ever tell you about OUR FIRST TRIP TOGETHER?
When Mr Lifecruiser and I met each other, I had’nt been out travel much. It had been my highest dream for a very long time in my life. Actually from I was a teenager. For several reasons I never had much chance to do it. So 2003 I decided that I should start to travel - before I met Mr Lifecruiser - luckily enough he turned out to be very fond of travelling too :-)
The very first trip we did together was a 48 hours cruise to Helsinki in Finland in February. I had been there as a child, but it was many years ago and it’s sure different being a grown up. There was a lot of nice things on that cruise ship going on. Several bars, restaurants and dance floors with different kind of music and entertainments. We started with an a la carte dinner that was absolutely delicious. A bit of a gourmet adventure.
I was a little bit nervous though, because they had said on the weather report that the weather should be pretty bad, but I had taken seasickness pills in advance. This is big ships and they don’t roll so easily in the waves, so I was not that worried, but to be sure I didn’t drank so much of the wine to the dinner.
After that we entered the dance floors and danced a lot, as much as we had energy too. It’s so fun to dance and Mr Lifecruiser is a very good dancer, so this sure was heaven. Sure, the dance floor moved a bit since the ship started to roll a bit in the waves, but there was no problem other than that.
There were also a amazing dance show in the middle of the night with different dance styles numbers and fantastic outfits. Really something to enjoy. The dancers were so skilled, they did manage to fend off the ships rolling, which had increased a little by now. After the dance show finished, we danced again, but this time the floor were really moving under our feet. It was like being drunk despite the fact that we hadn’t been drinking. We had to stop dancing, it was impossible and it was late too, so we headed for the cabin.
It had been the most wonderful and romantic evening, so already on the way there we started to kiss and ….. oooops ….*censorship* *lol*
Afterwards we noticed that we both got a little bit nauseous and we looked out the cabin window and saw the rough weather outside, it wasn’t just our cabin that was rocking ;-) It was snowing horisontally and it was VERY hard winds. Even this big ship was now rolling quite heavy in the sea. It turned into a very bad snow storm. I said something about how typical it was, as soon as I go some where…
We tried to ignore that we were nauseous and Mr Lifecruiser even succeeded to fall in sleep. Not I… Oh, my, so sick I felt… And that little cabin bathroom… Not a dream when it comes to being seasick in I can tell you! My god, so seasick have I never been in my whole life! There were I, on our romantic evening, vomiting my guts out and in… Cleaning up between and there were stuff coming out from both ends and it never ended! I didn’t know that you actually can have so much stuff in you!
Normally, women don’t like when men go to sleep right afterwards (and he usually doesn’t :-), but this time I was really really truly grateful that he did. I didn’t want him to be seasick too, how would it be possible to manage with this little bathroom? I didn’t want him to see me in this condition either - after all, we had only known each other for about two months then and this was suppose to be a romantic trip…
When the morning came and we arrived to Helsinki and we were ready to go out seightseeing in the town, I was a wreck. I hadn’t slept anything at all and my legs was shaking, but I had gone there to see Helsinki so I was determent to see it even if I would die on the mission… That’s how stubborn I am. *lol*
And to be honest, I might as well have died there, because every where we went, the streets were blocked with big signs that said: “Danger! Be aware of falling ice from the roofs!” And it was almost impossible to avoid going under roofs with long hanging icicles…
Do I need to tell you, that before we went home with the ship, the staff had to give me some strong seasickness medicin to take? And where? With a voice that practically drip of irony: Yes, it was very romantic to put on the plastic gloves and shuffle up the medicin through the backdoor. There, happy now when you know all the details? *lol*
Did I regret this trip? No, we did have a fantastic romantic and gourmet dinner, a lot of fun dancing etc. I just didn’t get to keep the dinner ;-)
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