So after a month it’s definitely time for an update. Apologies for my slackness. We’ve been on the ship for 36 days now, but time doesn’t seem to hold much sway here. It’s like a space/time vacuum. A week felt like a month, and now a month feels like a week. I didn’t have a camera for a while, for reasons I’m too embarrassed to own up to. Suffice to say I finally bought the Nikon D90 in San Diego a few days back. I do have some pictures of Miami, and I promise to blog with more regularity now.
So what to start with? I could start with the ship. The Statendam is the oldest ship in the Holland America Line’s fleet. When we boarded, it had just come out of dry-dock, which is the sea word for heavy maintenance. It looked great. Beautiful. He problem was that nothing had been tested in water yet (hence the term “drydock”). We had waterfalls flowing out of the ceiling in the corridors outside our rooms… long story short, most of the crew were wondering how long it would be before the stately Statendam moved onto its life. As a submarine. The good news is that everything seems to have been fixed, and everything is wonderful.
The photos below are from Miami, the day before we boarded the ship. There is a shopping complex called Sawgrass Mills, which is absolutely huge. Not only that, but everything is cheap here… I never realised how expensive Australia was. Food… clothes… everything. Anyhow. Time for some over-saturated pictures :)
