CRUISING ON THE RIVER MELODY and PINK SATURDAY

 

 Beverly, at How Sweet the Sound, is hosting Pink Saturday for the most fun Blog Party of the week.  Christmas is over and now for some snowman sharing.  Thank you Beverly for the fun themes you have shared for some PS holiday fun.

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I am combining some of our cruise pics with Pink Saturday.  I hope you don't mind.  We haven't had any snow to speak of but a couple of years ago two of our grands were here when we had snow and they made their first snowmen.

 

Our granddaughter Ashley looking very proud of her snowwoman.

 

Ashley and Logan with his snowman.  They were very proud of their hard work because as you can see, we didn't have much snow.

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HOME FROM OUR CHRISTMAS RIVER BOAT CRUISE

It is so great to be home safe and sound after crossing the Atlantic Ocean twice. I admit that flying for approx. 10 hours accross the ocean is a bit daunting.  Now I can put our will back in a safe place. LOL. The flights were long and uneventful but the cruise was awesome every minute of every day.  The Rhine River is very large and amazing as we traveled for 10 days to many of the cities in Europe along the Rhine. 

Our beautiful river boat was everything we thought it would be. The Europeans like pink houses too.  Imagine living right on the Rhine river.

From the captain to the entire staff we had the best service possible.  We can't wait to go again.  Maybe next year.  Yes, we are hooked. Smile!!!

 

The cabin's are very nice.  This one is off the net and our cabin did not have these doors.  Picture it with a very big window.  Somewhere we have a pic of ours but this will do for now.  The beds came down over the couches like Murphy beds. We slept great.

Looking at the Rhine River in Amsterdam at night. (our first night)

 

It was cold but we didn't care.

 

The stairs down to our cabin.

 

Coffee, hot chocolate and tea central 24 hurs a day. 

Choices and all delicious.

 

Santa on the wall in coffee central.

 

Yum, these goodies were also available most of the day and evening.

There were many of these decorations throughout the ship.  Beautiful and so festive.

THE FOOD

One of the most enjoyable part of our cruise was the delicious food.  Gourmet all the way and served beautifully.  Presentation is everything!!!  We ate almost all of our meals on the ship.

 

This is the buffet area.  Breakfast and lunch was served here.  In the evening we selected from the menu and the buffet table was where they placed the appetizers of the evening.  This is just a sample of one night at dinner.  Pretty and soooo good.

 

 

Entre'  Chicken cordon bleu w/veggies in a pastry cup and potatoes.

 

Dessert...Each dessert had a little round choclate with a Christmas scene.  Can you see it behind the chocolate cake? 

I didn't include the soup and the sorbet to clear the pallet before the entre'. Oh, and all the wine one can drink as well as coffee or tea.  In short, a 'gourmet delight' every meal.

 

I almost forgot the plate of chocolates served last after each dinner.  I saved this little candy mouse just for you.

 

My sister Jane Anne and her hubs Bill joined us on this cruise.  How special is that?  Pretty darned special.

 

Not a great pic but you can see we enjoyed ourselves soooo much.

This was taken in the lounge.

Next to the last night on our cruise.  (another not so great pic)

CHEERS!!!

IT IS GOOD TO BE HOME

Love,

JEANNE

 

 

 

Comments

[Penny @ The Comforts of Home & Flea Market Makeovers]

Welcome home! What a lovely time you had. Kent and I really enjoyed doing the two river cruises in France a few years ago. It is nice not to have to pack and unpack while traveling. What company did you travel with? We used Uniworld.
Hugs,
Penny

[Jan from The Comfort of a Safe Place]

Welcome Home, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, too! I'm glad you had such a wonderful time.

I haven't been around visiting much lately - busy with things around the house and trying to spend a wee bit less time on the computer, since I closed my shop!!

Jan ♥

[HappierThanAPigInMud]

Looks like you had a beautiful trip Jeanne! Glad it was fun and you'd want to go again! Cute piggy chefs in the buffet area:@) Happy New Year-enjoy!

[Kathryn Ross]

Welcome home, Jeanne! What a wonderful trip - and all your pictures were terrific! Thanks for taking you time sharing all the food shots with us. I was on the scale today and it looks like pictures of food is about it for at least a month! I have royally abused my system for two weeks - don't think I can do another cookie or chocolate something!

Actually, just posted today for the first time since Thanksgiving - what a super busy December. Hoping for a quiet new year and some time to catch-up - in Blogland and in quite a number of round the house things.

Happiest of New Years, my Circle Journal friend!
Joy!
Kathy

[wendy]

I am glad you got home safe and sound!!
WOW...those photos of your cruise are amazing. You looked beautiful in that last photo. REALLY !!!!

[Beverly]

Happy Pink Saturday. I remember these snow "people". They were quite the works of art.

You know I am going to love seeing all of your photos. The two of you traveled in grand style.

[bj]

O, what a beautiful vacation this must have been.
I've only been on 2 ships and both were out of this world.
So glad you had a good time...hope to see more photos. :)
xo

[dana]

First, your snowpeople and grands look great! Thanks for resharing those for us! We had icky weather last week (really messed with rush hour on Thurs.), but the snow is nearly gone now. I got to "run" day before yesterday...first time in a couple of weeks. We still have some icy patches on the sides of our neighborhood streets, but I took it easy and just walked when I saw those. It felt great to be outside again. We are supposed to have a storm roll through on NYEve and NYDay. boo. We need the moisture, but don't want it THEN!! :)

LOVE your photos of your trip! That boat looks like a palace and it seems you all were treated like royalty! What an awesome experience! i hope you DO get to go back next year!

I've been been vegging since Christmas....and it feels great! I received an iPad for Christmas and have been having fun learning all about it. I can't post comments on blogs from it...don't know if I don't have something hooked up right or if it just isn't capable. Will you ask Bill about that? I can type my comment and leave all the info to publish it, but then the "post" or "publish" buttons won't hilight for me to click them. That's my only beef about it right now! Can you believe I haven't left this house (except to run) since Christmas Eve? I can't...but I LOVE it!! However, today, I'm ready to bolt! :) Our son and fam. are coming to my hubby's office for a "visit" then we're going out to lunch. There's a steakhouse near his business that makes awesome burgers and my son and DIL look forward to that post appointment lunch! :) Me, too!

Gotta get busy and prepare for this day. SO happy you guys had such a fine trip...and so happy you made it home safely!!

L, Dana

PS How did CC do?

[Francie T]

Home again, home again, safe and sound ! Knew you would have a great time and looking forward to more pictures and stories.
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[Sunny109]

Thank you for sharing your trip. I have been wondering about the River Cruises. I am amazed, glad you had a great time. Nice to meet you! Sunny

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