Day 27, AT SEA

Home for 28 days

Last day  of a breathtaking trip of a lifetime for us.  We’ve enjoyed almost every minute of it.  It would be extremely hard to name a favorite place, but St. Petersburg would be one of the top—simply because of its fairy tale way of life in the Czarist times.  Tallinn was like walking into a movie set.  Such medieval buildings….lovely place with really nice people.  Ireland, for its beauty.  Normandy—the heartbreaking history… 

But, with all we’ve seen and done and experienced, we are ready to come home to normal speaking people.  We’ve heard so many different languages, they begin to run together and sound like garbled talk.  Ready for some slow speaking Southerners.  We’ve run into a few Texans and a Georgian….but that’s all.

Today, we packed up everything ready for the flight home tomorrow.  We leave Copenhagen at 10 a.m.,(3 a.m. “home” time)  change planes in Frankfurt, Germany, then the long haul across the “pond” to Chicago.  Then to Little Rock!!

We are scheduled with the first group off the ship at 6:15 (AM—hate that!), then claim our luggage at the airport, get checked in and GO.  

Thanks for reading along with us.  It’s been fun.  Here are some of our favorite pictures that didn’t get posted and we still have a few minutes left on our internet package..

Azores:

 Cobh, Ireland

Normandy, France

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Tried to get Ronnie to get the suit

Hamburg, Germany

Las Vegas in Minatur Wunderlan

New Mexico in Minatur Wunderlan

Copenhagen, Denmark

The Harbor

Windmills--a large source of energy here

 Oslo, Norway

The American Embassy--in every city we visited

Aarhus, Denmark

Berlin, Germany

Tallinn, Estonia

Magical Tallinn

St. Petersburg, Russia

The beautiful Church of the Savior on the Spilled Blood

Peterhof Fountains-Statue of Samson slaying the lion

Peterhof Palace fountains from the garden

More of the Gardens

Our hydrafoil ride across the Gulf of Finland

Bunker in downtown St. Petersburg

 Helsinki, Finland

Greeting you as you come into the city

The Rock Church

Stockholm, Sweden

Ronnie and Anita