Mothers Day

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
We love you both and want to thank you for being the best moms and raising us they way you did. We hope you guys both have a great day. Thanks again for everything you both did for our wedding, it wouldn't have been as perfect as it was with out you guys. Love your son and daughter

Day 6

Hello Everyone and greetings from Tallinn Estonia.
Today we awoke early for breakfast. After breakfast we sat out on the balcony and watched us sail in to port. It was a bit breezier and cooler this morning but luckily it warmed up nicely during the afternoon. After we docked we met up with our tour guide and boarded a bus headed into the city. Tallin is kinda several different cities in one. They have what they call Upper Town which is where the nobility used to live with large castle towers and walls made of lime stone. Then there is Lower Town where the peasents and the guildsmen lived with smaller towers and walls surrounding it. Outside of that you get to the newer more modern city which we didn't tour. Anyways our tour wound its way up to Upper Town and stopped there. We then got off the bus and walked to the parliment house which incorperated two of the old castle towers into a newer building. Across the street from that was a Russian Orthodox church all done up with the onion spires on top. It was neat but not as colorful as the ones in Russia. Also I forgot to mention that all the streets were paved with cobblestone they were a little rough but they went nicely with the castles and old churches. After we left the church we walked through an opening in the wall to lower town. The wall was huge, I got a couple of pictures with Kirah in front of it. Then we moved on to the town square and the meeting hall which was another midevil building with a town square surrounding it. It had a large spire put on it later in its life dedicated to an old watchmen. Made of the melted down coins from the local peasents. Then we walked to another much smaller church. It was the first lime stone building in the city and had been burnt down twice then the russians put a roof on it and used it as a garage for there cars. The floor of this church was made of headstones and when the russians started using it for there cars the estonians secretly took the floors out. Today they are displayed on the outside of the building. Then we walked around alot of the shops and had to wait cause all the old ladies had to go to the bathroom (We had only been on the tour a couple of hours). So after they went to the bathroom we walked down to the midevil torcher museum. We were going to go in after the tour but we didn't have any local currency so we just got a flier instead. After that we followed the group for a while longer then got bored cause we were having a hard time hearing the tour guide so we went shopping (Kirah's favorite part). At the store the ship recomended they didn't have many souviners mostly just antiques. So we ventured off on our own. After searching a couple of stores we ended up with a nesting doll ( the ones that break apart and hold more dolls inside), and a painting of tallin from the sea with wooden sailing ships. Anyway I think that is about all and kirah is getting hungry. She is standing over my shoulder like a famished woman just waiting for me to feed her. so have a wonderful day and we will see you soon enough

Day 5

Greeting from the sea.......
Hey everyone, we are just enjoying another beautiful day at sea. Its around 70 degrees and I'm loving every minute of it. Not much to tell you about today. We woke up later than usual, becaue I went down and did our laundry last night at midnight (the only time I could get all three machines at once) so we didn't get to sleep tell late. After waking up we went and had a late lunch, while eating lunch we listened to a trivia game and was glad we didn't particapate cause we only knew a few answers. We then went and played a few games of BINGO. We didn't win :( but it was fun and something to do. I would have to say that this cruise is alot different then the cruises I have been on, we are probably one of the three or four young couples. It is a older cruise, so there isn't alot going on besides bingo and reading. I believe there is a juggling show tonight we are going to try and go to. We may just hang out in the room and watch movies! Mavis did Rover properly supervise the roof construction?!?!?! I guess we might have to give lacy a bath when we get home so lacy can be the boss again. (Apparently rover thinks he owns her at this point!!) :) I hope everything else is going great at home. Jer forgot to tell you guys something last night: I forgot to tell you about the major celebrations that were going on in Berlin. We didn't know it but on the eighth of may the Nazis surrendered to the russians and Germany was holding celebrations all over. Also the Jews were holding major celebration for the creation of Isreal. Anyway I just thought that was a juicy tid bit I left out.

Day 4

Hello everybody and greetings from Germany,
The first thing I have to say is wow! I cant believe how nice Germany is. But anyway let me get started on our day. We had to wake up early again, but dont worry tommorrow we will make up for it out at sea. Then we went out and got a quick breakfast at the buffet. After that we mustered for our trip and then were shuffled out on to a private train. From there we took a two and a half hour train ride through the country to get from Warnemunde to Berlin. The ride was wonderfull all of the trees were in bloom and the flowers were out. Plus it is neat the rows of canola (What they make the cooking oil out of) look like a carpet of yellow. Also I forgot to mention the weather has been wonderful the whole time so far, hopefully it keeps up. When we got to the train station they shuffled us out to busses and we started the tour. First stop is the Berlin Wall. I guess at one point they tried to paint murals on it and called it the west side gallery I believe, but between the poor condition of the concrete and the graffiti it is mostly gone now. Then we boarded the bus and moved on to check point charlie. This was the only point which you could cross the wall between US held West Berlin and USSR held East Berlin. Then we went past the Reichstag and transferd from the busses to a cruise boat. The boat took us up the river and showed variouse new and old buildings. Also there were points were they had not repaired walls and such clear from WWII. It was amazing how many bullet holes were in them, they looked like swiss cheese. Then we transfered back to the busses again. After we were all on the bus we went out to eat for lunch. Let me tell you the German food they fed us was excellent and very plentiful. In fact in Kirah's own words "I think this is the best food we have had all cruise" and I would have to agree. After we were all fat and happy we loaded back on the busses and were off again. We stopped at a market and went shopping. Also at this market were the remains of an old church bombed out by the allies in WWII. But after we got a souviner we were off to the Brandenburg Gate. After some pictures there we loaded up for the last time there and headed back to the trains. After our train ride ended our twelve hour day we snuck up and got a little bit of food and wrote this. So dont judge too harsh the spelling or grammer the last two days we have been a little tired while writing. Tommorrow is as I said earlier a sea day so I am not sure what we are doing yet so stay tuned for another rivitin installment of Kirahs World :) P.S. We love and miss you all!!!

Day 3

Greetings everyone from Copenhagen Denmark,

We woke up a little earlier today to watch the ship make landfall. It is the first day that we have awoken early enough to get breakfast ( Hey don't be jealous, you would if you could too). Then we went back to our cabin and watched the ship pull in to port. As they were tying up the ship we went down to the theater to muster up for our tour. They shuttled us out with what seemed like about 400 other people I think we filled up four or five busses. but then we were off. I had to laugh cause what they called recent buildings were all built in the 1800's. But it is a very nice city, a lot cleaner than other european cities I have been too. As the bus got to the older section of the cities the roads got very narrow, winedy and at some points you would have to take turns getting through certian choke points. But we eventually arrived at the little pier. There we boarded a boat that looked a little differnt. It was low to the water and wide across and must have had 250+ seats on it cause we packed three busses worth of people in it. Then we took off going through the city almost like in Venice. Some of the bridges we went under were very tight so we would have to duck or sit down at certian points. We wound around seing were they had converted old military barracks to high dollar cottages or "flats" as they like to call them. There were lots of sail boats including some that were very old. At the end of the little tour they took us to see the statue of the original little mermaid. The writer for the original story came from around these parts so they decided to make this statue and put it in the harbor for him. After that they dropped us off at our busses for a final tour on land. They showed us there amusement park but kirah wouldnt go on the ride that lifts you up about 300 feet and then drops you back to the ground. Oh well can't blame me for trying ;) When we got back to the ship we stopped in to our room to freshen up a bit then headed back out for some shopping. We endded up picking out a hand blown glass viking long boat inside a glass bottle and a replica of the little mermaid as decorations for the house. Tonight we are going to try to see a play on hans christian anderson and after that a comedy show. So I will leave you for now and tommorrow we will be in Germany so stay tuned for the next great chapter.

Day 2

Hi All,

We are now sailing in the North Sea. Somewhere between England and Denmark. The weather is nice Kirah is outside on our deck reading a book while I am typing this. I guess today is a lazy day just lounging around and checking things out. we are going to try to catch a show tonight so that should be fun. Anyways to all those poor working souls out there (HA HA). We are thinking of you ;). Hopefully tomorrow we will have great stories to tell about Denmark so ta ta for now

P.S. We probably arent going to call anyone (Its only like 7 dollars a minute) so dont get your feelings hurt.

First vacation blog

Hello all,



Hopefully someone is actually reading this. Me and Kirah survived the trip so far. We had a great time in Atlanta for 10 hours while they attempted to fix the aircraft. But finally they got us a new plane. On the up side we did get business class with big seats and little movie screens for the eight hour trip across the Atlantic. We flew all night and arived in London at 15:45, Then we started our train portion of the trip. It started on the London underground (or the Tube as they call it). We rode that for around an hour till we got to the train station. There we boarded a train for a ride around four hours. It made lots of stops and was really fun to drag those bags around. Kirah is going to have great big muscles when she gets back (LOL). We finally made it to our hotel around 22:00. We ordered a hamburger from roomservice to share and cleaned up then crashed till about 04:30 neither of us could sleep much after that so we kinda tossed and turned till it was time to check out and report to the ship. We then caught a cab which by the way is still weird driving on the wrong side of the road, and made it to the ship. I dont think I have seen the sea since I was in the service. But we then checked in to the boat and boarded. It is a very nice ship and our room is really nice also. It has a little private balcony which since the weather seems to be cooperating we might actually get to use. After a little nap we set out to explore the ship. There is alot to do and they seem to plan lots of shows and activities for us to do. Well I will let you go for know but keep checking back. We are at sea tommorrow but pull in to Copenhagen Denmark the day after. Jeremy