Thursday, April 28, 2016

The End

HOME SWEET HOME!!!
My welcoming committee

The Duchess is now retiring!!!

Monday (April 25th)

Going HOME
 Eyes wide shut
 Cheers!
Not liking the altitude info


Sunday (April 24th)

After putting Penny and Paul on the plane, we went back to South Ferriby for one last night

Dinner at the Hope & Anchor (I think they'll miss us haha!)

London (Friday and Saturday)

We picked a GREAT weekend to be in London - the Queen's 90th birthday,  Obama also in town, St. George's Day and the London Marathon!!!  Will admit I was in "if you see something, say something" mode!!







Hop on, hop off

One last time at Burger Shack


A couple old building selfies


Back at Humber Lodge (Tuesday thru Thursday)

Exploring South Ferriby

Afternoon "tea"

But the question is "will they buy Larry's car?!"



When the dresser won't fit down the stairs

 The garden looking it's all time best

Are we sad?  Hmmmm.....

Sunday (Disembarkation Day) - Amsterdam

We got off the ship, checked into our hotel and headed for Dam Street for some breakfast
Gorgeous weather to eat outside!!

Waiting for our bus to Kuekenhof

 Fields of tulips
and other flowers







Keukenhof, a beautiful place (except for the other million people)

Day 7 (Saturday) - Kinderdijk, the Netherlands

The ship took an unexpected tour around Rotterdam while we waited for our dock in Kinderdijk to open up

 Guess who took this photo?!  
Noah's Ark (never got the whole story on that)

Finally arrived, and this was seriously the most miserable weather of the week


 I love windmills but I could not get back to the ship fast enough!


Moses' basket??

Day 6 (Friday) - Cologne

This morning's excursion took us into the Old Town section of Cologne

 St. Martin's Church

Another cathedral


The elves of Cologne

Went back to the ship for lunch and found him in the lobby
(he can sleep ANYWHERE!)

 After lunch, we took a tour of the Lindt factory
Yummy!

Cologne selfie

 Getting ready to go through one of the many locks
SOOO close, I could literally touch the wall out the window of our room
Going WAAAYY down