Wednesday 7th
May Olden Week 3 of 13 and 21 days of 91!!!!
We arrived into the
port of Olden at 09.00am, beautiful quaint town!
3378 Just parking up! All the tour buses sitting ready to pounce on
the tourists coming off the ship!!
The
town is in the distance maybe about half a mile away from the port.
This is what Amy did
last night at kid’s club but she was too tired to have a photograph last
night! They decorated a pillow case and
coloured some teddies. They watched
Madagascar but Amy is a tired out pumpkin today!
W is for Walnut, Amy
thinks the walnut is shaped like a ‘W’, porridge and pancakes with walnuts for
breakfast today with beautiful scenery surrounding us again!
That
is us off the ship now, we need to be back by 5.30pm!
So the plans were to
go and see a Glazier today but the public transport doesn’t start until 1st
June and the tourist companies are charging extortionate prices about £95 for
the 3 of us for a 3 hour tour but that is only a half hour drive there, 2 free hours
at the glazier and then a half hour drive back!
So we decide not to go and see the glazier as we are going to Alaska
soon!! So we have a wander into the
town.
3385 Wasn’t so bad Amy laughing at the funny
signs but this really tickled Colin and he chuckled for ages and then he
noticed that they were selling toilets upstairs so that set him off laughing
again!!! Amy and I weren’t really
impressed!!
What
a quaint little cottage!
Here
is a truck that reminds Colin of the programme Ice Truckers! Think they would need those big trucks up in
this neck of the woods in the winter!!
Here is the main part
of town so we thought we would have a look in the shops, well just wait……
Colin
thought this was a throwback to the 70’s with all the trousers in piles but the
prices were ridiculous!! As Colin is
saying Holy Moly or What?!?!?
The
next shop was an outdoor shop and we got Amy a bargain of a fleece as worn in
the photo by Miss Amy Anderson for £10, absolute bargain J
Colin fancied walking
to the lake and waterfall that wasn’t too far away but Amy wasn’t keen with
being tired after her late night last night at Movie Pyjama party so the
compromise was that we headed back to the ship had lunch and then Amy went to
kid’s club and Colin and I went out for a walk!
Here
is Viking Amy oh I am sure we have met her before but not in this country! Her outfit is certainly different this photo
but still as cute! Viking Amy with her
troll friends xxx
Rogie
our room attendant has wrapped up Jemima and Milly again, cute!
Amy
is chilling on the bed wondering what she will be doing at kid’s club this
afternoon with her daily planner that is left on the bed each night at turn
down service
Here
is the start of Colin and I’s walk to the waterfall and lake!
Olden
Old Church built in 1759, we are going the right way it is on the map as a
landmark!
Olden
New Church built in 1934 is the next landmark marked on the map, certainly
heading the right way!
Another
tourist money making scheme train going by!
We
are walking on the main road but we can see the river alongside the road
Next
landmark tick, we stopped and went into the church it had a massive organ and
was bigger than I thought inside
We
went past a farm next and the next thing should be the waterfall!
Sneaky
path to see the waterfall from another angle
3427 So I want a photo of this little hut but my
partner in crime has gone off somewhere so I end up doing a selfie!!
Oh
yeah there he is on a different bridge!!
Beautiful
wood anemones, reminding us of our river bank in Sulby
Now
I have found you in the wilderness, what view are you getting of the waterfall!
Oh yeah that is
pretty and here is Mrs Angela showing her new purchase too my wind proof
jacket, I absolutely love it and it was another bargain!!
So
Australia have loads of public barbeque facilities which are used regularly but
I am just not sure how often this barbeque would be used!
Hurray we have made
it to the lake!!!!
Having
a well-earned rest checking the map before we head back to the ship!
Another set up shot of the two ugly mugs J
So
Colin decides we should walk back along the river path
Back to the waterfall
Quick
selfie beside the waterfall
The
river path looks interesting with bridges along the way!
Colin
peering in the water pump station
So
peaceful all you can hear is the river running by
Maybe you shouldn’t
have had 2 cups of water with your lunch Mr A or is it the sound of the river
running by!! Ha ha I did get dared to put this in the blog hee hee!!!
Yet another bridge!
Through
the forest bit now, what a trek you are taking me on Colly!
Ewh!!!! Slug!!!!!!
Bit of a tree in the
way there Mr A!!
Bit
precarious around here, Colly choosing his steps carefully!
Really
Colly is this on your map jumping across a small waterfall???
Enjoying
the beautiful scenery but then…….
The
trolls got us and made us do silly faces ha ha!!!
Now that is a serious
wood pile!!
Now back on the ship
after our 2 & 1\2 hour walk, picked up Amy she’s had a brill time again and
now relaxing listening to the Caribbean band in the background with a nice cold
one! We sat and chatted to two of our
Aussie friends from Perth we made yesterday, they are lovely.
So at kid’s club the
teachers always tell us something funny that has happened so today’s one was
they made ice cream and then they handed out a recipe to the children and said
you can take this home with you. You can now imagine what Amy’s reply was, yes
you are absolutely right ‘But I don’t have a home’ luckily they all know that
we are travelling round the world and emigrating to Australia or else that
would have been social services coming to our cabin door ha ha!!!
Leaving Olden behind
Having
a cheeky cocktail at the Outside Pool Bar as we watch the scenery go by, more
beautiful views J
Daddy
and Amy
The
tunnels in the rocks, there are loads of them on this stretch of road we are passing!
Looking
forward of the ship enjoying the beautiful scenery whilst enjoying our drink!
The
girls went to the toilet and we thought we would sneak up on Daddy as he was
taking photos of the views going by but he tricked us back by taking our
picture ha ha!
Behind
us!
In
front of us!
Enjoying
the views at the window on Deck 9 beside the outdoor pool
Trying to put Colin
off taking photos by putting my drink in the shot and Amy sticking her thumb
up!!!
Absolutely
stunning waterfall going by as we are having tea
Amy’s
school work for today the daily trivia quiz and Sudoku. The daily quiz has been good as yesterday it
was unscramble city names today was what city has the street names which Amy
knew a few as we have either been or going to!
Our
octopus towel design by Rogie
The end of the day
watching the ‘Seasons’ show that was an aerial show for winter with a man and
lady dressed white for snow on a circle aerial thing whilst doing some dance
moves the singer was in a beautiful fur looking white long coat. Then spring was a single guy doing dance
moves in the air with a big anchor with the singer in an outfit with pansies
on. Summer was blue outfits with white
fluffy clouds in the photo and dancers on the dance floor. Autumn was aerial dancers on like bungee
cords bouncing up and down doing twirls and elegant moves. I can’t describe it as good as it was,
amazing to think we are on a cruise ship and we are watching dancers performing
suspended in the air!!
We met Alison and
Bill (our reciprocal agreement photo taking lovely couple from Geiranger) on
our way to our room after the show. Oh
my gosh they are amazing as they get a free gift of a photograph each cruise
they go on because they have been on so many cruises and they now choose
someone they meet to give the free photo to as they have loads of photos at
home and guess what we have been the lucky chosen people on this cruise J That is really spooky as I had said to Colin
when we were out for our walk today I would just like one photo please from the
ship. At every opportunity Royal
Caribbean photograph you and then charge you $22 a photo or have photo packages
to get you to buy more and more from them but with our budget and 2 more
cruises to go on we just couldn’t justify buying loads of photos. I absolutely love my photograph I have got
and it means so much more now as it was a gift from two lovely, lovely people
thank you Alison and Bill xx The spooky
bit is that Alison and Bill only live 10 minutes away from where we will be
living in Florida, small world.
A photo of our photo
present, looks better in real life!
Thanks again xx
Tomorrow is Bergen
9am-4.30pm
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