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I'm all caught up, and enjoying your photos and descriptions! Sorry Wade had a tough time with his blood sugar on the trip over. Those long flights are bad enough without an added health issue. Wonderful tour of Copenhagen. Such a beautiful city! Kind of a shame you happened to be there on a holiday and had such crowds everywhere, but it still looks like you got a great overview of the sights, including Tivoli. And now you're on board! That little video really captures how cold and windy it was on deck! Not quite the same as being in the Caribbean! The ship looks great, though, and it sounds like you're in for a great cruise.
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Your photos of Copenhagen looked vaguely familiar (snicker, snicker)... glad your transfer went well and easily. I noticed that the last night our our cruise - they were selling Norway Inaugural stuff, and that it was available for the Baltic cruise that left right after ours... maybe Disney underestimated demand. Sorry to hear about the chargers!!
Your day at sea looked very familiar to ours - except we had ZERO sun (although we had kids in the pools every single day).
It was a great day---until the unfortunate discovery.
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OH NO! That's awful about the battery charger!! Even though I keep both mine (the Sony and the Nikon) in my camera bag, I just went to noted them separately on my packing list! Hope you don't run out of juice for the camera before the end!
Looks like the folks in the pool were sticking to the hot tubs. Still, you have to get out of the water at some point! BRRRRR!
Glad you have your chargers quite secure. Most were indeed in the hot tub, but still...
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I have been on deck with that same feeling Pris! Good thing you went in!! what a fun day at sea!! I again love the animal!! I hope your camera holds out. Your pictures are great!!
Thanks. I do love my camera. It works so well for me, the non-photographer.
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That day did not look like one I'd want to spend in the pool. So sorry about your missing chargers.
Definitely not a pool day for me either.
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A nice start to the cruise portion on The Magic, with the exception of the chargers! This brings back some nice memories for me as it's only been a couple of months since my first ever cruise, which was on The Magic. So much of it looks so familiar from your photos! I too had my stateroom on deck 7, but mid-ship. It looked just a bit brisk out on the decks!
I love mid ship, but the ocean views are not located there, only verandahs, I believe.
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Copenhagen looked lovely! Your room number made me think you had the room we booked in October but we're in 7602. Sounds like a nice time so far, except for the chilly and rocky weather.
It was a good first day on board. We just stayed inside, so all was well.
What a great start to your vacation!
Sorry about the charger!
It was a great start, for the most part.
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I'm all caught up, and enjoying your photos and descriptions! Sorry Wade had a tough time with his blood sugar on the trip over. Those long flights are bad enough without an added health issue. Wonderful tour of Copenhagen. Such a beautiful city! Kind of a shame you happened to be there on a holiday and had such crowds everywhere, but it still looks like you got a great overview of the sights, including Tivoli. And now you're on board! That little video really captures how cold and windy it was on deck! Not quite the same as being in the Caribbean! The ship looks great, though, and it sounds like you're in for a great cruise.
I'm so glad you are back with us, Laurie. The first few days were good, even if it was crowded. We were able to get past the jet lag, so we could enjoy the trip.
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Your photos of Copenhagen looked vaguely familiar (snicker, snicker)... glad your transfer went well and easily. I noticed that the last night our our cruise - they were selling Norway Inaugural stuff, and that it was available for the Baltic cruise that left right after ours... maybe Disney underestimated demand. Sorry to hear about the chargers!!
Your day at sea looked very familiar to ours - except we had ZERO sun (although we had kids in the pools every single day).
I saw your pictures on Facebook and thought the same thing. I guess the selling of the apparel on the earlier cruises would help explain the short supply of things. Oh, well, I did get some things, so all is good. Those kids are really stalwart, aren't they? They seem to be impervious to the cold.
It's time to get this next day underway, so off we go! This first part is rather short, but it is a beginning.
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Today we are in Stavanger (sta-von'-ger. with a hard g). It has been a joke on board about how to pronounce the names of these Norwegian cities. In addition to this lovely port, we are being entertained by a beach volleyball tournament in the dock area. There is imported sand with man-made beaches. I'll have to say that I haven't seen any bikinis!
These pictures were all taken from the ship or right beside the ship.
Nice photos of Stavanger as the town looks so picturesque! Still a bit chilly there, by the way you're bundled up!
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Stravanger is a really quaint port. Hard to believe that it is Norway's 3rd largest city (then again - Oslo is smaller than Jacksonville, FL... so maybe its not that hard to believe).
Nice photos of Stavanger as the town looks so picturesque! Still a bit chilly there, by the way you're bundled up!
It was a bit chilly in the mountains, but not too bad in town. The wind was quite strong up in the hills.
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Those are some more great photos of a gorgeous looking port!! Those mountains are incredible!!
The mountains were indeed stunning, and the late spring left us a lot of snow to see.
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Stavanger is a lovely port - your photos bring back some great memories.
It was beautiful.
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Looks like a very picturesque port!
It was indeed.
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Stravanger is a really quaint port. Hard to believe that it is Norway's 3rd largest city (then again - Oslo is smaller than Jacksonville, FL... so maybe its not that hard to believe).
3rd largest? Wow! Norway's cities are small, aren't they?
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Lovely port city! I can't imagine you would be seeing any bikinis for the beach volleyball. Brrr!
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Wade and I had different tours today. I had an early one for the Lysefjord (loo-sah fjord) to Pulpit Rock, while Wade was doing the Viking sailing ship. I had to meet my group at 8:15 while his meet up was at 11:30.
I headed out to board the ship and we all cracked up when we saw the ship's name--Fjordfart! Enough said! It actually means “fjord speed.”
The weather was mid 50's and cloudy. There were even a few sprinkles in the area. Our ship did have an enclosed bottom seating area, with an open top for viewing. The bottom had large glass windows, so it was possible to take pictures there. I stayed inside for quite a while visiting with a nice couple from Orlando. He is retired from Disney accounting.
We passed some oilrigs
and the petroleum museum and learned a lot about the importance of the oil industry in Norway.
We even saw a playground made completely of recycled oil products. Gabriel, our dinner server, told us how the CM's had a ball playing there on their last visit to the port.
The government has even been smart enough to put back a large percentage of the money (no one knows how much it truly is) to have when the oil boom finally dies down. They don’t want to go back to the economy as it was before the boom.
We also saw a lot of salmon farms in the waters. They have to be mobile, so they can be moved because of algae in the water and other issues, such as storms. Salmon is a big industry in Norway and we saw farms on almost all the water tours we took.
We had a great trip, and I did eventually move to the top deck for a number of pictures. It was quite brisk up there when the ship was moving at speed. The captain did slow down to almost a complete stop when we were at popular photo stops. Nicely the weather also began to clear for us as the morning wore on.
I particularly like the lighting in this photo.
And, finally, Pulpit Rock
Can you see the heart in the side of the mountain?
There is an area where they have some goats every year. This year there are 3 and they have named them Huey, Dewey and Louie.
Then we got quite up close and personal with this waterfall. The guide warned us before she headed back inside. He went right under it and then turned the boat all around so everyone got the "pleasure."
After our tour into the fjord, we stopped at a welcome center for Norwegian waffles with sour cream and jam. The sour cream was more like a whipped cream to most of us. Ummm, delicious!
What a nice tour you had this morning and loved the photos! The scenery within the fjords and the mountains are just breathtaking! I took a fjords cruise in New Zealand on Milford Sound on the south island some years ago and was equally amazing as I loved every bit of it!
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what a fun day at sea!! I again love the animal!!
I hope your camera holds out. Your pictures are great!!
So much of it looks so familiar from your photos! 
I too had my stateroom on deck 7, but mid-ship. It looked just a bit brisk out on the decks! 
Those mountains are incredible!!
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