Newcastle and the Cruise

First of all I would like to apologize for how long this took us to update our blog. We will be writing a series of blogs to cut down on the length of what it would be if we wrote about all of spring break in one blog.
On Thursday night we stayed in Newcastle on someones couch. His name was Derek and he was an amazing host. We arrived around 8:30pm and he met us at the train station. We stopped by a pool hall in the City Center and had a few drinks and played a couple of games of pool. It was fun because he had some different rules. When you scratch the your opponent gets two shots no matter whether you make one on the first shot or not. Also if you completely miss your balls you get three free shots. It was a lot of fun seeing a local pub that Kels and I would never of thought to go into. We got back to Derek's around 11:00 and then we stayed up and just talked for awhile.
The next morning we went into Newcastle City Center and just walked around. It was a very interesting city. I didn't reailze how big of a ctiy it was. After walking around for awhile we went to a free art museum that had contemporary art. You want to talk about some weird art. They had movies of people smoking for 8 minutes in a countinuous loop. Kels enjoyed it but I just thought it was a little boring. It was free so who cares.
We went back to Derek's to collect our stuff then headed out to the cruise ship. That was an interesting walk. We had to take a train to the small city that the cruise set off from and when we got there we followed the signs for the Ferry. Apparently it was the Passenger Ferry that got them across the river. We got there and then asked how to get to the Cruise ship and they said it was a little ways away. So we started to hoof it. By this time we only had about 30 minutes to get onto the ship before they stop checking people in. Pretty much we ran the whole way there. Finally when we got to the main enterance we saw all the poepl just leisurly walking up to the building where you check in. After all the running and panixing we found out that there wasn't any reason to be in a rush. There were about 200 people still in line to check in and the boat wasn't going to leave without all of them.
When we made it onto the ship we went down to our room and just rested for a little while. We headed up to the main deck to find where I could find a beer. We got there and the beer was 5.50 Euro, which is about $8. Kind of rediculous but when are we ever going to take a cruise to amsterdam again. So kels and I had a few drinks and watched a dancing show. After that was done we went to a more quit bar and sat and listened to a live band. Actually it was just one guy with an interesting accent trying to sing all of these american covers. It was a lot of fun and we were finally comfortable and on our way to Amsterdam.
We docked around 9:00am on Saturday morning. That was also interesting because we didn't realize we needed to pay for a bus into Amsterdam. We should have done a little more research but that wouldn't have been as much fun. We went up to the guy selling tickets asked how much it was and he said 16 pounds for both of us. I reached into my pockets and realized I didn't have any money. So we went off to find an ATM. Nothing in the docking station and they told us there wasn't one anywhere. So now we were trapped. No way to get back into the ship and no way to get into Amsterdam. I didn't know what happened to all of my money. I just figured I got pick pocketed but Kels will tell you more about that in this video.....


So that was our Crusie and now we are in Amsterdam......