Sneaking out...

Tonight I snuck out of the room and off the boat! My mom was asleep early and when the boat made a port call at Kristiansund for an hour, I snuck out and off. Well, as much as one can sneak off of here, which is impossible since they keep such close tabs on you. It's like having an RFID tag planted in you. I'm thinking the entire cruise industry is a testing ground for the new USDA livetock ID program. Certainly we're often treated like livestock. Mooo. Or maybe that should be Baaaah.

Anyway, so I "snuck" off the ship and wandered the empty streets of Kristiansund which was pretty beautiful in the mist and darkness. I wondered into a local pub, mingled with the locals (ok, really I talked to almost no one and slamed the beer so I wouldn't miss the boat, so to speak), and started my trip back down the hill to the port. It shouldn't be hard to not miss the boat since its the largest "thing" in the city. It towers over the buildings down by the dock. You can look out from about anywhere in any of these ports and there she is, a beomoth (check that spelling Eric) on the skyline. Maybe I drank that beer too fast, but somewhere I took a wrong turn and lost the ship. Ok, no suspense here, I obviously made it back, but those last 20 minutes to get back to the ship sure seemed to go fast!

And I'm so efficient that I multi-tasked this sorte. Just before I left I put laundry in the washer (at Kr. 30 it's half the price of a beer!) and it was just ready for the dryer when I got back. I'm waiting for them to finish drying then it's off to bed. Goodnight!