Departure Day – Travel to Dover, England
The kids and Sandy had six weeks off from school, so I decided to take some extra vacation time to spend it with them. We started our long vacation with a Baltic cruise with our good friends the McDonalds. Brian and Megan have two daughters: Marion (4) and Betty (1). This family has been in Switzerland for two years and they return back to the US in August, so this was our last hoorah together. We signed up for this cruise about a year ago, so it has been a long wait. We flew from Zurich to London and then a car service took us to the port in Dover. The kids enjoyed sitting together in the same row on the plane and then again in the same bench seat in the car. The first day on the cruise was uneventful: we got unpacked, went through the standard emergency drill (which we found has been shortened significantly as we now just need to know where the muster station is) and got the kids signed up for the kids program. We left port somewhere around 5PM and were anxious to hit the casino, but we were pretty beat from the travel, so we ate dinner and then hit the sack early.
