Shove off.

Now that’s a funny phrase.  I know for little boats, it makes sense.  But if you shove off a big gargantuan ship…. well now… THAT is a big shove.

At any rate.  Away we shoved.

So out to sea, leaving the city of Amsterdam.  It started raining as we were crossing part of the country side.  We saw one lone little sheep out in a farmyard.  I opened up the window and hollered its way…. “Get out of the rain, you silly sheep.  You are certainly going to shrink.”    I don’t think it heard me.

There are a lot of people on this boat.  A wide scope of people.  However, most are of the geriatric variety.  Falling asleep on the deck, and such.

Speaking of the deck.  The cruise people…. pipe in calming and relaxing music in all the public areas.   While Mary and I were tooling around, and exploring…. they started playing the theme from “The Titanic.”  Bad choice of songs, by my estimation.

The sea is pretty choppy today, and the ship is really swaying.  Even the veteran cruisers are saying this is unusually bad.  I didn’t think we would be able to feel much, but I am sitting here bouncing right now.

We are out to sea for a couple of days now.  We get into Berlin on Sunday.

I can’t see land anymore…. but I am keeping my eyes wide open for icebergs, I’ll tell you.

Truthfully.  Looking outside,  I can’t see much now… in the dark of night… on a big wide ocean.   But you know.   There is so much to see everywhere, and every how.  If you are really looking.   It doesn’t have to be in a foreign land, or in a far away place.  It could be in the city where you live, or even in your own backyard.  The knack of appreciation is in seeing the beauty…. of the tulips in the Netherlands… or the ones in the front row of your garden.   Or even in the mirror in front of you.

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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” –  Howard Thurman

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