Tuesday, July 7, 2015

At Sea -- May 23, 2015

Saturday, we spent the whole day at sea, so we slept late again.  It was a little too cold for Alice to sunbathe on our balcony, but she did pose for a picture!


Dinner was formal and included a "Baked Alaska Parade" with the waiters each brandishing a decadent desert.  It tasted even better than it looked.


I got a couple of good pictures of the sunset, but...


...Gwen did even better.  She got a picture of the sunset as we went under a bridge.


I thought we were going under the Øresund Bridge (the 4th picture posted on June 16), but then I noticed that it didn't look right, so I did a little research.  I found that the Øresund Bridge, which goes from Copenhagen, Denmark to Malmo, Sweden (the yellow arrow below) isn't tall enough for most cruise ships to go under.  So, it appears that we went under the Storebælt Bridge, which connects the 2 main islands of Denmark (the red arrow below).  Although the yellow route to Copenhagen would be much faster, the size of the ship ("Huger") necessitates the red route.