Well, we made it safely on the ship today. We had a very long (9+ hour) flight to Amsterdam last night. We arrived in amsterdam around noon local time and then took a bus to Rotterdam where we boarded the ship.
We are glad to be done with travel and settled in.
Our first stop is tomorrow in Normandy France. We have rented a car and will do a self-tour of the D-Day beaches. I am really looking forward to it.
It wouldn't be a trip without a travel "challenge". This time, the challenge was mine. We boarded the plane in houston and got in our seats. A woman (either Dutch or German- I couldn't tell) sat behind rachael and her son behind me. Her son was probably about 7 years old. After we were going, I felt him pushing on my seat. No big deal, that happens.. Well it happened a couple more times and I looked back to see what was going on.
After a while, it happened again. So, I turned around to ask (nicely) if they realized he was kicking my seat. I turned around and didn't even get a word out of my mouth and she lit into me and asked why I kept looking back. I explained that her son was kicking my seat. She proceeded to (in an increasingly loud voice) tell me that he is just a child and that I shouldn't worry about it. That got me a little cheesed and I asked again if she could please make sure that he didn't kick my seat and she started getting louder and actually said "you are just stupid and shouldn't worry about this-he is just a child"m. At this point she was making a big scene and getting loud - loud enough that others were taking their headphones off to see what was going on. I decided to just drop it and asked if she could please not have him kick my seat.
So very annoying. Later in the evening, she actually had her son sleeping on the floor with his head in the aisle.
Well, that is all for today!!!
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Oh, that mother should be spanked and sent to her room! No wonder we have the wild, unmannered kids in this world. If I were you, Greg, I would have kept giving her wet willies in her ear, and when she objected, I would just say, "What's the big deal? Don't worry about it. I'm just a stupid American."
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