Living at Sea

Our home for 1/2 a month was the MS Zaandam, a vessel belonging to the Holland America Cruise Line. (How ironic that we started and ended with a big Holland experience?) We were generously given this voyage as a gift from Alicia’s mom for graduating MAS. Literally 2 weeks after finishing up school, we were off on another adventure that took us 1/2 way back to Australia!
Imagine your only view for 10 days being 360 degrees of oceanic horizon, and the occasional flying fish. While hitting up the gym one morning (true AdverBarbie style) we saw from a distance, a pod of 300+ dolphins heading straight for the ship. They swam right up next to us, and it was like out of a dream to see so many blue-gray dolphins leaping from the water. Needless to say, we now have a small idea of what it was like for Mr. Magellan back in the day.

After all that time, we obviously made good friends with all the staff... shoutouts to Ashari aka ‘I’m Sorry’, Nico, and Iman and all of the other Indonesian crew members. lol.