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So finaly have I signed the papers to my new apartment in Miami, I have spent the last week looking at at least 20 different, and the last one I looked at was the one I got.

It is a nice 3 room apartment right in South Beach, perfect for parties ang chill out..

I am so happy, Now it only has to be Febuari so I get the keys to the new place.

The view from my balcony



One bedroom....



Another Bedroom...



Living room and Mike :)



Another view from my bed room.....

This morning from my balcony, good to be back from the cold

So 10 days of organized chaos is over. I think I sleept more in the army then I did this last week but it is nice now when everything is finished.

In 3 hours the passangers are again on the ship and everything will be back to normal.

Here you see the ship in the dry dock.



This is in the aft of the ship. This ship is not equiped with propellers and rudders as normal ships. But instead it has Pods. These pods can be turned 360 degrees around making the ship much more manuverble. Right now the propeller blades are of and hanging in chain blocks aft on the pods.



Here you see the bow of the ship and the bow thrusters these are used when the ship will dock by a pier, by running these the ship can move sideways.



And now it is only 2 days then I will leave this ship..

Today is the calm before the storm. What we have been preparing for 3 months is starting tomorrow. The ship will go into Dry Dock in Lisabon. There will be a organaised chaos for 10 days with looong days and lot of work. Have 72 guys arriving today and they will soon come onboard....

So hopefully in 10 days I will still have my jobb, if there is not a major fuck up :......

Later..

After being lost the last 5 months something good has happend. I feel so good right now and I have something to look forward to again.

Yesterday was a late haloween party on the ship.......

I am in south of Spain right now and you might think the weather is warm and nice here but it is NOT. Today the tempature barly went over 13 degrees.

And after reading Ms A blogg that it is 29 degrees and sun in Miami can I only start conting the days until I will be there to.

The last week have I spent my free time of looking at apartments, so I can find a good one to buy now when I get back. And I think I just find the place.

I was looking at this house a while ago but could not move there bacuse of some stupid rule they had, but now I found a way to get past that :)......

28 days and counting

Yesterday when I was in town I just had a feeling that i needed to shop a bit, so I added 2 new jeans, some sweatshirts underwear and a new pair of boots to my bag.

These are the boots i bought.



And it was a good buy, cause when I woke up this morning in Oslo and was going to the airport it looked like this outside the hotel.

Almost made me wish it was X-mas




But now I am down in Barcelona. and it is freezing down here to..

See ya...

My unplaned little vaccation to Sweden has come to an end, I am at the airport now on my way to Oslo and tomorrow I will fly to Barcelona to join the ship again.

It was good to meet my friends and mom and dad, and this trip turned out very very good in one way :)

But now there will be 1 month of crazy work for me.. and then I hope my vaccation for all December goes as planed..

This is a very famous cliff somewhere.
On a good day you can see Africa from here.
Anyone that knows where this is ??

Just another lunch at sea :)

So next week I am going to Sweden for a couple of days, need to fix some things with the bank before I buy my new apartment in Miami.

Wil be nice to meet my parents and friends a bit also, trying to count the days aI have bin in Sweden this year and it can't be more then 20.

The only thing is that I have one sweater in my bag right now. Think I need to go and buy a winter jacket first thing when I get there.

And on Sunday night I think a very nice thing will happend to mee, and that is also one of the reasons I want to go to Sweden

Tell you more later.

I had my birthday a while ago as you know..
Here are some pictures from when my workers had a little supprise party for me in the Officers bar ..


The Captain giving me a cake :)



Me and my boys:)

Today we came to Alexandria in Egypt and I gave all my workers a day of and took them on a tour down to Cairo and see the pyramids, we started early with a us ride for 3 hours down to the pyramids.

I have bin there before but it is always amazing to see them, how they could build that high so many years ago, we also looked at the Sphinx before we went to a papyrus factory and saw how they make the papyrus papers..

After that some shopping and then we stoped at the Museum and looked at some of the treasurs from the pyramids, you can not take any pictures inside there, but Tutancamos golden mask is very impressive..

Me, Grzegorz and Zimmerman infron of one pyramid



Me posing


The Sphinx

I hate Facebook....

I will never again make a new account there...

I hate Facebook....

I will never again make a new account there...

I must say this weekend was very good... Some nice things happend to me,, I will tell you later when i know more..

Now my boss is here and we have a lot of meetings every day.. So I have to behave and be mature...

But all things lead to another...

Martin O
Vice President

Today is another city and another hotel room, hmm I was trying to count ho many days I bin in a hotel this year there has bin approx. 270 days this year and it is more then 200 already and the year is not over yet..

Anyone want to change a boit so I can sleep in my bed and you in a hotel :)

To bad I have to sleep in this big bed alone :(