Out Of Office

'It was on the good ship Venus, by Christ you should have seen us, the figure head was a....' oh hello, you caught me singing from nautical tunes because the Out of Office has been set and very soon I will be bobbing around in the North Sea on my way to the Fjords of Norway and i am equally nervous and excited by the thought of my very first cruise.
Not knowing what to expect i have been asking around more experienced cruisers and on the whole the experience of other people is a good one, we have booked a cabin in the middle of ship to reduce the feeling of movement on the ship and  i have a good supply of sea sickness tablets (it was pretty unanimous that Stugeron 15 is the best apparently)  and sea sickness bands and on advice of other travellers, a decent supply of Ginger biscuits.
I have been obsessively checking the weather on every App and website possible for the week from 14th June to 21st June since we booked the trip in January and it has varied from windy to calm and everything in between but now that we are getting closer, it is settling on warm and a gentle breeze and i have been assured that a ship which weighs 181,541 Tonnes isn't going to be blown around by a gentle breeze which is reassuring.
For the first time ever i will be completely incommunicado so the work phone is going into the drawer and even though everyone at work has my personal number, as i am not paying the extortionate price for the Ships internet if someone does ring to ask me to 'quickly glance over' something  or ask where did i put the teabags, all they will get is the mechanical voice telling them the number they called is unavailable.
I have told the Rev if he fancies posting anything then he can feel free to but otherwise it's me and hubby, the North Sea and if the Sex Pistrols are any guide, the captain of this lugger who was a dirty bugger.