January 1, 2013, Final Day at Sea

Happy New Year to everyone.  New Years Eve on board was wild.  At midnight it seemed like all 2000 passengers were together in one place.  It was lively and fun.  I am going to post several pictures and one video of the festivities.  We have certainly enjoyed our 14 day cruise to New Zealand and enthusiastically recommend Holland American Cruise Lines.  They went “way beyond” our expectations to see that we enjoyed our time with them.  Most of the passengers were Australian.  They are great people to travel with.  As a group they are humble and very friendly.  Most of the passengers were in the retired age range.  As a matter of fact, there were so many older people that they ran out of prune juice two days into the cruise.  Tomorrow we land in Sydney and then we are off on a 2 day jaunt through the Hunter Valley or wine country.