Dec 6, 2009 - Volendam, Holland America - Sydney, Australia

We got up this morning and decided to do some walking before we checked out of the hotel and got on the cruise ship. We walked down to Paddy's Market in Chinatown again and got in a good 2 hours of walking. Back to the Hotel to finish our packing and head on over to the cruise ship. We were first told our ship was going to be docked at Darling Harbor, but it ended up docking at Circular Quay which was a 10 min drive from the hotel. Perfect. Well we loaded up all of our luggage and headed over about noonish. The ship is only 63,000 tons but beautiful none the less. Got to work as soon as we got settled in our stateroom. We pulled our documents together and visited each of the staterooms where our clients are staying. Some we met, some we didn't. Tomorrow morning we have a desk in the Atrium for our guests, then we have a nice cocktail party for them tomorrow night. I think we'll hit the hay early tonight. It's been a long, hot day. So far we are 12 nautical miles out to sea and the boats a rock'n. I hope it doesn't mean storms ahead.