Saturday was our last full day of cruising and fun and we made the most of it. In the morning we had a tour of the city with an ex-NYC guy who is living in Antwerp now. Full of tons of good info, suggestions and more. It was also the day that St Nicholas (Sinter Klaus) was arriving in Antwerp. He arrives by boat with his (politically incorrect as pointed out by some teachers) black Peters. The city square was full of kids and families out to enjoy the day. We learned that the city used to have almost 500 statues set up on buildings of the Madonna and now approximately 200 remain. Their architecture was great and we were sad to miss the cathedral but a funeral for an important person was going on.
We tried frites & mayonnaise and I got to introduce my American friends to the joys of mayonnaise with chips. In the afternoon, I enjoyed some lovely sunshine on the top deck and Mum and I wrestled our luggage into submission stuffed full of goodies to bring home. I was relieved to find a hobby train store-after 5 countries-located in a parking garage of all places. A good friend of mine collects them and cannot get the specialty catalogues at home.
In the evening we had a lovely dinner with the great group of friends we made on the ship and lots of laughs after dinner until we all had to get to bed.
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