We finally made it to land today … Greenland!!! Yaaaayyy. The water was smooth and it was a beautiful day. Qaqortoq is a small village on the western side of Greenland. They use Danish Kroners and speak Greenlandic. It’s a place where they still hunt seals and sell seal fur. It’s a little weird for us Californians to experience all this but we have to respect that this has been their way of life for thousands of years. (note: if you click on the photos you can read the captions.) On the ship’s visitor information for the ports they listed a Thai restaurant called Bon Thai. We thought it would be fun to have Thai food in Greenland so after walking around town we followed the map to find the restaurant. As we were walking Justin sees 3 Thai ladies and he says “follow them.” We gave him a hard time because we thought it was very insensitive of him to think that every Thai person would work at the Thai restaurant. So, we walked in circles for about 20 minutes and asked several pedestrians and no one could understand us. We finally get back to the center of town and asked a store owner. He tells us that the restaurant moved and it’s now called “In Box.” We go to the other side of town (which is a 5 minute walk) and go into a building. We tried 2 doors in the building and no luck. We get out of the building and see there are 2 Thai ladies and ask them. Apparently, lunch doesn’t start til 2 pm (it was 12:15). Hmmm. Very weird business model – ship is in town, lots of visitors including a lot of Thai workers on the ship, and they don’t open while we are in town???? So, the lady was very nice, we thanked her. Justin was right, one of the ladies was a woman we saw earlier. Moral of the story is that we should have followed the Thai people.
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