(pics to be added when we get home)
This was my favorite morning, and one that made me
want to stay for a much longer period of time, in Rome.
We woke up fairly early because we had to make our way
back to the airport. I booked transfers
from the airport to the cruise ship because it was an hour and a half drive,
and this was just about the cheapest way to get there. But before we did that I wanted to wake up
and have some coffee at a café, and have a nice little pastry.
We got up and dressed pretty quickly and were on our
way. I previously looked up a location
close to the hotel we could walk to, and that’s just what we did. We mapped our way to a cute little café that turned
out to be a chain. They had great coffee
and wonderful pastries. Shawn had two
mini cannoli, and I had a chocolate croissant.
After our brief café visit, we stumbled upon a fruit
market and purchased some fresh fruit – a peace for me, and a nectarine for
Shawn. Then we meandered a bit around a
couple of the streets where people were selling shoes, and some clothes, then
made our way back to the hotel to gather our belongings.
We packed fairly quickly, grabbed a taxi and headed to
the airport, but not before almost forgetting to empty the hotel safe
containing about $700 American dollars.
Thankfully I remembered just as we were walking out the door of the
hotel and grabbed it before officially checking out.
We caught the taxi to the airport, and almost immediately
got onto our bus to transfer to the ship.
Coming on the ship was a pretty cool experience. Shawn and I are not novices when
cruising. I think this is cruise number
twelve or fifteen for us – we’ve lost count.
But this ship is amazing. It’s
HUGE! Like SUPER huge. The central area of the ship is about 3
stories high and is magnificent. This
ship also has a dancing fountain water feature on the main deck at the top, and
has bars all over the place. The other
difference of this ship is that it has a massive buffet. It has three or four aisles of food to choose
from, and with over 3,000 people aboard, I can see why that is needed.
The cruise line gave us the perk of an all-inclusive
drink package, which means that all bottles of water, cans of coke and ALL
ALCOHOL are included the first week we are on board the ship. My comment to Shawn last night after my forth
glass of wine was “oh, this could be dangerous”. We’ll see.
I usually don’t drink back to back days at home – my body can’t handle
it with all the walking I usually do, but we’ll see how this cruise pans out…..
In the evening we made our way to the back of the boat
where there’s a bar and met some pretty cool people from Utah and
Australia. We chatted with them for a
couple of hours (thus the multiple glasses of wine), then had dinner.
The plan for tomorrow is to go see the leaning tower
of Pisa, but the kicker is that we have no plans of how to get there. We have a fun saying these days that is
holding pretty true: “fun adventures
with Carol”. It means Carol has no plans
and we just pretty much see where the day or experience takes us.
So tomorrow our plan is “fun adventures with Carol”
time. I’ll keep you posted…..
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