Let me start off by saying “that was close.” We had planned to meet right off the dock at 8:00am. If you showed up, you went to Rome. If you didn’t, you decided to stay on the ship. At least that was the plan last night. This morning, when the ship was supposed to have docked at 7:00am but was still out on a rocky sea and heading away from the port, things got fluid. Some people bailed, mostly based on lack of sleep…since we’ve been having a lot of early days and last night was rocky making it hard for some to sleep.
Deanna, Brett, Beth, Monica, TJ and I headed out. A shuttle bus, a walk, and a 50 minute train ride and we were in Rome! Right by the Vatican! We walked around there a bit then headed over to a castle (Castel Sant’Angelo). Deanna went there when she was here last year and it was tops on her list of places to take us because it has a great view of the whole city. I wish I could have spent more time there. It had a lot of history and info about Rome and the Egyptian influence on it years ago. Plus, apparently Voldemort was there years ago (see photos).
Beth, Deanna and I had a small coffee break there…very smooth café latte. Then we headed out to find a place to eat. I got the spaghetti alla carbonara (with eggs and bacon) and it was great. All of us were pretty beat and got back to the ship around 4:40 to try to get a nap in before our 6:00pm call time.
Which leads us to our improv show. It went great! We had a good turn out and Jen made a nice running order.
Tonight is the crew Halloween party…but we’re meeting and leaving at 8:30am tomorrow to hit Lucca and possibly Pisa, so I’m not going. Everyone has been sleep deprived with the mornings as I mentioned earlier.
One nice tidbit…well, kind of. With all of the economic chaos going on in the world right now the dollar to euro value is a little better. I know at one point it was 1.6 dollars per euro and today it was around 1.25 when I used the ATM. Score! What will it be tomorrow?!
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