Well dinner on Wednesday night was with Mike and Steve and Anna and Rene in the main dining room. I have a picture of Rene and Anna in the shared folder. They are from Puerto Rico. Because Mike and Steve had late seating in the main dining room and we had early reservations in the My Time main dining room we had to get assigned to a sharing table at the early seating in order to eat with Mike and Steve. So we met Anna and Rene. Anna is a retired nurse and Rene was the CEO of four hospitals in San Juan. They were both widows and met when they were married to their first spouses and they got together when they met again after they were both widowed. They have been together now for six years.
After dinner the main theater show was a Comedian Juggler. He was hilarious. He reminded Bill of a younger Robin Williams because you never knew what he was going to do and he was manic and full of energy. We didn't go to the fourteenth birthday party for the ship. We saw the cake as it passed through the dining room.
This morning we were able to sleep in a little because we didn't pull in to port in Alicante, Spain until 11am. Then Mike and Steve and Bill and I went on an excursion to Novelda. this is a city just 30 minutes outside of Alicante. We went to a beautiful castle and church there. Lots of pictures are on the shared site. One unique feature of the castle was a three sided tower. No reason for the tower to have three sides but it did. Bill climbed all the way to the top while Mike and Steve and I had espresso's.
Then we all went into the church and it was beautiful. After the church we went to Case Cecila to taste some local wine. The man who owns the place bought an old hacienda from the 1800's and refurbished it for his wife who had family in Novelda. She didn't really like it so he decided since lots of grapes are grown in this region that maybe he would try his hand at making some good wine. He had several businesses and he had lots of money so when he went into the wine making business it was for his own pleasure and not to make money. He hired all the right people because the wines are very good. We got a tour of the the whole winery and then tasted a white and a red wine. Both were worth it. They tasted very good. After the tour, we headed back to the ship.
Tonight we will have a main stage show with some Argentinian tango dancers backed up by the RCCL production dancers. Also the comedian from last night is doing a short show in the Centrum.
So take a look at the pictures and I'll write more tomorrow when we go to Valencia Spain and the LLadro factory.
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