Well the day of our anniversary finally arrived. It is a sea day. We are traveling from Valencia, Spain to Civitavecchia, Italy. On our way we will pass the islands of Corsica and Sardinia. We are hoping to still have day light when we go through the straits. We should have Corsica on our left and Sardinia on our right.
After breakfast I headed up to the solarium to get some chairs saved for the day. I got four chairs together and texted he guys. The temperature in the enclosed solarium was just right. Out by the pool the wind is pretty strong and it can be chilly. So we always start out in the solarium on sea days.
The guys got there pretty quick and we alternated from reading, talking, getting in the hot tub, getting in the pool back to reading and sometimes napping. Sounds pretty boring, right? but we like it. It's how we spent he seven days of the crossing. We really haven't played any of the cruise games. A little trivia the first couple of days, but we abandoned that for napping.
Bill and I had to go to a meeting in the main theater to tell us about how we will be processed when the ship gets into port in Civitavecchia. We are changing state rooms. Going to the starboard side, about the same amount forward. They told us that we need to pack our bags and the cabin steward will move everything including our hanging stuff to our new room and that it should be ready for us at 11 am. We arrive in port around 7am. Our new Sea Pass cards will be delivered to us tonight. And it seems it will be pretty easy. So back to the solarium we go. If I haven't mentioned it before now, we generally only eat breakfast and dinner. So there is no having to get up and go to lunch.
Tonight we are going to dinner in the specialty steak house on board with Mike and Steve in honor of our anniversary. We head to the Schooner Lounge just outside of the Chops restaurant to have before dinner drinks. While we are there we start to see Sardinia off the starred side of the ship. So Sardinia is very mountainous. We had a good time watching the island as we sailed. Then all of a sudden there was a dolphin swimming and jumping along side of the ship. This is the first time we have seen a dolphin on the trip. We only saw him for a minute, I think he jumped three times and then he was gone.
When we went into the Chops restaurant, We had a window on the port side of the ship and we could see Corsica. Also very mountainous. We had a great dinner, great wine and great friends to spend time with. At the end of dinner, they brought us a piece of red velvet cake with Happy Anniversary on the plate. It was a pretty nice evening.
After dinner we went to the show in the Theater. It was Carlo Truzzi & Simona's Shadow Show. In case you are wondering......yes it was a guy and girl making shadow pictures with their hands!!! I can't believe this is booked on a cruise line. They had a whole music sound track to go with the shadow puppets. And I guess he was pretty good. He not only did animals but people too. Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Tina Turner and a bunch of others. But it was shadow puppets. Come on Royal Caribbean get some real talent in here like NCL's Burn the Floor. Oh well.
So that's it. Then we went back to our cabin to pack up the stuff in our cabin. So out come the suit cases and we start packing everything except the clothes on hangers. Well guess what?? Our stuff has either multiplied or it has grown because we filled out suit cases completely and we had a ton of stuff on hangers. I don't know how we are going to get packed for the train ride up to Lake Garda. After this horrible packing experience we headed t off to bed and I don't need to give you and more details.
More tomorrow.
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