Well we all met for breakfast in the main dining room this morning for our last meal together. We sat at a sharing table with some folks from Georgia. That was nice until they revealed they were Trump people. So we tried to keep the conversation away from that. Mike is kind of funny when he is talking to strangers. Sometimes he over shares and sometimes he doesn't realize that there are other people around when we are talking. So on the trip, some guys that Mike and Steve met made up a trigger word so that Mike would know he needed to stop talking, that word was bamboo. So at breakfast we were saying bamboo to Mike.
Well after breakfast, Mike and Steve had to go to the theater so that they could be released to leave. Bill and I just went off the ship and waited for them in the luggage area. It's interesting when you make a crossing, since we arrived in Italy from an EU country, Spain, we didn't have to clear immigration or customs. So any what we weren't sure what we were going to do today. The ship ports at Civitavecchia and it is an industrial port. So there is NOTHING there. You had to take a shuttle to the entrance to the port just to get a taxi. So when Mike and Steve got off the ship, they claimed their luggage and we went out with the mass of people waiting for arranged rides. It was about 9:30am and Mike and Steve's driver wasn't due to come until noon to take the to their Rome hotel. We saw our table mates, Anna and Rene and swapped phone numbers and said good bye again. Then just kind of hung out. We didn't want to take the shuttle with their luggage. So Steve called his car company and asked if they could come earlier to pick them up. They said yes, the car would be there at 10:30. So we hung out and talked until the driver came. We sent them off to Rome to continue their trip.
We decided that we didn't want to go into town, so we got back on board the ship. Wow, what an eerie feeling. It was really empty. We wondered around and ended up on the top and went and played putt putt. By the time we finished, it was after 11 and we could go to our new cabin and unpack. So we met our new cabin steward, Putu and got all unpacked and changed into bathing suits and headed up to the pool. We found a nice warm sunny chair that wasn't by the really loud speakers and sat down to read and to ........ of course, nap. By 2pm lots of people were on board and the drinking had begun. We hung out by the pool until 3:00. Then we headed back to our cabin to shower and change and watch them cast off the lines. We had to leave at 4 for the mandatory life board drill. Our muster station was in the main theater so that was good. We met some Canadians who loved Trump and hated Trudeau. So I guess we won't seek them out on the trip. When the drill was over we headed back to our cabin to watch the cast off from our balcony.
Well it got to be 5pm when we are supposed to cast off and nothing. I was leaning over our balcony and I could see a guy standing at the gangway with a suitcase. So I don't know what was going on but he was talking on a cell phone and we weren't leaving. After about twenty more minutes and other suit case showed up and then two people came off the ship and the they and the two suit cases were taken off the dock. Then they pulled the gangway up and threw off the lines and we backed away from the dock. Very strange. We don't know why they got off.
So then it was time to head to dinner. During the crossing we had a shared table and now for this leg of our journey we will be having a table for two right by a port side window. Of course the tables are all so close together that you may as well be sharing. The meal was pretty good. I had really good chicken marsala. After dinner we went to the theater for the evening show. These are always little teasers of the shows to come during the trip. At the very beginning when they tell you to not take pictures or videos, they also said that RCCL did not tolerate abusive behavior, abusive language and that all incidents would be dealt with harshly. Wow, we had never heard them make this kind of announcement before. Now we are wondering if the two people who got off the ship may have made some kind of scene that caused RCCL to eject them from the ship. I guess we'll never know.
We sailed down the coast of Italy all night so we could arrive in Sicily first thing in the morning. They said we would be arriving around 10am.
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