A 7 Day Mediterranean Cruise out of Rome... This is the life, I tell ya'.
During the course of the week we took over 2000 pictures and videos if you include the kids' cameras (mine alone was over 1800). I will do my best not to put every. single. picture. on this blog--I promise.
We'll start by chronicling the ship itself:
The boat from the ports
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Turkey |
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Turkey |
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Sicily (see the boat behind the church?) |
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Sicily (Mainland Italia is in the background) |
The beautiful sights inside the ship
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Mosaics in the pool area |
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Art on every floor and down every hallway |
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A striking resemblance |
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Art hanging from the main buffet seating |
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Hanging down the atrium |
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Bright colors |
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Sparkly stairwells |
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Glittering chandeliers |
Life on the busy decks
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Safety is always important! |
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Checking out the port in Turkey |
Silliness abounds!
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This towel creation was hanging from the ceiling |
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A cauliflower dog on the buffet line |
Reflecting
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Mirrors on the ceiling in the hallway |
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Looking out the windows at breakfast |
A room with a view
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Our room faced out the front of the boat--this is as we are preparing to leave Sicily (the window view was awesome...but it needed a cleaning!) |
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Sunset from our window |
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Full moon from our window |
We putt-putted (is that a word?), ice skated, swam, read, ate, shopped, ran, ate, napped, ate, air hockeyed, hot tubbed, ate, and had an all-in-all great time--and that was just on the ship! The shore days were filled with their own wow factors...Sicily, Athens, Ephesus, Crete. But I'm getting ahead of myself here--I'll save some of that for next time!