These are not the best pictures and I dont even know the name of these mountains but I just loved that there were active volcanoes almost every day that we would just sail past.
(Ok, I had to go back in here and add that I did know what volcano this was. It was Mt. Edna!)
Arriving into port in Sicily, Italy.
You can only see little parts of the highways. Most of the highway is actually tunneled through the mountains.
In America when buildings get old like this they are torn down and newer is better.
I love the old world feeling of Europe.
Char and I got off the boat and walked through the downtown area just exploring.
Fountains are everywhere but this one in particular is really really scary to me.
This was a park close to the port with these beautiful trees. Lots of locals hanging out here. There was also a well that they were bringing their buckets to and filling up for their families water supply for the day.
After walking around for a while, we found a train that took us down the road a little way to a beach.
This beach was pretty small and only a few other people out there. We were certainly the only tourist there. All the others actually lived right across the street. It was funny to hear the old Italian women yell out the window to their husband or kids that were down at this beach.
Water was so beautiful, clear, and blue.
This water was also soooooo cold. Just wasnt expecting that. You could not stay in very long at all.
Across the bay you could see smoke coming out of the mountains.
This was so relaxing and exactly what Char and I were looking for. Basically just us and a few locals and the scenery around us was perfect.
Love this picture.
It kind of looks like old abandoned boats but these are boats that belong to the families that live right above here. Close to dinner and they all come out, push their boats in the water, and go out to catch that nights dinner!
We saw a lot of these boats going out to fish.
It took us a while to figure out that there are 2 men sitting way way up high on this crows nest. They are the fish spotters.
We took the train back into the port.
This is the thing about every train that we have been on.
We dont see anyone buying tickets and there certainly was not anyone checking any of our tickets.
We were very confused by this.
Our ship was huge.
When we would come back to the port we could always see the ship hovering over all the buildings.
With a ship this big you could not feel the movement of the ocean at all. Not to mention that the seas were almost completely flat for the entire cruise. Huge difference from being in the swells of the Atlantic.
I wasnt even going to risk having motion sickness as I am prone to it so I had a patch on the entire time.
I didnt need them and lesson learned as I had 24 hours of withdrawals from taking the patch off when I got home.
If anyone has a chance to go on a cruise: Navigator of the Seas is highly recommended by us!!!!!
Hard to describe the size of this ship, the inside was decorated with art and sculptures.
It had all your normal stuff but also a full size theatre, ice skating rink, full shopping promenade, night clubs like Las Vegas, rock climbing, top deck was an entire sports deck with full courts, 18 hole miniature golf. Even had a Johnny Rockets. I was completely blown away with this ship.
Dinner at the Chops Steak House
Great dinner and yes that is Creme Brule in front of us.
After dinner we went to the theatre and saw a great Beetles show.
These guys were actually in Las Vegas the week before and their agent booked them for the cruise this week. They were only on the ship for that one show and then fly out of the next port.
It was so much fun!
Its a good thing that most days we got a late afternoon nap because the night life on the ship goes late into the night. Not that we ever did the late late night but it was certainly past my bed time every night.
After the Beetles show, the entertainment crew did a 70's party in the Promenade.
It was totally fun and filled with high energy.
These pictures look as if we are at a Chip N Dales male review. I can promise that we are not. If I were going to do that I am sure I would rather see Thunder Down Under. Just joking! Just Joking!
This 70's party had people that were age 1 to 90's. It was all good clean fun. There was a dance train that came through and these were the guys from the entertainment crew that had just finished dancing to YMCA. They were taking pictures with everyone.
Ok, was nite nite time for the Foss girls.
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