BlondeNSgirl

The morning of our Athens stop was pretty interesting. I forgot to set our alarm to coincide with the time zone. We wondered why they brought our breakfast an hour early! Chris called our room when we didn't show up at our meeting time for our tour. Corrie literally got out of bed to answer the phone. When we realized we were late, we scrambled to get ready. We had never dressed so quickly! The day before, I had actually taken some of those Nutellas stuffed crouisants from the Windjammer and put them in a Ziploc. We were all glad I did! As that ended up being our breakfast, as we didn't get to enjoy our "early" breakfast that was delivered to our room!

 

We booked with Greek Taxi to do an all day tour of Athens. For this tour, we added another couple from our roll call, Rae and her husband, Keith. Since we were late, we quickly made our way off the ship. Thankfully, Paul from Greek Taxi was there waiting for us!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I specifically remember Corrie saying, "chris, I am going to punch you in the face". ha ha ha ha Actually laughing as I completely forgot about this.

After resting for a while, we got ready for dinner. We had any time dining, but had made reservations with a couple from our Cruise Critic group, Cheryl and Mike from Mississippi. We then walked around the ship.

 

 

 

 

 

Regretably, I don't have very many pictures of the ship itself. The pictures I have posted so far have been selections from the pictures taken from all 3 of us. I don't think Corrie or Katie took one picture the entire time we were on the ship! I do have others, but I will post them as I go along with the days.

 

After dinner and exploring, we didn't even think about going to the Welcome Aboard show. We went to bed. Toni and Chris that did the walking tour in Rome with us did go, and they said it was very good.

 

Prior to the cruise, we made arrangements to do our excursions in 3 out of the 4 ports with Toni and Chris and Steve and Steve from Orlando. Before we left, Toni and I joked that we hoped we liked each other because we would be spending a lot of time together! How do you think it turned out??

Well, consider we have flown down to visit you already, and met up with you on a tour in Halifax, the fact that we send gifts back and forth and hopefully meet up with Steve and Steve in Orlando in March....I would say...Pretty good!

Joanna! I just noticed this review. Well, I have not been on since we got off this cruise you reviewed. I haven't had a chance to read it all, but we had an amazing time and met some life long friends on this cruise. The trip was an experience of a lifetime. The trip and tours we did were amazing. Except Turkey, but, as bad as it was, it left us with some hilarious memories. Worth it. Lol. Athens was by far my favorite. Sicily's tour guide was the best to look at. yes, I realize I was on my honeymoon...I can look but not tought right! jk. Amazing time. Joanna, we are booking a cruise in 2015. I'll be sending details to you in case there is any chance you can join us. My in-laws will be with us, but they are AWESOME! yes, I LOVE my in-laws. We need to do this before Payton turns 2. I'll be booking it by tomorrow. (Long story, but wedding in Cuba has been called off and it has been a fight with my deposit, but I got it and have to book a cruise by tomorrow). I'll fb you details and Steve and Steve too.

Toni