Cruise Day 7: Nice

Nice is sooo Nice! There isn’t much to see or do, but we both absolutely loved it there. After some drama trying to get off the boat, we had a really nice day. You see, they sometimes don’t port, they just kind of drop their anchors in the middle of a harbor and take little boats back and forth to the port. What they failed to mention was that unless you had paid a fortune to take one of their excursions, that they weren’t going to let you off the boat between 7:20 and 8:00. So we get there around 7:20, and there is a short line of people waiting on the 5th floor stairs. That’s fine, we get in line. Well, the problem was that people would take the elevator down to the 4th floor and start another line closer to the actual exit (which they weren’t letting people off). Instead of telling people to take the elevator back up to the 5th floor, they would gently ask people, which of course, being Spanish and not caring that other people were waiting in line, they just ignored the workers who were supposed to be in charge. Well the people in line of the 5th floor were waiting behind one of those rope barriers were not going to just let people cut, so they took down the barriers and bum-rushed the exit. We followed (hey, why not?!) and waited in a mob of people now by this point for almost 30 minutes. Meanwhile, more people keep getting off on the elevator and the workers keep letting them cut! It was absurd. I was close to stealing one of the workers shirts and stand in front of the elevator myself and not let people get off there.

But when we finally got off, we walked up this cute little park where there were no cruise people and it was really nice and relaxing. It offered a great view of the perfect water, which we later went swimming in.
Most of the day we just wandered around the cute city and talked about how we are going to move there if McCain wins. And no, I’m not joking about that.

That night we had a big dinner with the 3 couples we had met, where all the boys (except Blake if you can believe it) ordered 2 to 3 entrees of Steak, salmon, other expensive food, as well as several appetizers of escargot, shrimp, you get the point. I already miss being at a restaurant where if you want 2 entrees, you get 2 entrees! You want 4 desserts? They don’t even flinch! Quite a change of pace from paying almost $15 for a hamburger meal from a fast food place in Sweden!