Off the Dam Ship

Civivecchia
Saturday May 9, 2009
7:45AM

Just finished my Eggs Benedict Italian (tomato sauce and mozzarella) and am sitting here at the Lido with Charlotte and Marlene. Kastawa our Bali an assistant server just brought us another fresh squeezed orange juice and Marlene is going to fill up our coffee again.

We are on board the Noordam until 8:45 because there is a scheduled disembarkation and we asked for the last window. It is the nicest day yet in Rome with sunny skies and probably high 70s. Should be a great day for our last excursion to the Borges estate palaces and gardens for 5 hours.

Last night we redeemed our dam dollars. Charlotte got a t shirt and a sweatshirt (they only had medium small sizes left). Marlene and Lyle took a sweatshirt and a beach towel. We each had over 50 dam dollars. Our meals in the dining room were an exact match on the next to last night Surf and Turf with baked Alaska and last night Lyle had his last steak, Charlotte chose duck orange and my sister and I had beef tenderloin.

After dinner we had to pack up suitcases and have them outside our stateroom before retiring for the night…..we were done by 10:30 and got a good rest until awakened by “our cruise director JT” waking us with disembarkation information at 6:20 PM. So now we have about 30 minutes to kill. I have 7 internet minutes left so I should be able to log on and send this very soon

We just were talking….this is the longest time I have been with my sister since I graduated from high school. It was a very fine experience being with Lyle and her and we all did very much enjoy the cruise experience….but I believe 21 days is ENOUGH so it is back to microwaves, dishwashers, and full time internet.

I hope the blog has let you know we are doing well but I doubt it was that good but it will provide a record for us to maybe organize the pictures (almost 1500 so far) and maybe do a scrapbook.

So once again we are off the dam ship and will do one last day in Rome before flying home on Mother’s Day. I think we will be in Philadelphia mid afternoon if the children want to speak to their Mother. We should reach Raleigh about Midnight Monday morning.

Thanks for reading and in honor of the 200 Russians that sailed with us this leg...

Dos v danya.

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Dick Macartney