Glad to hear those of you who left us are arriving home safely. You're all missed !

The fun continues here on board. This has been a busy cruise for sure....only 1 sea day for a 17 night cruise. We have actually been really good about making excursions and haven't missed one day yet (though we've been tempted). We've thoroughly enjoyed our days in Italy. Yesterday we were in Amalfi and had an excellent excursion visiting a small town new to us... Ravello. It is so pretty, on top of the mountain and full of charm!

Today we're in Sardinia. We had a "scenic tour" and this sure is a beautiful island...just gorgeous, clean and very upscale. Unfortunately being Sunday and off season, it was like a ghost town with everything closed. At least we got to see the island and it is very impressive so hopefully someday we can come back.

Tomorrow we're in Livorno. We're signed up to go on a biking excursion in Lucca with Cheron & Mark. This should be interesting, it is suppose to be flat but the typical cobblestone streets. Thank goodness they provide helmets for us. We have had the best weather I can ever remember on any cruise. Sunny and gorgeous days. I hope I'm not jinxing us as I hear there's a chance of rain tomorrow :(

The fun continues on board, we had nice dinner at Prime 7 last night with Cheron, Mark, Sheila, Ken & Olivia... good food, good friends and lots of laughts. Tonight we're eating with Elda (asst. cruise director I'm sure many know her). Last night was the Gold, Platinum, Titanium cocktail party at sail away. It was on Deck 8 forward in the private "crew only" deck. A nice idea organized by GM Davor.

Up until yesterday we won trivia 3 days in a row. Our team is just Sheila, Ken and me but we're kind of recruiting Olivia to play with us, we need her brains. Yesterday the questions were difficult and we struggled, but as always it's just about having a good time together. They had a block party last night after the cocktail party and before dinner, I met lots of our nice neighbors who got on in Rome, much younger average age than we're use to cruising with.

So this kind of wraps up the past couple of days. Just having a great time....I can't believe we only have a few days left... !!