Day 84: At Sea between Greece and Northern Italy

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Cloudy sea day as we leave the Mediterranean Sea and enter the Adriatic Sea 



Highlighted Calabria which is the area of Italy that Rob's maternal Grandmother's side of the family came from


Craft Class was string art and a separate mask making class for the masquerade ball tonight 

Rob tied for the Bronze medal (3rd) in the Island Princess Olympics. 



Formal Night as we end the 4th of 5 Segments of the Cruise. Instead of the normal Captain's "ball" they had a masquerade ball


G from our favorite bar Good Spirits was handing out colorful drinks


Some of the passengers and Cruise Director's team 


Toni with Cruise director Andi standing behind her


Cruise Director Andi with his Assistant Cruise Directors


The newest Island Princess boat contest winner



We had tried Escargot one other time, when we were in Rome years ago.  Figured since Italy was our next stop, we should try it again.


Formal night is often lobster tail


Francisco not only carried ten meals from the 5th floor kitchen, up the escalator, and from the back to the front of our 6th floor dining room, he started creating the leaning tower of Lobster after he got it up here.



Sun setting on another sea day.  As we end March and head into April, we are beginning to see the end of this adventure on the horizon.  It is hard to believe we have less about 4 weeks left.




 

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