Cruise: Day Three

Tuesday, 7 December

Day Three – Palermo, Sicily

Mini Breakfast in Room, followed by breakfast buffet

10:20 out in Palermo

Two+ hours of walking. Noisy, dirty, bustling city. Lots of scooters. Crossing the street felt like taking our lives in our hands. Not what either of us expected and we didn’t really enjoy it, despite some cool buildings. 

If we were to go back to Sicily, it would definitely NOT go back to Palermo.  We've heard good things about other parts of the island, but Palermo was pretty awful.  Talking to others on the ship, it sounds like we're not the only ones who had a bad impression of the city!

As we neared three hours of walking, we found a small bakery/café and ordered a small pizza, German bier, Cola Light and 2 Cannoli for about 7euro (that's an amazing deal!)! All was yummy and we returned to the ship with happy tummies, even though we didn’t get to the gelato or lemoncello.

Back at the ship we took a nice nappy and then headed up to the buffet for some mid-afternoon snackies.  So far, the cruise definitely has napping and eating themes!

Visited the Crown & Anchor loyalty program to fix Jerry's status (since he had cruised with RC before on our honeymoon).

Quick visit to the casino to cash in quarters from the previous day.

Champagne bar for appetizers, caviar & champagne cocktails. Bellini sunset for me and our friendly bartender made Jerry a champagne cocktail with brandy. He was superfriendly as he gave us a round on the house to take with us to dinner.

Dinner:

Me – Spanikopita type thing: Pastry crust over ramekin filled with feta, spinach and peppers, tai chicken salad, beef Diane with mashed potatoes, broccoli, carrots and mushrooms and Kahlua crème brulee

Jerry – Shrimp cocktail, , beef Diane with mashed potatoes, broccoli, carrots and mushrooms and Kahlua crème brulee

Finished off second bottle in wine package (Cab)

Casino – Jerry roulette,  Slots for me.  Jerry lost his $40 pretty quickly but I played $5 for a very long time.  I think that's why I like slots.

Back to the room for some chillaxing & studying.  Studying because the cruise falls right in the middle of my finals.  Both professors were kind enough to let me take the exams after the semester has officially ended, but it means putting in some study time on vacation.

My arm is sore – not sure if it’s from the workout yesterday or the slot machine pulling!