France in 2 days.

Sorry about yesterday… I was under the weather … so much so that we skipped our morning excursion today. I think it’s a mixture of not enough sleep and bad allergies. Anyway we ended up not doing the morning excursion that we switched our night time casino excursion to…. Everything worked out well in the end… but we’ll get back to that in a bit.

Yesterday was Marseille and we had a half day excursion to Aix. It was a hour and a half walking tour with about an hour and a half on your own. The walking tour was nice but Bill and I had a good time just walking through the town. We did the up hill hike to Cezanne’s birth place. We walked around the markets and got some delicious chocolate croissants. We came back to the ship as I was already not feeling the best and napped during the siesta time. We then went into Marseille for a few hours. I guess Marseille is really god for shopping but it was too rich for my blood. We got some souvenirs and walked around a bit and then hurried back to the ship. We didn’t want to miss When Disney Dreams show. The show was great and there was a much bigger audience than the Twice Charmed one. Pirates night was also going on so we got a nice pirate pic taken and went to the deck party after dinner. Fireworks were great. The dis folks with an early dinner had staked out one of the “raised” decks in the back with a few tables so after we had the fireworks we headed down and hung out with then for a bit.

Today we had originally scheduled the night time casino, but we canceled it and changed to the bus tour (it was the only thing left) because we were going to miss out on too much. And it is a good thing since in the end I wasn’t feeling the best today. However, we skipped the new excursion we had switched to because at 715 I felt pretty crappy. So we got up around 10 and took a train to Nice on our own. Nice (niece) was really nice. The beach, however, was a “pebble” beach or what I would call small stones. Not very good to walk on in bare feet. After wandering through tiny twisty streets of store fronts, we made our way back to the station. We took the train directly to Monte Carlo and the Casino. The Casino was very beautiful stain glass windows in all the rooms frescos and paintings very James Bond. Unfortunately for Bill, the black jack room didn’t open until 5:10 and the latest we would want to leave to catch our train was 5:10. so we playd at the 5E min roulette table. It was fun and we went up and down for a bit. But in the end we were down and played our last chips. I was playing black and red (with only one 0 I had good odds) and bill played a few numbers. One of his numbers was then winning one and we walked away up for the gambling and about break even for the day (considering the tour we payed for and skipped). Anyway we had a lot of fun, but I don’t know if the 25E min Black Jack tables would have been 4 hours of fun at night.

Tonight was a new show called when Mickey Dreams. It was Cirque-like, but rather short and had a lot of filler. The acrobats were cool though. Tonight was semi formal night and the “midnight” buffet. Lots of fun but now it is 1am and I am ready to go to sleep. I think we’ll try to load some pics tomorrow if we have extra min.

-sarah