What’s up, everyones?! Today is Day 3 of my vacation and I’m currently on the Celebrity Summit in the Mediterranean along the French Riviera. The haze has been pretty thick all day, meaning that all I can see is water along each side of the ship, though we should be within a distance that we could see the shore. Oh well. I’ll be taking a tour of nice tomorrow while my parents go to Monte Carlo to see the Grand Casino.
Barcelona
I didn’t get much of a chance to say anything about Barcelona in my last post, as I was packing up my room in order to get on the ship. But Barcelona was a cool, cool city. I think it was added by the fact that yesterday was the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix, so the city was packed with people from across Europe and the world. We stayed a cool little trendy place called Hotel Denit which was just off the Placa de Catalunya (sp?), which is like the central part of the city. From there, we took a bus tour around the city, featuring some really cool sights. Hopefully, if my computer works properly (it’s 48 cents/minute to connect to the Internet and, of course, all of my offline tools like Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Photo Gallery, and Gmail don’t want to work) I’ll be able to post them shortly. The highlight was this incredibly huge church called Anglecia Familia (well, instead of putting “sp?” next to everything, lets just say I have no idea how most of this stuff is spelled). Hopefully the panorama pic I took of it comes out OK.
We also passed by some other incredible stuff, but missed a lot too. I was hoping to check out Barcelona’s central market La Bouqueria, but ended up crashing out after we got to the hotel. Along the tour there was also some great things that I would have loved to have gone to had I the time like the home of Spanish team FC Barcelona, a museum dedicated to the architect of the above cathedral as well as many other structures throughout the city, Gaudi. And, personal face coming from Orlando, they have a theme park at the top of a mountain in town.
On A Boat
Today is a total day on the ship, and I have to say, I’m bored as #$%&! Not that it was totally unexpected, my total ADD personality would make it hard to cater to every impulsive thing that I want to do at the moment that I want to do it. Plus, the types of things that appeal to me probably doesn’t hit the general cruise target market of like 70 year-old retirees who are passing by me near the computer lounge as I type this and a live band plays Dream A Little Dream of Me the deck below me. The boat has two pools and multiple hot tubs (I don’t swim), I’m sitting next to the ships casino (but I don’t gamble), a huge theater (which does lame Vegas-type shows), and a host of all-you-can-eat restaurants (eating too much makes me sick). So far the only on-ship entertainment I’ve taken a part in was yesterday’s showing of Iron Man in the ship’s movie theater (making it the 6,241,977th time I’ve seen that movie). Luckily, only two more of these all-day at sea days to go. Tonight’s the big “formal” dinner. Another annoyance, you have to like dress up every night of the cruise, yet there’s no way to like press your clothes without paying them to do it for you (I guess they’re afraid that, if you had an iron, you’d set the place on fire). So all my stuff is wrinkled because it has been packed in a suitcase, so how nice can one look? Oh well. Speaking of the formal, it’s about time for me to start getting ready. My computer says 11:25AM which means it’s 5:25PM here. Have a great day Florida peeps!
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