Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Cadiz
We cancelled our all day excursion to see Seville. We had a leisurely breakfast in Lumiere's. I love the eggs benedict in this sit down restaurant. After breakfast I took Victoria to the kids’ lab so she could learn to make towel animals. She was looking forward to this. I finished my book, the Memory Keeper's Daughter. My reading has slowed down quite a bit. I thought the book was alright but not worthy of all of the hype I've seen it receive. I picked up Victoria at 10:45am and we prepared to walk around the town of Cadiz. We were told the town shuts down between the hours of 1 and 4pm for siesta. We would find out later much of the town remained open that day.
Cadiz is often the launching point to visit Seville. Seville takes a little over an hour and a half to get there. We opted to explore the town and I'm glad we did. It's a very cute seaside town. My father told me later it was the oldest continuous inhabited European town. We bumped into Nancy and family as we were getting off and we joined them. Victoria was thrilled to tour the town with the girls Meagan and Emma. Emma is 4 years old and Meagan is 10. We visited several museums including one which included Roman ruins, Casa del Obispo . The museum was all glass floors and stairs to see the exhibits below us. The girls were a little scared to walk. As hot as it was outside, each time we stepped out of a museum it seemed refreshing to get out of the indoors.
Cadiz
We cancelled our all day excursion to see Seville. We had a leisurely breakfast in Lumiere's. I love the eggs benedict in this sit down restaurant. After breakfast I took Victoria to the kids’ lab so she could learn to make towel animals. She was looking forward to this. I finished my book, the Memory Keeper's Daughter. My reading has slowed down quite a bit. I thought the book was alright but not worthy of all of the hype I've seen it receive. I picked up Victoria at 10:45am and we prepared to walk around the town of Cadiz. We were told the town shuts down between the hours of 1 and 4pm for siesta. We would find out later much of the town remained open that day.
Cadiz is often the launching point to visit Seville. Seville takes a little over an hour and a half to get there. We opted to explore the town and I'm glad we did. It's a very cute seaside town. My father told me later it was the oldest continuous inhabited European town. We bumped into Nancy and family as we were getting off and we joined them. Victoria was thrilled to tour the town with the girls Meagan and Emma. Emma is 4 years old and Meagan is 10. We visited several museums including one which included Roman ruins, Casa del Obispo . The museum was all glass floors and stairs to see the exhibits below us. The girls were a little scared to walk. As hot as it was outside, each time we stepped out of a museum it seemed refreshing to get out of the indoors.
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In this town it was difficult to spot younger people. Plenty of senior citizens were sitting in sidewalk cafes, chatting the day away. I found out later there are less young people in town because the jobs are sparce. We visited the cathedral, the center of town and had a quick lunch in the square. Nancy and I bought the girls a fan from a sidewalk vendor. Our attempts at bargaining were met with, "No puedo." The girls had a good time being drama queens with the fans.
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Our final stop was the Cadiz museum. By 4pm we were hot, tired and had walked all over town. It was fun touring with Nancy and her family. We got back to the ship at 4:30pm, grabbed some drinks and got ready for dinner.
Dinner was in Parrot Cay and was a bit rushed because we had plans to see the Flamenco dancing in town. Our servers insisted we dine in the room and that they would hurry dinner along. They did as promised and we were meeting our group off of the ship at 7pm. My mother opted to stay on the ship and my father came along. We walked ten minutes into town to the bar. The bar was empty when we arrived and our group quickly filled all available 70 spots. We were served green olives and one drink came with our admission. The sangria was good, the olives delicious! We ordered a few pitchers of sangria for the table. The adults really enjoyed the flamenco dancers but the kids thought they were too loud. One guitar player, one singer, one percussionist, and a male and female dancer entertained us for two hours. It was so intense in that intimate setting.
Dinner was in Parrot Cay and was a bit rushed because we had plans to see the Flamenco dancing in town. Our servers insisted we dine in the room and that they would hurry dinner along. They did as promised and we were meeting our group off of the ship at 7pm. My mother opted to stay on the ship and my father came along. We walked ten minutes into town to the bar. The bar was empty when we arrived and our group quickly filled all available 70 spots. We were served green olives and one drink came with our admission. The sangria was good, the olives delicious! We ordered a few pitchers of sangria for the table. The adults really enjoyed the flamenco dancers but the kids thought they were too loud. One guitar player, one singer, one percussionist, and a male and female dancer entertained us for two hours. It was so intense in that intimate setting.
We walked back to the ship. We were to leave at 10pm so we were cutting it fairly close. We went up to deck 9 and decompressed for a bit. We went to bed at 11pm but since we set the clocks back, it's actually 10pm. We looked forward to a sea day.
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