We left the ship at 9:00am by ourselves and took a taxi
into the Old City, were we proceeded to see the sights that we had missed
yesterday. We particularly wanted to
visit the churches of the city and there were three very old Catholic churches
that we visited.
One of the churches was built in the 17th
century and they all were in amazingly good shape. We happened to walk into one of them as they
were having mass and saying the Lord’s Prayer to a packed church – what an
experience.
In another church we followed a stairway up to the third
floor and came upon the organ which again was from the 17th
century. In several rooms behind the
organ were the restoration rooms where they were working on restoring a number
of items from the church. They let us
walk through and it was amazing to see what they were doing.
We finally made our way to the opposite end of the city
where we met Jeff, Vera, Tim and Barbara for lunch. We ate at the place we were going to go to yesterday
but it was closed on Sunday. We all agreed
that the food was very good, but probably in 3rd place of the three restaurants
we ate at in town, but still very good.
Following lunch, we took a cab back to the ship at 3:00pm
as the ship was leaving at 4:30pm. We
then had the chance to go to the helicopter pad on the front of the ship, as
Jeff and Vera had an invitation and asked us to join them. We had a chance to see the ship leaving port
from the very front of the ship which was interesting.
The show tonight was a piano player who was very good, playing
like Jerry Lee Lewis, Victor Borge and Liberace.
We ate at 8:00pm tonight so that the ladies could get to
the casino as there was purse give-a-way and none of them won. As a matter of fact both of us lost tonight
in the casino. The good news is that we
are still ahead for the trip.
Tomorrow is a sea day and a great chance to just relax and we heading north for the first time.
Night
Night
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| At the entrance to the old city |
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| 17th century organ |
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| Another great shop!! |
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Right in the walkway from the port
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