5/31/18 Cannes
Room service breakfast was great as usual. We had donuts, english muffins, croissants, juice, and coffee. We got to start the day a little later as we decided to go out on our own and not with a port adventure. We used the Rick Steves mediterranean cruise ports book which had great directions. We had to take a tender to the dock today but there was no waiting.
We then walked to the train station and took a train to Monaco. It was easy to busy tickets and was a nice clean modern train. We listened to a Rick Steves audio Europe talk on the way.
We then walked up to the palace following some of the walking tour that was in the Rick Steves book.
On the way up you could see the barriers that were still up from the grand prix. These were to prevent people from watching without paying for tickets.
From the top you could see all the yachts in the harbor and some of the grand prix track and stands that were still up.
We then stopped at a Starbucks and DH got a raspberry latte and a chocolate covered donut.
After that we took the train back to Cannes. It took about an hour.
We stopped at a supermarket and got wine, beer, and a huge bottle of Orangina that less than $2!
We spend some time sitting outside at a cafe and had a cappuccino, water, and bread and cheese.
DH then stopped at a bakery to get a chocolate croissant which he really liked.
We took a tender back to the ship. It started to sprinkle on our way but thankfully we didn't get wet.
Back on board we stopped at our room and then the beverage station on deck to get a coke.
We stopped by guest services to load some gift cards we had gotten as gifts onto our account and then sat on deck 4 while we waited for our turn to book a cruise at the future cruise planning desk.
We saw Cinderella walking around there.
We had dinner in Lumiere's that night. We really liked our serving team this cruise and think our head server was the best we had ever had.
DH had the marinated tiger shrimp and I had the braised oxtail soup. DH also tried the oysters rockefeller on the half shell and did not like them at all. Always a good time to try something new even if you do decide you weren't missing out on it before. We had our usual drinks this cruise of coke for me and chocolate milk for DH. We both had the grilled grain fed sirloin steak and DH also got an oven baked lobster tail. For dessert we both had the raspberry vanilla creme brûlée. I also got the chocolate lava cake and DH got a coffee.
After dinner we stopped at the room and DH had a beer we had brought earlier that day. We then went to 90s music trivia in O'gills. We did better than before getting 20/40 and were close on two others. We sat outside briefly on deck 4 after that but it was really windy so we then sat in the atrium. We think we may like to vacation on the french riviera sometime.
We then did two new activities for use. We went to "The Feud" game show in the D lounge and then to Donald animation drawing. DH did much better than me.
Later we tried some of the wine we bought. We learned that muscot is not the same thing as moscato and we weren't big fans. DH did like the beer he got though.