Reliving our honeymoon

This is an excerpt from a letter I wrote while on our cruise ship during our honeymoon. It brings back some great memories. Enjoy!

We have both been very tired, trying to adjust to this 9 hour difference is rough. And to make it worse, we move ahead another hour tomorrow when we hit Greece.

Well, like [anonymous wife name here] said, we got here safe and sound, but it wasn't without some excitement. Our flight left Atlanta 2 hours late, so we missed our connecting flight in Paris (which appears to be a very chaotic airport to begin with), and so they put us on another flight, but rather than being at 9:55AM, it wasn't until 6 PM, which meant we missed our afternoon in Venice, added 8 hours to our trip, and also got to try to figure out some French to get by for the day. But we finally got to the ship about 9PM.

So in the morning, we got up at 7 and had breakfast, then headed into Venice for a few hours, making it back to the boat for our 1PM departure. Venice was pretty amazing, and we even got to see the plazas flood, which apparently happens every high tide, and according to some signage, about 300 days a year.

Today the boat dropped anchor off the coast of Croatia, and we had to take a 10 minute boat ride to the shore, where we then took a bus to the Old City of Dubrovnik, which is the historic area, and is totally walled in by huge stone walls and guarded by ancient fortresses. It is a combination of residences, stone alleyways, shops, and cafes. We spent the afternoon walking around the squares, and through the tiny little walkways and alleys, doing a little shopping, and relaxing to people watch while we drank cappuchino and ate some fresh bread. Both the old part of Dubrovnik and Venice are interesting in that there are no cars, since the old streets are so tiny and just stone and rock. We also climbed up the stairs and walked around the entire wall surrounding the city, which had some great views of the area from above, and of the rocky cliffs and the Adriatic.

Tonight we are relaxing because we are so tired, and tomorrow we will be docking at Corfu, which is a Greek island off the coast of Albania, across from Italy. If we are up to it we will probably try to walk the 2 miles from the boat to the city to see more of the local life, rather than getting shuttled over in a bus or something.

So far it has been great, the only downside is that most of the people on the ship are really old, although we met another couple today who we will probably have dinner with tomorrow. The other downside is that we have been exhausted, so we have been really drinking a lot of cappuchino, since most of the places around here don't really do coffee, rather they just have espresso or cappuchino. All in all though it has been great, and the scenery is amazing, and so far the weather has almost been like San Diego, but clearer air and nicer looking water.

Take a look at the flickr photos