Livorno

September 3, 2013: Livorno
I worked yesterday, so didn’t get off for the first time in Monaco. It wasn’t too bad though, I went up at 8 to meet the family that said they’d be there, but they ended up not coming, so I sat reading in Club HAL until 10 when a 4year-old came up, we watched “The Muppets” and then her grandmother came back to pick her up. So, I got to go to lunch on my own, hang out. I’d just gotten to the room to maybe sleep, then I got a call and the family that said they’d be there at 8 was there now. So, I spent the rest of the afternoon watching them play xbox. I’m not sure how I like this system of working port days. I open up at 8, then don’t have to be there unless someone calls us on the deck phone. Thing is, you never know when the phone will ring, so it’s not like I can go to the gym and work out, or start laundry. But, it does mean we don’t have to sit up in Club HAL from 8-4, just put up the sign at 8, and make sure to take it down after 4.

Anyway, yesterday was just a long day. Today I got to get off the ship. I met up with Mollie at breakfast and we made plans to get off with Emily to do some shopping. So, I killed some time until lunch, had some fruit as an early lunch, then the three of us set out. We had fun, I found a few things I liked but of course they didn’t have my size. Oh well, at least I didn’t end up spending much money. Once we tired of shopping, we went to a restaurant where Mollie got something to eat while Emily and I just rested and had something to drink since we still weren’t hungry after lunch. By that point, I had a really bad headache, but when I got back to the ship and tried to nap, my body just wouldn’t let me sleep.

James and I had dinner together, I still wasn’t feeling well so when we finished I attempted to take a nap again until I had to work. Yet again, none of the teens showed up, so I sat on the air hockey table and tried to make progress on my puzzle (Ryan and I both have a puzzle we started this cruise in an attempt to keep from being bored on port days and nights when no one shows up. I couldn’t even focus on the puzzle, or reading, so when 11 came around and no teens had come by (Ryan told me if no one shows up by 11, they’re not going to come, so I can leave then), I left and came straight to the room to go to sleep.