I feel like I spent all day waiting. I got up and went to breakfast with April, then I came back to the room and waited for Kristin to call so she, Meghna and I could get off together. Finally she came by around 11:30 ready to go to the Lido. I didn’t realize we were waiting until AFTER lunch to get off. So, after lunch, I waited for Meghna to finish changing, then we got off and found out that Kristin and Ryan had already gotten off and left us. So much for hanging out together. Then, Meghna wanted to take the shuttle to the terminal, so we had to wait for that, only to find out it’s about a 5 minute walk away. Then, we had to wait for the shuttle bus to take us to the downtown area (it would have taken about 20 minutes to walk; and it took the shuttle about 20 minutes to get there). We didn’t get there until around 1:30.
It was nice once we got there because we just wandered around, we found streets of little shops and looked through a lot of them. Meghna was apparently hungry so we ended up asking a lady at one of the shops about cheap, good food. She directed us to a man called George who had a restaurant just down the street. Again, I had to wait a few minutes while he doted on her before we left and promised to come back later. We wandered around and found an old palace, now a museum. That was cool to walk around outside.
We intended to go down to the beach area below it and walk around in the water for a few minutes, but we ended up going back through the streets of shops before Meghna wanted to eat. I wandered around the shops by myself for about 20 minutes while she did that, then I went back to where she was, thinking she’d be about ready to go wander some more. She was a bit busy being admired by the owner, and eating her tazaki (not sure how to spell that) and drinking her wine. So, I got a juice and sat down with her. My phone wouldn’t connect to the wifi for some reason, so I just had to sit there and sip my juice while it took her another 30 minutes to finish. More waiting. :(
Finally, she finished and there wasn’t enough time to do much wandering, so we made our way back to the shuttle bus, to the terminal and then walked back to the ship from here. Now I feel like Meghna and I spend too much time together. We’ve hardly been apart since we met over a week ago. We room together, we work together, we eat meals together, we go out at night together, and we get off ship together (people won’t leave just one person behind, so since we’re roommates they feel they can leave both of us since we won’t be alone.) I’m looking forward to next cruise: Meghna’s on kids and I’m on tweens, and Jessie will be here so I’ll have other friends to hang out with!
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