Sicily!

June 26, 2013: Messina, Sicily
We had a lazy morning. I got up, went to breakfast and then came back to the room and kind of took a nap before Meghna and I got off the ship.

We walked around a bit, then found a restaurant with pizza, so we had lunch there. Meghna didn’t understand when I said they were normally big pizzas, so we ended up ordering two whole pizzas. We ate about half each, then combined the other half in a box and took back to the ship for later. Then, we just wandered around, halfway using the tourist map as a reference point, but mainly just wandering around in the less touristy areas when going from “places of interest.” We got back on the ship and then got ready for dinner, Ryan had organized it for us to eat at Pinnacle, so we could all take full advantage of this newly discovered perk! I was Meghnas guest this time, since she was mine last time. It was a really good dinner, as I’ve discovered Pinnacle dinners typically are :) Steak, yum!

Meghna and I still had time after dinner before we had to work, so we ended up going to the Crow’s Nest to listen to the solo guitarist, who we’ve made friends with at the OB. Meghna had a hard time sitting still it seemed, so we ended up walking around and looking at books in the library as well. Then we changed into our uniforms (we got to be in smart casual for dinner) and went up to the Loft. It was sports night, so most of the teens were extremely happy about that; they’d been asking us to play Dodgeball again since last time we let them play. I stayed down in the Loft with those that didn’t want to play, and then we switched off after a while when one of the girls got hurt. I attempted to stop some of them from making the game so violent, but it didn’t work; so, after a few more headshots, I decided that it wasn’t okay to keep playing, so I ended it. The boys weren’t really happy with me, but I think some of the girls were glad to have a reason not to play anymore, and risk getting hurt. We hung out in Club HAL and played MarioKart the rest of the night.