Transatlantic Cruise
We departed the Port of Miami on April 19th for a 12-day Transatlantic cruise aboard the Norwegian Epic. There was one stop on Day 9 at Funchal, Madeira before the cruise ended in Barcelona, Spain.
Laundry!!
Our laundry is back!
Back to the room
Looking our our porthole. The sun is going down.
Kris
Relaxing at the end of the day.
Ten forward
One of our favorite hang-out places for this cruise, ten-forward. We came to hang out until we left port.
Off the ship!
Going to find our excursion!
Nice day
As the sun came out it looked like it was going to be a nice day!
Street lavel
We laughed every time we looked out our porthole. In the cruise description they act like it's SUCH a luxury to have an outside window. It's hard to make it out but we were literally at the level of the street. Also as low as you can go in the ship.
Cristiano
We didn't know anything about Madeira except people on the ship told us that soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo was born here. One of the things to buy, besides the wine, was his jersey.
Madeira
Our stop today is Funchal Madeira, Portugal.
Bird
We hada long-ish discussion about this one...duckling or bird?
Our painting!
After dinner we had an appointment with the art people onboard. We went to the auction for fun and we ended up winning, not bidding but we won, a painting like, for free. This is the painting. It's by Jean Claude Picot. He uses kind of atypical colors. For instance, we saw another painting of his where we saw a red field of wheat.
Green tea dessert
It looks awful but the green tea cake and ice cream was really yummy!
Teppanyaki
We went to the Japanese hibachi grill, Teppanyaki, for dinner!
Didn't win
Sadly, we didn't win much.
Casino!
We had a little time before our dinner reservation so we hit the casino!
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Walk
Taking a walk around the deck after lunch. It was a little chilly for people to sit outside and read.