Casablanca port
The picture I had of Casablanca in my mind and the reality of the modern city were miles apart!
Up super early
It's going to be a long day today. We're stopping at Casablanca, Morocco but our excursion is in Marrakech, 4 hours away by bus.
Towel animal!
It's a crab tonight!
Calamari
Yummy calamari appetiser!!!
La Trattoria
Tonight for dinner we ate at La Trattoria, Italian food. Bill had his favorite, tomato and buffalo mozzerella salad.
Didn't buy anything
We tagged a few paintings we liked at the pre-viewing but it turned out they were all too much for us to buy. They had a drawing for free gifts but we didn't win anything. It was entertaining though. We enjoyed it!
Art auction
We've always been invited to art auctions on cruises but we've only just passed by them. This time we didn't have anything else to do so we thought, "Why not?" They had free champagne anyway.
Big gingerbread house!
You can see how big the display is in this pic.
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Little gingerbread houses
A close-up of some of the smaller gingerbread houses in front of the castle.
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Gingerbread castle
When we boarded the ship yesterday there was a band playing here. Overnight they built a gingerbread castle complete with working train!
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Laundry done!
When we came back from breakfast, our laundry had come back! So fast!
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Noisy
Having a porthole was cool but when the ship was going fast at night the waves hitting the hull made a loud WHAM noise in our room. Something to think of when picking our next cruise.
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Dinner!
We ate the first night at Cagney's Steakhouse. Yum!
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Laundry!
Since this is the 8th day of vacation, we had a lot of dirty clothes. We got our laundry in on the first day!
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Porthole selfie!
Bill in our porthole! We went to see if our luggage was in our room!
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Atrium plants
Part of the water feature that was next to our table while we were drinking our coffee.
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Caffe mocha!
Our first caffe mocha of the cruise! Yum!!!
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Paella!
They had a big paella cook-out for lunch by the pool!