i'm back!!!

bet you didn't even know i was gone did ya!!! well we went on a 2 week mediterrean cruise and it was fantastic. it was a lot of work preparing all the itinerary for it because we decided to do most of our own touring instead of the easy way of booking an excursion with the cruise line which were ripoffs if you ask me.

my 2 sisters from vancouver were taking this cruise and we decided after much coaxing from them to join them as an early celebration of my 60th birthday!!!

we started out in barcelona, spain and we arrived a day early to see a little bit of the city before getting on the ship, and i'm glad we did. we took a hop on, hop off bus and that is a great way to see the sites when you only have a short time in a city. we did both the green and orange line, but we were so zonked by the end of it that we didn't get off the bus too much. our favorite part was 'park guel' which was designed by gaudi and there is a fantastic view of the city from there, he had such a great imagination.

after boarding the ship, our stops were monte carlo, livorno (pisa/florence), civitiveccia (rome), naples, mykonos, istanbul, kusadasi, athens and last but not least, venice where we stayed an extra night before flying home on tuesday.

i still have my sea legs and i've had an upset stomach ever since and i think it's coming off the gravol that i was taking for the prevention of sea sickness! oh well no pain, no gain as they say! ;)

i took 2,122 photos, so i think i'll be busy for a long time checking all of them before i will be able to scrap any of them. once i have looked at some i'll post them to give you a taste of europe's best in my eyes!

i'll be checking in on what i have missed on my favorite blogs, so be patient!