Between the Flow of Usual.

“Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them, with his smile." — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Our time in Ravenna was entirely too brief, and because we had to board the bus to head off to our cruise ship, we only had a few short hours to check out the really amazing mosaics there, which was certainly not enough time to do them justice. As it was, we spent some time checking out the "must sees" but it felt to me like we were Pokemon collectors more than anything...gotta catch em all!

After that, we packed up and headed on to our ship, which we remembered as we boarded is actually the first cruise ship we ever sailed on in the Caribbean, years ago! How fitting, I think, and also, it reminded us that this ship is the reason we like to cruise so much (there are little touches that make it kind of unique). How far we have come--as of this cruise we are now Diamond class members.

It was interesting to see how it has changed since last we saw it, and one big difference is certainly in the entertainment. I am not exactly certain European cruises value the entertainment as much as the Caribbean cruises do, because the entertainment on this one (at least, the first two nights) has been...well, kind of second rate? Which actually makes it a bit charming, to be honest. It feels more like a bargain basement variety show than anything else. I dig it.

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