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The ship had a galley tour at 4:30 yesterday afternoon, so we went. It's huge, duplicated starboard and port, and all stainless steel. |
| The galley was completely spotless and very cold. The cooks were already starting to plate things for the 6:00 seating (us), so it was starting to get busy in there. |  |
 | We had to duck out of the tour to get ready for the Captain's end of cruise celebration. They served champagne, but you could order what you wanted. So I got my Tanqueray 10. They don't have Magellan on board. |
| John Powell (AHI Tour Director) and I celebrate a really successful cruise. He was very fun. He said we did a great job. |  |
 | This was our last dinner with our darling new friends at table 101 because we are eating at Silk Road tonight with Nancy and Ray Retzlaff. Blake and Karen joined our table so we were 8! The final dessert was baked Alaska, which got paraded around the room. But we also got fabulous caviar for apps. |
| It was three days until Nina's birthday, but the Captain wished her one, and their anniversary was right before the trip, so Shel arranged for the musicians and crew to sing "Let me call you Sweetheart." It was so so sweet, Shel joined in looking at Nina with such affection. What a great group! |  |
 | We pulled into Sorrento at around 7 a.m. We were on the aft deck by 6:00 a.m. watching Capri go by on the other side of the boat. We wanted to get our coffee early so we could get off the boat and get going, but they didn't start serving breakfast until 7. So we hung out there watching the town grow and the crew put the anchor out. |
| Hawk rode the first boat into the harbor, charged up the steps and ran to the train station. He was at Pompeii by 9:30, way ahead of any tour bus. And it cost him peanuts compared to a tour. This was a yard between shops and houses. |  |
 | Pompeii was a BIG city and they've excavated the whole thing. This was a temple. Several others were two huge stories tall. |
| They had rooms containing amphora, column pieces and several casts of the people who died in the eruption, like this one. |  |
 | This looked like a shop front for selling food. Several had these round bowls built into counters. |
| We found each other in the town square of Sorrento, after I had spent the morning walking the little streets. We walked over to the edge of the cliff and found a sidewalk cafe. The lemon sorbet was unbelievable. |  |
 | That's a lemon tree, casually growing in the center of town. This area is famous for limoncello, a really delicious lemon liqueur. Tonight is our last dinner, it's a casual night and we're supposed to leave our bags packed outside our doors by 11:00 p.m. Tomorrow we fly Lufthansa from Athens to Frankfurt, and then catch the 5:00 to Chicago which gets in at 7:20 p.m. |