Departing is such sweet sorrow...

Today we had to leave the Pacific Princess. We had a very nice cruise but, unfortunately, all good things do come to a close. It was a "trip of a lifetime" for both of us, seeing things that, a few years ago, we never thought we would see. We appreciated the Princess' Elite level departure lounge since we delayed our departure until 9:00. Our driver was waiting for us as we left the terminal. It was neat seeing our names on one of those placards the drivers hold up.

Last Friday we celebrated our anniversary on board. Princess even scheduled a formal night for us to help celebrate the occasion! They served lobster and king prawns for the main course and Mary's favorite "Floating Islands" for dessert. While we're speaking about food, the Sail Away dinner last night featured Baked Alaska for dessert with the traditional waiter parade around the dining room. It was a fitting way to end our cruise dinners.

Today we are relaxing at our Athens hotel. We can see the Parthenon from our room and our hotel has a rooftop viewing area where you can take great pictures. We talked about taking the Hop on/Hop off around the city just to tour it, but it's election day in Greece and everything is closed except for hotels and restaurants. And being quite hot and sunny it would be quite uncomfortable on the open top of one of those busses so we decide to skip it.