Friday, April 30th, Day 9 Pisa
We started off the day with breakfast at Parrot Cay. A couple who sat down next to us told their waiter theyd missed their excursion - AGAIN!
Debbie and her dd wanted to go to Florence, and I really wanted to see the Leaning Tower, so we split up today. Florence was about 2 ½ hours from the port, so they played it safe and took a Disney excursion. When you're going that far from the ship, that's when the peace of mind is worth it to take an excursion.
We tendered in. You can see the tender boats next to the ship:
We walked to the train station and caught a train. We took a wrong turn on the way and walked through the beautiful town of La Spezia.
On the train we had a private car. I was, once again, very impressed with the trains in Italy. Dd stood on her chair to take this. You can see my hand on her waist in the mirror:
We ended up on the train with a ton of people from the cruise. When we got off, we all followed each other around looking for the correct bus. There were about 25 of us on the bus and when one person found out which stop, we passed it around!
The tower was great. Disney had some of their photographers stationed there to take passenger pictures. I'd seen some passenger pictures in front of the colisseum and other things earlier in the cruise. I just assumed that these were all taken on Disney excursions. I was excited to see them waiting for any passengers. We werent too hard to spot with our
Castaway Club lanyards and dds
DCL shirt.
They took some great pictures.
We took the standard, hold up the Tower picture.