Today was the last day with my family. We woke up leisurely this morning and then got ready for the day. I helped my mom pack all of their stuff the night before so she was all ready and much more organized than normal. We went and had breakfast like normal and then decided to go shopping.

My mom wanted to go find this street that she saw when we were walking around yesterday. Of course she was wrong about the street name but we went back to a street that we had seen that looked good. I decided that I wanted to go to a souvenir store to get my standard shot glass and post card. The store we found was great and had what I needed plus my mom was able to get Murano glass jewelry for her friends. I also found a calendar with statues that have penis' showing. Its going to look lovely on my refrigerator back at home.

After that we wondered the streets a bit and stopping at little shops and booths along the way.

Once we got back to the hotel we had about an hour to cool off and relax in the lobby until the taxi was going to come and pick us up. We had some good lemon sorbet and packed up the last few things that we got while shopping.

Then we all got into the same taxi and they drove me to the train station. It was sad leaving my family and I already miss them. They then took the cab to the airport to head to London.

I then had to get a ticket for the train to get back to Civitavecchia. I got in the line for the ticket office which had about 20 people in it. The stupid office only had one person working at a time so it took about 35 minutes to get to the front of the line. I finally get the ticket and ask what time the train leaves and she says that it leaves in 2 minutes and then the next one would be in an hour. Of course the platform that the train was leaving from was very far away so I missed that train. I went back inside the terminal and got some food and then waited for the next train.

I got on the first car of the train and to my luck it was air conditioned. It made the ride a lot more bearable. There was a child sitting across from me but he was very well behaved. I talked to his dad who was sitting next to him and they were from Norway. We chatted for a bit which helped pass the time. The other half of their family was sitting a row behind, mother, daughter, and son. All the kids were under 11 years of age.  They were going on a cruise in the Mediterranean and it was their first cruise. That should be an interesting time for them.

I finally got back to Civitavecchia and walked back to the boat. I had dinner and then just relaxed for the evening because I was really tired. That night after the ship left the port they decided to do a muster drill again. We have to do one once a month, and of course they chose to do it the night that half of the people on the voyage wernt on the ship. It at least made the drill seem to go faster.

We finally were able to go to bed around 11 because that when the drill and the announcements finally ended.