Almost to SPAIN!

Well isn’t this the best way to start off the voyage.. I am on antibiotics for 7 days because of my ear piercing being infected yet again. This time I had to remove which is probably something I should have done about 5 years ago. Eh, whatever. SPAINNN TOMORROWW! It’s so exciting to finally reach our first port. I have a City Orientation tomorrow afternoon to go through Cadiz. Tomorrow night I plan on finding a bar to watch the soccer game. I’m going to Granada on Tuesday and Seville on Wednesday. So, I have a pretty packed schedule with buses and tours. However, I can’t believe I’ve been on this voyage a week. It doesn’t feel like it’s been that long. As I just start getting used to my classes we now won’t have them for 10 days because of going to one country/port after another. Tonight I had salad because guess what they have…. HONEY MUSTARD!!!! I am so excited that they have this, I feel like I’m at home haha. After dinner tonight we decided to sit outside on lounge chairs on deck 5. It was the most relaxing I’ve ever felt this entire trip. I was able to lie down and hear the ocean’s waves as they crashed upon the boat. But, I was also watching the sun begin to set. Of course in the hour I spent out there I have gotten a nice sunburn to start off with tomorrow. We had a logistic meeting tonight about safety, behavior, ship time, dock time, etc. DOCK TIME means that for every 15mintues you arrive after the On Ship time of say 1800hrs it will result in a penalty of 3hours per those 15 minutes. This penalty is tacked onto your arrival at the next port which means you will not get off the ship with everyone else. So, yes Mom I will arrive much earlier than the On Ship time to be that this doesn’t interfere with my next port. My next port is Casablanca, Morocco. I’ll be doing a Camel Trek through the Saharan Desert. I’ll update you as much as I am able to while in Spain. If I can’t I will give you a long update when I get back from my excursions and more details about Morocco!

PS. The Ocean was gorgeous today, it was the most beautiful blue. Nothing like New Jersey Ocean haha.