Eastern Mediterranean Cruise: Piraeus {Athens}, Greece

    {Piraeus is where the port is located, but it's very close to Athens}

      We Aaron and I woke up early today because we had to meet with our excursion group at 8. Aaron was able to workout and get ready all in the time it took me to get ready and our bag packed for the day. Connor must have been exhausted because he was the first to go to sleep last night and the last to wake up this morning.

   All sprawled out.

Eastern Mediterranean Cruise: Santorini, Greece

{This, by far is going to be my favorite post because it was my favorite place to visit}

    Today was the day I was most excited about for our trip. When I would think of Greece, yes I would think about the important historical sites, but I couldn't wait to go to Santorini.  Those beautiful white buildings with blue domes where calling my name! 

     We had an excursion planned for today, so we had to make sure to be up in time to meet with our group at 8am. As I was getting ready, I started to see the island with a church on top. We were arriving and Santorini was in sight.

Eastern Mediterranean Cruise: Katakolon, Greece

    Aaron woke up extra early on our third day so he could workout {he made me look bad because I didn't workout once}. Connor and I decided to sleep in and then have Aaron bring us breakfast to the room. It was really nice eating it on our balcony and seeing different island on our way to Katakolon.

Island of Cephalonia that we saw when we woke up.

Eastern Mediterranean Cruise: Bari, Italy

    We slept so well our first night on the boat. We hardly felt the boat rock and we woke up to the sound of the waves since we slept with the balcony door open. It was great! Connor even woke up in a really good mood. We got dressed and then went to eat breakfast at the buffet. They had just about every breakfast food you could imagine.  After breakfast, Aaron and Connor went swimming. We weren't planning on swimming in the morning, but since we weren't scheduled to arrive in Bari until noon, Aaron thought it would be fun. Since I was already dressed for the day, I took pictures and relaxed.

Eastern Mediterranean Cruise: Embarkation From Venice

     I can't believe that after months of planning and looking forward to our family vacation, it's already come and gone! We had a blast on our 7 night cruise through the Mediterranean and I can't wait to share our experiences. I took tons of pictures, so I will do a post for each day like I do for all our vacation trips. 

     On our first day {6/21- Father's Day}, our friend dropped us off at the port in Venice at about 11am. Our check in time wasn't until 1, but we wanted to be there extra early since we had no idea where to go or what to expect. We dropped our luggage off first, and then went to check in. They gave us a priority boarding ticket since we had a small child with us {Thank you Connor!}. We showed our paperwork and passports, took our id pictures, and then went through security. We were done with everything and walking on the ship about 25 minutes after starting the check in process. It was fairly simple and we were so lucky to not have to wait in any long lines.

Our ship! Since we were so close to the ship, I couldn't get a picture of the entire boat.