Monte Carlo

We spent a few hours in Monaco / Monte Carlo today. Monaco is a very small principality (about 1 square mile). We visited the royal palace (still in use and lived in), the cathedral where princess Grace was buried and the aquarium (if you care, Jacques Cousteau was the director for years). We definetely got our walking in today!

- this is a statue of one of the princes of Monaco. We thought he looked like the Gordon's Fisherman, so we took the picture.

- one of my favorite signs of the entire trip, for obvious reasons.

One note on the museum in the Royal Palace - the display cases were very clear and well cleaned. that led to one of the girls in the the group in front of us pulling a "Danielle". For those that know Danielle, you probably know about the infamous incident in Peru where Danielle was in the mall and wanted to take a closer look at a display case and rammed her forehead into the glass surrounding the case. It is still funny thinking about it. We, of course, laughed at her while she was in pain. Back to the girl who did that at the palace, her friends laughed at her (as did we).

After we viewed everything, we went back to the ship and put pants on to go to the casino (you can't wear shorts or tennis shoes). The casino is beautiful on the inside, but very expensive to ay anything. Rachael played slot machines and left a winner so that was great.

Monaco was small, but beautiful. Tomorrow we have an early morning for Rome!

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