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Sunday 8th April 2012
Weather: Bright sunny start to the day, then getting windy/cloudy with rainshowers by mid-afternoon.
Today is all about the chocolate (in Callum’s eye’s!)!!
We all had a great night’s sleep last night … the ships engines were running really quietly as we were mooring off-shore today and getting the tenders in to the pretty town of Korcula.
Callum awoke and his eyes were barely open when he proclaimed “It’s Easter Day Today!!”. He then spotted that the Easter Bunny had paid a visit and spent a while searching for eggs hidden around the cabin.
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The old town of Korcula was just ahead of Azura and we were dropping anchor offshore. Today was a tender operation and already 3 tenders were being dropped into the water from the starboard side and we guessed the same had happened on the other side.
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It was a bright, sunny start to the day but it was a little windy on the balcony … hopefully we wouldn’t need jumpers or coats.
In the past, it can take a while to get to shore whilst using the tenders. We had breakfast and headed to Malabar after we gathered cameras and coats together (just in case!) Boat Boarding cards 18, 19 and 20 had just been called and we were issued with number 22 so hopefully we wouldn’t have a long wait. We had barely sat down when our number was called so headed down the staircase to Deck 4.
It took about 10 minutes to get from the ship to the ashore and the team of photographers were there to capture the moment. They were getting the older children to do star jumps then taking photos of Azura between their legs!
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We wandered around to the main gate to enter the old town … it’s a really small old town and wouldn’t take too long to explore. A lot of shops and restaurants were closed (as it was Easter Sunday). It is quite picturesque town with extremely narrow lanes. We tried to climb the Marco Polo tower, but they wouldn’t accept Euros so we just wandered around the outskirts of the town. The black clouds were racing in towards us so we decided to head back to the ship after walking around the city walls.
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There wasn’t too much of a queue for the tender on the way back … and were lucky enough to get seats on the top of the tender so we could get some great views of Azura on the way back in. We could feel some spots of rain as we got off the tenders.
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Overnight an Easter Egg Display appeared in the atrium – not as impressive as last years but still quite fun.
We went to Sindhu for lunch and the staff now knew that Callum wanted his own set of Nashta. He once again chose the Chicken Lollipops, Beef Skewers and Duck Piri Piri (and he ate the lot).
By the time we’d finished lunch, the rain was well and truly chucking it down. Callum was dropped off in kids club for the Chocolate Feast and it was already packed with other very excited kids.
Jon and I popped upstairs to the Planet Bar to carrying on reading our books and watching the rain showers come and go.
We ate in the Main Dining Room tonight as Callum was desperate to join in the Frontiers Easter Egg Hunt that evening. We were taken to our table only to find that our companions for the evening had already started eating so we chose quickly and as I only had a starter and Jon only the soup we soon caught up with them. A pretty good evening though – one couple were from Northwich in Cheshire and the other couple from Somerset or Devon way. In the nicest possible way, this lady reminded me a bit of Mrs Bucket – she wouldn’t stop talking and Jon’s main course was in danger of going cold!
We were losing an hour tonight (again!) so we headed back to the cabin after the meal via Kids Club. There could only have been one choice of film tonight – Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory!
