We woke up early this morning so
that mom and I could go for a long walk along the river this morning. I actually got up at 3am to see if there were
any pictures worth taking…but then I decided I was insane and I went back to
sleep. Then I woke up at 6am to go up to
the top deck to see if there were any pictures.
There weren’t. But anyway. Kendra was ready to kill me with all of my up
and downs, but the walk was excellent.
First thing in the morning we went
on a walk around the city. Some of the
things we covered, we had already done on Sunday afternoon before the cruise
started. It was great to get a tour
overview of things, however. Lyon is the
second (or third – depending on where you get your info from) biggest city in
France, after Paris. It is where the
Saone and the Rhone rivers meet.
I quite like Lyon. It is a big city, however. The river banks are lovely with great bike
paths, pools, walking paths and little parks.
There is the old part of the city and the new part. The old part of the city is fun because there
are lots of winding streets and great cobblestone. We saw the St. George quarter where there are
theatre puppets called Guignol that a dentist used to perform in order to
convince people to come get their teeth pulled.
We saw a few of the secret tunnels
that were used during the silk trade that was big in Lyon. They were also used during World War II to
escape people as the tunnels often lead back to another street entirely. They were pretty interesting.
One of the squares was cool
because there is a big building that is now in the middle of the square
now. It used to be where men sat on
benches to exchange money. It was a
bank. After sitting in the rain, people
eventually decided to build a building to cover them from the rain when they
were exchange money.
After our morning tour was over,
we went back along the tourist street in the old town to this amazing ice cream
shop. It was an amazing ice cream shop
with crazy flavours – mom had lemon-basil ice cream and I had salted caramel. Kendra and Dad had done boring cherry and
strawberry flavours, but they said they were also excellent.
We decided not to kill Kendra with
walking today, but never the less, we walked over to the shopping streets to
try and do some damage. Nothing stuck,
however, and we went back to the ship for a quick bite to eat before heading
out on an 8km bike tour.
It was kind of funny because I saw
that we were taking 2 hours to bike only 8km – so I knew that we were not going
very far. The paths are fantastic. I want to cycle here more. We went to the zoo. It is in the Parc de la
Tete d’Or – where there is a legend of a golden head being buried in the park
somewhere. The park was fantastic – the
zoo is even free! There is a great, huge
lake in the middle too. I was pretty
impressed.
Mom and I caused some problems
when we got back from the bike tour.
After a small snack we decided that we wanted to take the boat’s bikes
out for a little ride (because our other ride was so lame), but they had already
put the bikes away! Oops. The took 2 of them out for us so that we
could go for our ride. We still had over
an hour before we had to leave, so it was a bit premature to put away the
bikes, so I am glad that we got to go.
Their bikes are super awesome and really adjustable. I was really impressed.
Dinner was great, once again. I am definitely eating and drinking a lot on
this little ship! J
We headed upstairs after dinner to
listen to the music and dance a bit. I
had a mudslide (which the bartender knew as a screaming orgasm) and all of us
danced a bit. The singing/piano duo is
really quite good and knows lots of songs. Even dad got up to dance a couple of
times. Yeah!
It was an excellent day!
Night,
-AJ
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