Like yesterday, we had no pre-purchased shore excursions. However, we wanted to step off the ship and put our feet on Irish soil for the first time. Instead of getting up at the break of dawn, we decided to sleep "late" (to 8:30 am), and have breakfast at the ship's buffet. This is when we would make our plans for the day.
Again, I didn't sleep that well. But I did find that I could put a small pillow under my back, and that would ease the pain I'd feel when getting up in the morning. (It didn't eliminate the pain, it just made things easier to bear.) We got up around 8:30 am, and were in the buffet by 10:00 am. We figured that we'd get off the ship sometime after 11:00 am, and see "The Titanic Experience", one of the historical venues that had some meaning to me. (Neither of us wanted to walk far today.)
We ended up at the Cobh Heritage Center, less than 100 yards away from the ship, and spent an hour exploring the exhibition of Cobh's maritime history (Criminal Transports and Voluntary Migration to North America and Australia, as well as being a stopping point for Transatlantic Crossings). My legs started to give out after this, so it was back to the ship for the day.
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This would be a night where we'd dress up for dinner. (Don't look for any photographs of me in Mario Mode in this blog) Dinner was OK, but we were both glad to get back to the cabin and get comfortable after dinner.
