Mar.20 More exploring and AmaLyra embarkation day!

After breakfast, prior to checking out at noon, we decided to walkabout down towards the Seine and checkout some bridges.   We walked across the Pont de la Tournelle to the island .. Ile Saint-Louis and looked at the backside of Notre Dame which showed that restoration work was still in progress on the exterior.

Walked across three more bridges, Pont Saint-Louis, Pont Marie, and the Pont Louis-Philippe.

Did you notice ?   .. another magnificent weather day!   How lucky we are!   We checked out of the hotel and took a taxi to our boat.   The following pics are from Jan and I hanging out of the windows as we rode along the Seine's 'left bank'.

The taxi driver finally found where our boat was docked .. thanks to Jan translating that we were not there .. yet!

We checked-in and were escorted to our cabin.

After freshening up we decided to do some bridge hopping across the Seine as we made our way up towards the Eiffel Tower.   We first came upon a quarter-scale replica of the Statue of Liberty at the southern end of Ile aux Cygnes!  It was donated by Americans in 1889 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution.

We continued to walk towards the Eiffel Tower and crossed a bridge to get a better view.

Once across to the 'right bank' we walked along the ..

Walked across another bridge to get to the 'left bank' and walked over the Statue of Liberty.

It was about 65-deg at this time .. just wonderful!  Once back aboard we headed to the lounge and some refreshment!

Ahhhh .. it seemed liked we walked 3-days of 36-hole rounds!  Many many many steps!   Afterwards we went back to our cabin and emptied our suitcases and backpacks and organised shelves, hanging space, and drawers, and readied ourselves for the staff introductions and safety orientation at six.  At seven we all went to dinner.  My appetizer was baked crab meat & shrimp cake.   Our soup was wild mushroom.  Our main course was slow roasted prime beef sirloin.

Our dessert was .. poppy seed raspberry parfait, pistachio mini muffin, orange sabayon.

Our crew leaders :

At seven, when dinner started, the captain started to turn us around and head downriver towards Andelys.

Wow!  The last three+ days went by in a blur!  So many sights!  Now .. we're in the lap of luxury on two 7-day Ama cruises!  Looking forward to all of the excursions!''