Hello all!
Thursday afternoon/evening (3/8/12), it was decided that we would be leaving Sicily early due to an incoming storm. We decided to leave on Friday afternoon instead of taking the chance of
being stuck in Sicily until Monday or later.
So Friday morning we woke and packed up the rest of our belongings as well as all the robot stuff and headed to the Ferry that would take us back to Malta. It was about a 4 hour bus ride, but we stopped at a small mall and had lunch and Gelato!
n with all of our stuff about an hour and a half before the ferry arrived.
Being dropped off at an empty dock we did wh
at all good, patient tourists do, we played frisbee. Erik supplied a flexible, neon green frisbee and we all took a turn determining how hard it really was to throw and catch a frisbee in the wind. Tim was by far the greatest by playing while carrying all of his luggage.
After a while, a nice man from security informed us that we needed to be on the other side of the dock to check in on foot. We carried all the robotic equipment and our luggage over to the other side and then proceeded to check in and wait inside a small building fo
r the ferry.
On the ferry ride, Tim, Tyler, Billy and Erik played multiple intense games of hearts, while Zoe, Jeff, Brent and I talked about as many topics as we could think of and Jane got hooked into her book on Malta during WWII.
Once in Malta's harbor the ferry took quite a while to dock due to increase speeds in wind. We waited, quite patiently, for a tugboat and proceeded to exit once docked.
Skipping ahead, we checked into our hotel (the Imperial Hotel) and got situated. Jane, Tyler, Brent, Tim, Billy and I went out for a quick dinner at a local cafe/restaurant and the rest went straight to bed. There were really strong winds all night, hints to the impending storm and we are really interested to see the storm as it passes over Malta!
Until later!
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