Not every day is going to be full of tours and excursions. Well most of them will, but not today. Today was our last day in Marrakech and we wanted to take full advantage of the beautiful Four Seasons hotel, and that's exactly what we did. After leisurely waking up a little after 8 AM we went down to breakfast and had our normal omelets, crepes, and other normal breakfast items.

The alarm went off at 5 AM this morning. And I'll be honest I thought to myself for a good few minutes, why am I getting up so early on vacation? I looked outside on our patio and could see nothing but black. But thirty minutes later Jenn and I dragged ourselves to the lobby to our first of two excursions for the day. First up was a hot air balloon ride. 

Not every tour is going to be a winner. That's just a fact of life. Today, we went on a pretty rough tour. But we won't start there, because the day started really quite nicely. We woke up leisurely a little after 7 AM and went to have our included breakfast at the hotel a little after 8 AM. The Four Seasons has a really nice spread of normal breakfast items (eggs, bread, omelet station, etc.) and so we enjoyed it quite a bit. I started with a cappuccino and had an omelet with some cheese, meats, and some other Moroccan dishes. Jenn had eggs, sausage, potatoes, and pancakes. 

We've reached the first travel day of our nearly three-week-long journey. This morning we were up only a few hours after we arrived back to our hotel last night to go to Linate airport to fly to Marrakech, Morocco. We left our hotel a little before 6 AM and made the fifteen-minute drive via a taxi to the airport. 

When we were driving from the Milan airport to our hotel on the very first day of this trip I saw a billboard advertising trains to Venice. We hadn't thought about what to do on our last day in Milan and realized pretty quickly that we were going to hit all the major stops we wanted to see in the first few days so we booked tickets on the high-speed rail for this morning to Venice. 

I realized when I started reading back on previous trips that I spend a lot of time at the beginning of trips talking about jet lag. Rightfully so, it usually takes us three or four days to fully adjust. For example, this morning I woke up at 2 AM (when we went to bed at 11 PM) and couldn't fall back asleep. Luckily with some caffeine and a beautiful city, we ended up still having an incredible day even with little sleep.