First evening in Monte Carlo

After our lunch at Le Tip Top, and walking the couple of blocks back to our hotel, we started looking for the place to "register" and get name tags, choose our entertainment and Tuesday evening restaurant for supper, etc.  We'd earlier been told it would be on the ground floor, near the hospitality suite.  We went there and, no registration table.  Nobody there at all, in fact.  Walking back to the elevators, we finally noticed the signs that said, "Best of IBM Registration, rooftop lounge."  So, we finally found it.  We got our nametags (on silly glittery neck badge holders.  Except Greg asked if he could just get the tag and no glittery hanger, and was given a clip instead.  After that, all the guys in line behind us asked for clips instead of glittery hangers  :)  )  I chose a blue one, since my gown for the formal dinner Wednesday night was blue.


We decided to go to the Car Museum and Monaco Old Town and Palace as our entertainment.  The other choices were mostly all booked up since we'd waited til the last minute to choose.  The restaurant choices were also mostly booked up, but we decided on Cafe Paris.


There was a buffet after the long registration line, so we got some food and sat down for a quick bite.  We were mostly exhausted and jet-lagged, having been awake for 30-something hours straight by then.  After we had eaten we went back to our room for a nap.  Dinner was from 6pm to 8pm, but once we were asleep we were out for the night.  

Two seagulls hanging out on the balcony outside our hotel room.  

Ocean shallows underneath our balcony.  No coral or fish or anything alive to be seen.  Wonder why?

View of our balcony with other Monte Carlo hotels in the background.

View of Monte Carlo, including the beach, from our hotel balcony.

Greg on the hotel balcony.  Our guardian seagulls were right there with us.