Today started out with a lazy morning…..the kind we’ve sorely missed for a while.  We took a cab to meet Kat and Ben at the Titanic District on Queens Island where the shipbuilding in Belfast occurs.  This was also the place where the Titanic, the world’s largest passenger ship ever built at the time, was constructed.  Launched from Belfast in May 1911, it spent the next 11 months in sea trials in England.  It’s home port was Liverpool, England.  We all know that it struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage to the USA on April 14, 1912.  Two hours later, it was gone.  As the Irish like to point out over here in a friendly tussle with their friends in England, “Hey, it was fine when it left here.”  We went through the Titanic exhibit on the planning, labor and construction of the vessel, as well as its sinking, emergency calls and the rescue efforts.  Quite sobering.  Afterwards, we had tea in a replica of the Titanic dining room with the Grand Staircase.  Huh……imagine me at an afternoon tea……hold that thought.  I KNOW, right?  Afterwards, a short cab ride back to our hotel to rest up for dinner tonight.