Day 4: At Sea
We got up just before 8am. It was a restless night, somewhere in the cabin was a squeak/click that was keeping me up. It took me a few hours to go to sleep. It was not really annoying, but just there enough to not be rhythmic.
We dressed and headed to the dining room for breakfast. Angie had apple pancakes and I had Eggs Benedict. After breakfast, I went to listen to the shore excursion overview presentation. It was not all that informative though. The only thing I took away from it was they REALLY want you to know that you have to be on the ship 30 minutes prior to departure. The presentation was mostly a repeat of what was in the shore excursion brochure. I got the feeling that a lot of people do not read the literature and want someone else to tell them what they need to know.
While I was listening to the shore excursion presentation, Angie went to the Emerald Seminar. This presentation was running late, so we skipped the shopping and port talk scheduled next and headed to the behind the scenes kitchen tour. It’s always amazing to see how large the kitchen is and how they prepare food for 1900 people every night.
Behind the scenes in the kitchen
some bunny left this around.
Napkin Designs
that's a lot of pasta
behinds the scenes in the kitchen
behind the scenes in the kitchen
After the tour, I went to play bingo (no winners here. but we did get a 30% deal on spa treatments). I caught the tail end of the explorations speaker. This was a presentation by David Worrall who was from England. He presented information and photos from the ports we are heading to. It gave people a visual idea of what to expect when we get to each port. Angie went to the gym to work out. After the gym and shower, we decided to head up to the Lido deck for lunch. We wandered by the shore excursion deck to book some of our trips. Most of the good ones we wanted to do were sold out. So we ended up on the wait list for a few of the ports.
We saw that they served High Dutch Tea today. We sat at a table with another couple from San Diego. What a small world. After tea, I went to play bingo and Angie went to the world class cocktails presentation. After the game, we rested up for dinner. Tonight was our first formal night.
The pre-Dinner show was a musical show called Stage & Screen. The cast sang songs from popular movies and musicals. After the show we headed to dinner. Before the show, the Captain gave a toast with his senior crew.
After dinner we wandered around the deck and took some pictures of ourselves.
A flying fish lands on deck after dinner.
While walking on the deck we noticed a fish had landed on deck. Yes, it was a flying fish 😉
Our first formal night
angie with drink before dinner.
The formal photographers were still around to take more pictures. We went up to the crows nest bar and had an after dinner drink and listed to a guitar player sing 50’s songs. Afterwared we decided to head back to the cabin for bed.