After a four year break, I spied a Princess chocolate doughnut in the cabinet at breakfast. Sadly, it wasn’t as nice as what we’d had years ago, being somewhat heavy and only a thin smear of chocolate. The accompanying banana was better – and I never thought I’d ever be writing that.
Men’s Shed meet at 9:30 just happens to be yet another enjoyable time filler on a sea day before morning trivia at 10:30.
On returning to the cabin, Paula really enjoyed the Federer vs Willis tennis match, with the lowly ranked Brit gaining a lot of support from the Wimbledon crowd, who are generally Federer fans. I half watched it as the ukulele class is held in what used to be the nightclub bar, but is now the Legends Sports Bar, with plenty of TVs around the walls. A plucky game by Willis, whilst Salomon handed out no less than 5 new ukulele tunes, though we only murdered, sorry, attacked, two – both favourites of Paula. ‘Wooden Heart’ and ‘Danny Boy’.
Afternoon trivia was at the earlier time of 2:45pm, but Mal and Marie were either looking at an older copy of the daily ness het, the Princess Patter, or were relying on the new Princess App – which was wrong!
A very late lunch/snack in the buffet which for me was a small piece of baked salmon and a piece of crumbed tilapia (another fish not exactly common to many of you) – and a sausage from the terrace grill! C’mon. Surely you didn’t expect me to have turned vegetarian?
As another formal night, this one had the ‘Captain’s Circle’ meet, for returning passengers. As only 129 of the 2000 passengers are newbies and about 1100 are in fact Elite, top of the loyalty programme, this has had to be split into 4 different meets. A drink and if you were lucky, a canape. An opportunity to shake the Captain’s hand and the most travelled passengers honoured, plus 3 door prizes. As the Captain’s Circle host remarked, “Who the heck wants to win a door anyway?...
On to dinner and a regular favourite, lobster with monkfish. As regular readers of my blog will know, by the time the rather small lobster tail has been extricated from its shell, by the expert waiter, there isn’t much left on the plate, so again, as usual, I had it as a starter, followed by the very tender Chateaubriand beef with béarnaise sauce.
The Kai Seafood bar on deck 7 had no less than 9 people dining. The first time we have seen more than 4 people. However, all 9 were crew members. Make of that what you will. It is certainly an option we will happily do without, as neither of us are keen on Japanese food, especially cold/raw.
Afterwards, a few minutes of dancing in the Vista to recorded music, where Paula stunned dance instructor John Graham, by telling him she may be dancing at Blackpool next year, in the Pro-Am.
I managed to read an email on line from Marilyn, but still couldn’t send a reply, other than by writing it on line. So that is yet another day on board without being able to send an email.
That being the case, I composed a very quick message on this blog site just to let people know the situation.
Bed 11:30pm or so, with another day at sea tomorrow, before our first non-Australian port, Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia. And no, we hadn’t heard of it before planning this trip either.
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