Today marked the start of our fifth week and the end of most people’s fourth week. The cooler weather didn’t seem to help my sinuses so a medically dosed day, with the prospect of most of it indoors not helping too much. A Coldral tablet certainly helped. I slipped up by wearing a sweatshirt first thing, but a huge mistake, as under the large glass windows at the front of the ship, it was anything other than cool, so after Shed, I reverted to a short sleeved shirt.
We had a clash of options as trivia was at the same time as the final ukulele rehearsal for class 1 and class 2 overlapped the Pacific Cruiser’s group photo at 11:30. We opted for trivia and class 2, missing out the photoshoot, but we were able to make lunch, Paula going on ahead whilst I dumped the loan ukuleles and the music in our cabin.
Neither of us were very hungry as 12 noon is way too early for our lunch, so we opted for the toasted pastrami sandwich, (with chips!) and a glass of water or three. That worked well enough and we ended up sitting with Jo and Garry!
The afternoon was still cool and we retired to the cabin. Paula had a long nana nap whilst I tried to keep up with the blog, but needed another Coldral before a 7:30pm meet for a double table photo-shoot. The prime positions on a formal night are commandeered by the ship’s photo staff – naturally, so we invaded the Kai Seafood Bar to use their wall as a backdrop. The staff were very accommodating, considering none of us were eating there.
One of the formal night favourites was jumbo prawns as a starter, but as a main, the famed lobster tail also with prawns and another option being the beef Wellington. Unlike a commercial restaurant when you may have to choose between two mains (or Royal Caribbean where there is a hefty surcharge for the lobster), the joy of cruising is being able to substitute one of them for a starter (or in addition to the starter of course) at no extra cost and sure enough, both of mine arrived at the same time. Delicious.
We skipped dessert as there was a strong push for passengers to go to the premiere performance of the new Princess show – “Bravo”. Although we were disappointed that violinist Chris Watkins wasn’t part of it, the regular ship orchestra was supplemented by the two classical violinists, Fiore; the opera singing duo “Le Stelle”; the party band’s drummer as percussionist and Salomon on keyboard. The regular drummer was thankfully behind a Perspex screen, so the overall sound, which included a fair bit of recorded music, was very impressive. The dancers didn’t have much space in which to move, as the music set was quite dominant, so the real emphasis was on the singing and the music. Despite the warnings to be seated early (we were there 40 minutes early!), there were still seats available, but the show is to be repeated in 2 days’ time anyway and also on the next sector.
Come bed time at 23:15. I was feeling a lot better, so fingers crossed that Hakodate in Japan tomorrow, will be a good stop. The warning is for the possibility of some rain. The sea is still very smooth and the weather overall has been very kind to us. Pretty good for a month.
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