I was a little slow to get moving this morning and didn’t join G at breakfast in the Botticelli Dining Room. Instead, I eventually got coffee and sat on the very back of the Terrace Deck with my AirPods screwed into my ears listening to mellow piano music and watching the sun glisten like diamonds on the water with the majestic mountains in the background and generally grooving on life when a fellow passenger, with every other table empty, chose to join me and start commenting on how I looked nice and my smile and…first, no thank you, second, can’t you see this big ole wedding ring on my left hand and third, you just screwed up my peaceful reverie here. I finished my coffee and moved on…quickly.
I continue to be impressed with the Emerald Princess’s World Fresh Marketplace. There seems to be so many options in a smaller, more easily accessible space than on the Royal Class ships. There, I’m constantly walking up to the Bistro to find one item, then to the Pastry Shop, then to the back area. Much easier here. And healthy choices too: chia seed sludge to add to yogurt or cereal or muesli or oatmeal, veggie smoothies and fruit smoothies.
As soon as open tender was called, G and I went ashore just for our daily walk and after a couple of hours ended up at the bar on the pier where we started with margaritas and eventually added chips and salsa and then lunch and maybe more margaritas while waiting for the line for the tender back to the ship to die down. We were kept highly entertained by the hundreds of pelicans and laughed about how they would never win a medal in competitive diving because they didn’t enter the water with any kind of grace at all, making a huge splash every time they dive bombed for fish. And then we wondered about what percentage of time they actually caught a fish because they seemed to do it over and over and over and should have been stuffed to the gills.
Other entertainment included watching small boats used for excursions being taken out of the water. Some really nice vehicles (Suburbans, 4x4 pickups, all with California license plates) would back their trailers down the boat ramp, hook up their boat and pull away. Then there was a vintage Jeep SUV (1980s?) whose front tires were actually lifting up as it tried to get started up the ramp. We were mesmerized.
Finally, there was no line at all and we took a tender back to the Emerald Princess about 4pm, changed for the evening and went to both the Elite Lounge and dinner not a bit hungry. We each had one course and were on the Promenade Deck for sunset as we sailed from Loreto.
With tonight’s Princess Theater entertainment being a ventriloquist, we instead went to the Explorers Lounge for the first time for a GPS Sing Along trivia. We imagined it would be songs with locations in the lyrics or titles, but it wasn’t that at all. It was a GPS-type voice reading lyrics and we had to guess the song and then sing it, karaoke style. Not our thing (at all) but some people seemed to enjoy it. That’s okay…we move clocks ahead an hour tonight and decided to make it an early evening.
