As we sat using wifi, and drinking rum punches, we began to lose any momentum we might have had today. We sat. We interneted. We drank rum. After awhile, G announced he was hungry and ready for lunch, so we walked back on the ship and had pizza for lunch. This was my first pizza of the winter, but the dining room was closed for lunch today and we really didn't feel like eating in the buffet. We are STILL under Code Red Noro precautions...we had been told they would be lifted today; now we're being told tomorrow night. It's been over a week now, and honestly, it's getting a bit tiresome, for everyone.
With all that rum in our systems, we ended up napping after lunch (do you, too, see a beach visit today becoming less and less probable as I relate our day to you?). Finally, we decided we needed to at least take a walk, and so we did, just around the streets of St. John's. Being a Sunday, it was actually a good day for a walk through the town, as traffic wasn't quite as bad. We ended up at Redcliffe Quay and Big Banana wifi (the restaurant was closed today but, bless them, they leave their wifi turned on) and I was able to call Mom using Vonage. By then it was after 4pm and time to return to the ship.
We thought that there would be hors doerves today in Skywalkers, and we thought (because we had a schedule that said so) that the drink of the day was the Breeza Marina and the hors doerves the herbed goat cheese on homemade wheat crackers and bruschetta, but we were wrong on all counts. First, there were still no hors doerves (tomorrow evening, we're now told). Second, the drink of the day was the mojito, not the Breeza Marina. It seems everyone was messed up this cruise: the Patter on embarkation day listed the cruise itinerary with the days of the week off by one. Then our invitation to the Elite Lounge in Skywalkers listing the drinks and hors doerves was also off by one day. See what Code Red Noro does to a ship? Everyone is run ragged and it does show just a bit.
No matter; Rhea gave me a Breeza Marina anyway, for the special price, and we enjoyed a beautiful sunset and sailaway from Antigua up in Skywalkers.
Dinner featured a British Isles menu (the new menus don't have a theme name on them like the old ones did, but it was obvious with items like Stilton and Yorkshire Pudding and Irish Lamb Stew). I just had two Stilton appetizers and my plate of broccoli and spinach and called it dinner.
Afterwards, G headed to a second performance by comedian Miguel Washington, and I opted instead to change into shorts and went up to MUTS to watch football.
Photos 1 to 5: from our walk around St. John's. I particularly like photo 5, with a computer store in a building that probably dates back 300 years.
Photo 6: sunset at sailaway from Antigua
