I already had to go back and change the day on this post. These sea days are definitely running together. Also, slide to type is beginning to let me down. The air has become too humid for my finger to slide easily on my iPhone screen. Considering where we live, this is an unfamiliar issue for me.
Ok, forget slide to type. I have to go back to hunt and peck. I’m spending more time correcting words than creating them.
Yes, it is the next morning as I type this, on the beautiful but muggy Terrace Deck, which happily has a real name on the Regal, so I don’t have to refer it as the Deck Behind the World Fresh Marketplace, as I did on the Majestic in 2020. It is G’s favorite place on board, and the reason we booked cabins on the back of the ship for all of these cruises. But we were upgraded to midship for this transatlantic, and that hasn’t been bad either, and is certainly closer to the spa for my Enclave visits.
I was up early yesterday, and in The Enclave shortly after it opened at 8am, and then got cleaned up a bit for this cruise’s MTG luncheon, held in Sabatini’s. We have cruised with #2 MTG Andy for years, and our days sailed have us going back and forth with our ranking on a regular basis, but I had never met #1 couple, the Petersons, and it was nice to get an opportunity to talk with them. Captain Fabrizio Maresca chatted with us until 2pm, and it was a most companionable lunch. Captain Maresca confirmed that these lunches are coming to an end, but the captains are less than pleased that their opinions were not solicited in the decision to replace them with cocktail parties so somehow we got lucky on this sea day intensive cruise.
Yes, I had lamb! It was good.
Dessert was amazing. We met pastry chef Lito two days ago, and he said he had something special in store for us.
I had originally sworn off any alcohol yesterday, to quiet my Check Liver Soon alarm, and I don’t know how many glasses of wine I had at the luncheon because, unlike in the other venues on board, the superb waitstaff just keeps refilling and refilling wine glasses and- whoa - let me just say that put an end to my afternoon. But our large balcony was a wonderful place to spend some time now that this cruise has taken on a decidedly Caribbean feeling.
We went to dinner at our table in the Concerto Dining Room not one bit hungry; however, I had been informed that veggie korma would be on the menu and there is always room for korma. We have gotten so close to our next table mates, the Russian American couple, that we are discussing potential plans to do something together on Antigua (in two days! Land ho!). This has been such a friendly, laid back cruise. I needed this, I really did. It’s hard when you frequent the cruisers forums on Facebook and Cruise Critic to remember that nasty keyboard warriors fade into the shadows on actual cruises (or don’t show up at all 😉), and most people are amazingly friendly on board.
Veggie korma. Of course.
I usually forget to take a pic of the dessert menu, but didn’t tonight.
We weren’t sure about tonight’s Princess Theater show, and sat in the “just-in-casiest” of the “just-in-case” seats, but, wow, Tom Sartori blew us away with his country music vocal and instrumental talent. And the largely Texan audience responded in a big way. It basically became a huge singalong at times and we enjoyed it so much that we returned for the 9:30pm performance. We’ve had some wonderful and diverse entertainment on this cruise.
And that (plus Thursday night football. Go Broncos!) is why I didn’t get this post finished last night, as I usually like to do. That’s also why I have no story to share, but I’ll come up with one for tomorrow. I mean tonight. Whenever I pick up my phone again to start on another post.
G lodged a complaint today about the Patter.
He said that they’re wasting all that ink to print a full page color photo on the front page,
but the listing of events needs a magnifying glass to be read.
Can’t say he’s wrong about that.
