ukintheus
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Thursday, December 5 – At Sea
I was determined to try and stay in bed a bit later this morning seeing as I had been up around 7 am every other day. I successfully made it until about 8 am before my nosiness got the better of me. Another beautiful day out on the seas.
Today we had brunch in Palo scheduled for 10:00 am so we elected to not eat anything at all before we went up there. Judy from Barbados was our server. She’s one of the few “old timers” left up in Palo, and we enjoy seeing her.
We all took a look at the menu to see what we would eat after we had eaten.
Scott got a good selection, his always looks delicious when I am looking at the photos afterwards.
I got a smaller plate, hoping not to get too full before the “real” food arrives.
Mum wanted a tomato juice as they have the “good stuff” in Palo.
Scott was complaining about how bright it was, even with the shades down, so he borrowed Paul’s sunglasses. Um. No. Just, no.
Judy offered us all a special that the chef was serving today because he was excited about going on vacation. I’m sure the part about going on vacation was true! I decided to get it and so did Belinda. It was a soft boiled egg, that had been breaded in panko bread crumbs and then fried with some kind of sauce with truffle oil. It was really good, but between the sauce and the fried egg it was really rich.
Scott had the tomato and onion omelet.
OK, so go back a couple of nights when we were in Cadillac Lounge on Scott’s birthday. After everyone else had left, Scott and I saw someone on the table in front of us get a glass of Veuve Cliquot Rich. I had heard about it, it is the Veuve Cliquot answer to Moet Ice, but I hadn’t had a chance to find it or try it. I figured it you could get it in Cadillac Lounge, they could probably get it in Palo, so I asked Judy. No big surprise that they went out of their way to send someone to get a bottle for us all to share. And here it is all nicely presented in a glass. Deeeelicious!
Hmmm, I’m not sure what Scott got for his main course (maybe the same as me) but I went with the red snapper. Judy said that today it was halibut instead of red snapper but honestly, I am no fish expert so it didn’t matter to me. I was torn between that and the Artichoke Ravioli, so Judy bought one for the table to share. Belinda and I were the only ones to attempt to eat it though.
We rolled on to dessert. Mum said she didn’t want anything, but she agreed to try the tiramisu and the panna cotta that I got. The panna cotta is by far my favorite thing on the dessert buffet but the tiramisu is pretty good as well.
Scott got a few things, but by now we were all stuffed to the brim.
Judy brought Scott a Happy Birthday plate…evidently he has been under an assumed alias the entire cruise. But it was actually a really nice surprise because we had all completely forgotten about it being his birthday anyway!
We had been in Palo for a couple of hours by now so we said goodbye to everyone and wobbled our way back to the cabin. Jude had very rudely left our eviction notice while we were gone. But, we were going to get an extra hour of sleep tonight with the clocks going back an hour.
We were all too exhausted to make it to Movie Tunes Trivia at 1:15 pm but we did rally to get to Movie Quotes Trivia at 2:30 pm.
We got 14 out of 20 which was pretty good considering we looked at each other with blank expressions for most of them!
Scott and Paul had another game of backgammon or three.
Eventually we had to tear them away so that we could go back to the cabins to pack. Scott and I managed to get packed pretty quickly and we put on a movie to chill out for a while. I have no idea what the movie was, looks like The Rock was in it.
Packed and ready to put them outside.
Continued in next post.
I was determined to try and stay in bed a bit later this morning seeing as I had been up around 7 am every other day. I successfully made it until about 8 am before my nosiness got the better of me. Another beautiful day out on the seas.
Today we had brunch in Palo scheduled for 10:00 am so we elected to not eat anything at all before we went up there. Judy from Barbados was our server. She’s one of the few “old timers” left up in Palo, and we enjoy seeing her.
We all took a look at the menu to see what we would eat after we had eaten.
Scott got a good selection, his always looks delicious when I am looking at the photos afterwards.
I got a smaller plate, hoping not to get too full before the “real” food arrives.
Mum wanted a tomato juice as they have the “good stuff” in Palo.
Scott was complaining about how bright it was, even with the shades down, so he borrowed Paul’s sunglasses. Um. No. Just, no.
Judy offered us all a special that the chef was serving today because he was excited about going on vacation. I’m sure the part about going on vacation was true! I decided to get it and so did Belinda. It was a soft boiled egg, that had been breaded in panko bread crumbs and then fried with some kind of sauce with truffle oil. It was really good, but between the sauce and the fried egg it was really rich.
Scott had the tomato and onion omelet.
OK, so go back a couple of nights when we were in Cadillac Lounge on Scott’s birthday. After everyone else had left, Scott and I saw someone on the table in front of us get a glass of Veuve Cliquot Rich. I had heard about it, it is the Veuve Cliquot answer to Moet Ice, but I hadn’t had a chance to find it or try it. I figured it you could get it in Cadillac Lounge, they could probably get it in Palo, so I asked Judy. No big surprise that they went out of their way to send someone to get a bottle for us all to share. And here it is all nicely presented in a glass. Deeeelicious!
Hmmm, I’m not sure what Scott got for his main course (maybe the same as me) but I went with the red snapper. Judy said that today it was halibut instead of red snapper but honestly, I am no fish expert so it didn’t matter to me. I was torn between that and the Artichoke Ravioli, so Judy bought one for the table to share. Belinda and I were the only ones to attempt to eat it though.
We rolled on to dessert. Mum said she didn’t want anything, but she agreed to try the tiramisu and the panna cotta that I got. The panna cotta is by far my favorite thing on the dessert buffet but the tiramisu is pretty good as well.
Scott got a few things, but by now we were all stuffed to the brim.
Judy brought Scott a Happy Birthday plate…evidently he has been under an assumed alias the entire cruise. But it was actually a really nice surprise because we had all completely forgotten about it being his birthday anyway!
We had been in Palo for a couple of hours by now so we said goodbye to everyone and wobbled our way back to the cabin. Jude had very rudely left our eviction notice while we were gone. But, we were going to get an extra hour of sleep tonight with the clocks going back an hour.
We were all too exhausted to make it to Movie Tunes Trivia at 1:15 pm but we did rally to get to Movie Quotes Trivia at 2:30 pm.
We got 14 out of 20 which was pretty good considering we looked at each other with blank expressions for most of them!
Scott and Paul had another game of backgammon or three.
Eventually we had to tear them away so that we could go back to the cabins to pack. Scott and I managed to get packed pretty quickly and we put on a movie to chill out for a while. I have no idea what the movie was, looks like The Rock was in it.
Packed and ready to put them outside.
Continued in next post.