Another sea day! We love sea days!
Breakfast was a mistake. We had been hearing that the Belgian waffles were good, so we went to the Horizon Court to get some. They have two waffle machines for 3600 passengers. The chef makes 4 small waffles at a time and puts them in a steam table next to the pancakes. The syrups and toppings are directly in front of the pancakes and waffles, which means that after a person gets a waffle, they stand there for quite a while putting toppings on it and blocking access to the pancakes and waffles. While you are waiting in line for a chance to get a cooler and cooler waffle, a large man sneaks around from the other side and snatches the last two waffles. While you are waiting for the chef to bring the next 4 waffles from the waffle machine over to the steam table, a lady walks over to him and asks for a waffle. Then she goes over to the stem table and stands there putting toppings on it and three other people pounce on the new waffles.
We finally find a table and somebody comes up right away and serves us coffee. While we are eating and drinking coffee and talking to each other we are interrupted by another server who leans over my cold waffle disconcertingly and asks if we want anything else. We say no thank you. She says, "Orange juice?" We say no thank you. She then says, "Orange juice, coffee, anything else?" We say go away.
We love sea days! Room service breakfast tomorrow.
Sitting in the atrium, watching all the passengers go by and gathering material for my blog:
What not to wear:
Men:
White belts - where do you even buy them?
Checkered shirt with camouflage cargo shorts - did you sneak out of your cabin before your wife saw you?
Fishing vests - on the ship? what do you keep in all those pockets?
Comb Overs - do you think nobody can tell?
Don't comb it over, but DO comb it - please
Belt and suspenders - until now I thought that was just an expression
A cheap t-shirt you bought in the last port
Huge glasses
Women:
A skirt that looks like it was made out of drapery
A clear plastic purse full of used tissues
A cheap t-shirt you bought in the last port
Huge glasses
What TO wear:
A Moose's Tooth t-shirt - always appropriate
We had lunch in Alfredo's, the pizza restaurant. They have expanded their menu. You can now get pasta and antipasto, so we did. With white sangria. The service
was excellent.
Back in the room we discovered that our TV was finally working. Hooray.
The weather is gorgeous. We spend hours sitting on our balcony looking at the endless ocean. We see no other ships and no airplanes today. Just blue, blue water. I skip bridge today. It's too nice on our balcony.
Eventually we go to the atrium and wander around. Then we go to dinner. Afterwards, we saw a short Motown show in the atrium. Since we sitting right in front, one of the female singers flirted with Ken and sang to him and sat on the arm of his chair. The lead singers on this ship are better than average, and they always put on an entertaining show, with or without interacting with the audience.
We love sea days!
Oops! I think I've made that t-shirt-from-last-port fashion mistake!!!
ReplyDeleteMy dad was in his late 20s and already very bald (and combing over) when he looked at himself in the mirror and said, "John, you're not fooling anyone!"
From that day on, he made no attempt to hide his baldness. It's no accident that my sister and I have a particular contempt for comb-overs. We don't remember our father any other way than proudly bald. My sister took this one step farther - she's always had a special yen for Yul Brynner and Sean Connery (either bald or with the rug).