Day 10 Sailing in the Gulf of Mexico
We slept like babies and woke around 8am, this is quite late for us. Breakfast was at Windjammers, and as I said previously, was a pretty adequate buffet breakfast.
We went for a wander around the ship on the walking track.
Our morning was spent on loungers at one of the pool complexes of which there are 3. One with kids squirty stuff, pools and hot tubs, one for older kids and adults with a big screen, large deep pool and hot tubs and one just for adults with nicer loungers a pool and hot tubs. Each of these areas have bars.
Anyway, we found a spot in the adult and kids pool with the movie Minions playing. Now I know that most of the world have seen this movie but neither of us had. And we didn't really rate it I'm afraid. The sun took a while to come around and we sat there from about 10am until 2 without any sun burn at all. If we had been sitting in NZ for this period of time with sun and some cloud we would have been fried.
Just down in front of us the chefs came out and created 2 huge paella's.They smelt and tasted delicious. What a great way to feed a crowd.
We just sat and people watched and that in its self was entertaining.
The rest of our afternoon was spent at our cabin. Lance had a snooze and I sat on the balcony where the sun was blazing.
Some stats from the ship captain:
There are over 3000 passengers from 32 nations and 1446 crew.
Toilet report: nothing to report as they are sparkling with attendants often in there cleaning.
The evening was the formal dress evening. I had brought a nice dress with me but not very flash. It was recommended that men wear a tux. Lance just had some black pants with a shirt and jacket. Well the dress code that we saw ranged from long ball gowns with sparkly bits and long trains right through to board shorts, tshorts and jandals. So I am glad we didn't take up our luggage space with fancy clothes.
On our way to dinner we went for walk down the promenade and stopped at Vintages for a drink then made our way to Chops for dinner. At this restaurant you have to pay a cover charge of US$35. The meal was okay but no better that Botticelli where there is no cover charge.
Our waiter at Chops was Dante, he was telling us how they work 7 months and then have a couple of months off, he was from the Phillipines. The staff are from all over the place. Not many American but plenty of Mexican, Jamaican and other Caribbean islands.
After dinner we grabbed a drink and waited for the comedian to start at 10:30. Once again he was very good. Although I kept falling asleep.
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