Our position today is sailing off the coast of Venezuela enroute to St Lucia. Another overcast day and 77 degrees.
We are still rocking today and maybe a little more than yesterday.
LAST EVENING
We had our cocktail hour in Meridian Lounge then went up to the little bar at the entrance to Prime 7. This is Javid the bartender there. We have sailed with him before also. We had been invited by the ship's General Manager, Franck Galzy, to meet him at 7pm for dinner. He was 15 minutes late but no problem as we visited with Javid.
We had the same table that we had when we dined with Gudrun a few day ago. Like that table #21.
We have known Franck since our first world cruise in 2010. We had not cruised with him for a few years so had a lot to catch up on. I mentioned that we need to be first off the ship when we arrive at the Port of Miami as our flight is to depart at 10:35. He said he will make it happen.
I had this mojo-marinated double cut pork rib chop. Unfortunately, I did not like it. Overcooked, very dry, and tough.
Rebecca had this creole-style jumbo shrimp in a spicy tomato-onion gravy. She also did not like it. The shrimp were over cooked and it was not spicy. In the future we will stick with the beef filets as they are always very good.
We asked for a bottle of our Rombauer chardonnay to start the dinner off and Franck had ordered this nice cabernet.
I had to have this popcorn Sundae.
Rebecca and Franck had the key lime pie.
TODAY
We got an extra hour of sleep as the clocks moved back an hour during the night. So now we are just 2 hours ahead of Dallas. This is another day as sea in the North Atlantic ocean. The coast of Venezuela is 300 miles away.
We have been invited to a Seven Seas Society top tier party at 9:30 this morning up in the Observation Lounge. We are not attending as that is when Rebecca goes to hit the treadmill.
At 10:30 I went to a cooking demonstration by our Executive Chef, John Pugh. I got a front row seat for it.
He was preparing three Caribbean dishes that I have never heard of.
He had an induction stove for his cooking. I love induction as we had an induction cooktop in our Durango house. It's neat as they have overhead camera on the stage.
Chef John warned us that he was not a pastry chef. The cake looked very good after he finished icing it.
Chef John is quite a showman as he had some funny comments. Loved the demonstration.
Lunch up in La Veranda at noon. My usual starters: anchovies, blu cheese, mussels, and shrimp.
I had stirred in some chili flakes before taking the photo of my spaghetti bolognese. It was very good.
During lunch I spoke with Kas, our wine sommelier in CR. We have more ship board credit to use so ordered this red wine blend for dinner tonight. We will also have Rombauer chardonnay. He asked how we liked Prime 7 last night so I told him it was not very good. Well, shortly after returning to our suite I got a phone call from Peter, maitre d in Prime 7. He wanted to apologize for our dinner as Kas told him we did not care for the entrees. I told Peter not to worry as we are happy campers!
At 2pm I went to the theater to hear Ed Klein's speak on the future mission to Mars. It was interesting but he is not a very good speaker.
Our ride this afternoon is a little worse. I was able to do 4 laps around our deck hallway this morning but gave up after 2 laps this afternoon.
This is tonight's menu in Compass Rose. We get the menu of the following night's menu delivered to our door by 5pm the night before. This gives us time to make special orders 24 hours prior. We did not care for this menu and ordered veal osso buco with polenta for tonight.
We got a call from our cruise director, Natalia, this morning asking if she could join us tonight for dinner. She offered Chartreuse (the French restaurant) but I told her we don't care for French food. I told her we had ordered special entrees in Compass Rose so she will meet us there.
Tonight's show is featuring the ship's orchestra pianist. May sit in the back for a quick escape OR not even go.
After 3 sea days we will be glad to be docked tomorrow in St Lucia. It will be Sunday so the good thing is it's champagne and caviar for breakfast. The bad thing is stores will be closed. There is a pharmacy I usually go to there but it will probably be closed.
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