From the title I’m sure you can work out that Sarah is writing today’s blog and that some of it will involve Alan and his huge appetite. He will, undoubtedly rebut what I’ve said in red.
Today was another cruising day so we settled in for what would be a laid back day.
As usual we headed to breakfast first thing (which of course is about 9am). You will know from previous blogs the ongoing saga of Alan and his Swedish pancakes for breakfast; regular serve is 3 and the staff has been growing the order and this morning it hit ridiculous. The plate arrived with 12 on it, as you can see below. No point messing about with multiple orders. The staff are just being efficient.
Alan was having a clumsy morning, firstly going to squeeze a lemon on to his pancakes, only to have it shoot out of his hand and fly partly across the room. Just lucky there was nobody sitting at the table to our left. They would have copped a lemon wedge in their porridge! Then, he went to shake a sugar packet, again to add to his pancakes only to have it land on the floor. Finally, after eating those 12 pancakes he went and got himself a yoghurt only to have it flick the lid contents at him as he pulled it back. Thankfully it landed on the serviette and not on his clean clothes. I’m on holiday. I’m allowed to be clumsy.
After breakfast, Dad wanted a few items that missed the wash yesterday done but, being formal night in the main dining room, everyone was washing and ironing and with only four machines for the entire ship, the washing wasn’t going to happen.
Lunch was had on the pool deck and we were joined by Jamie who is travelling with her mother-in-law whom is keeping a very short leash on her. However, Jamie had spilt water on the table cloth last night whilst sitting with some ‘big shot’ and her mother-in-law was shunning her today.
After lunch, Alan and I retired to the room with ice cream and decided on a movie. Jessica, the ice cream girl, dropped a spoon whilst getting our ice cream. I told her I was having a clumsy day too. She was very happy to know she wasn’t the only one. Following this we hit the pool for what we believe is one of the last times. After tomorrow we will head towards Shanghai and some much cooler weather and there is no chance I’ll get Alan near the pool. It’s getting far too cold for me. The pool temperature was about minus 6 today.
The sunset tonight was lovely and was in the right location where we could watch it from our room.
As previously stated, tonight was formal night in the dining room. We had been invited to a captain’s cocktail party and we decided to skip it which was a great idea. No point going to a formal cocktail party when neither Sarah or I drink. We got to dinner at 7pm and when the cocktail party ended at 7.30 the dining room was inundated with people all at once and, by that time, we’d already had 4 of our 6 course dinner. It’s hard to believe how excited everyone gets about getting in to their tuxedos and ball gowns. We sat away in the corner in our dressy clothes.
Dad opted to see the show tonight but we chose to retire to the room early, mainly so Alan could catch up with the English soccer scores.
Tomorrow morning we dock at Chan May. There really is nothing there but a beach resort 20 minutes away by the ship’s shuttle bus. We are told that illegal taxis frequent the port and to not use them. Instead of taking one of the organised tours (mainly because they are 8 hours long) we are going to try and pick up a legal taxi at the resort that will take us the 90 minutes trip to Hue and take us around the historical town to see the sites. Fingers crossed all works out well for us and that we don’t get lost and/or stranded and miss getting back on the ship by its 6pm departure tomorrow night.
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