Weather – 26º, sunny, quite windy
blueberry mango margarita
Steps – 6,426
Humidity – 70%
As sea days go, today was typical. Last night,
when planning what we’d do today (balcony or pool) we decided we’d have to wait
until the morning to see how shady the balcony was. Although we are travelling
north, we don’t know how directly north we will go.
As it turned out, the balcony was a no-go. By
the time we got to the pool it was pretty much full (as least with people’s
stuff occupying chairs) but we found a spot on the second level of the pool
deck. It was very windy up there, so almost a bit chilly, but we had drink
service (and sunglass cleaning service!) and looked directly out at the sea…can’t
look directly at the sea from the pool deck.
The good ol’ game of reserving a pool chair is
alive and well on Regent – it
always is. A combination of there not being enough
chairs in the shade along
bringing chips for the table
with Regent not seeming to care (no different from
any other cruise line, that we’ve found anyway) and you have to arrive early to
find a shady spot. The first sea day we found one not being too early, but
today…nope.
To us that is plain ol’ rude – can’t see how it
is acceptable to ANYONE, but apparently it is. People going to breakfast after
staking their claim is almost acceptable, but there are some who claim chairs
and leave for hours. Or some who occupy 2 chairs, one in the sun and one in
shade. One couple next to us, debated whether they should take their stuff,
they decided they were unlikely comeback to sit, but would leave it just in
case…what a bunch of BS! But…unless Regent cares to do anything, and obviously
they don’t, a-holes will be a-holes.
on his way up to me
Add pool deck chair saving to spraying aerosol sunscreen
all over the world on a windy pool deck, to leaving your phone unattended with
an alarm ringing to using so much perfume I smell you before I see you, to a
host of other infractions I could spend all day listing, we encountered plenty
of boors! Of course, we are never ever rude and always take others into
consideration! Sheesh!
I also did a bit of shopping. We have
panko egg
some
onboard credit and with everything included on Regent we have no expenses to
cover. Chris will get a hair cut, and I’ll spend it in the shop. The Regent
gift shops leave MUCH to be desired – especially this voyage. I’ve come to know
what they tend to carry and had some things in mind that I’d buy. Even many of
those things aren’t there. There’s plenty of perfume though…great…just what people
on here need!
There will be a champagne lunch later in the
cruise that we considered. It would be interesting to taste some expensive champagne,
but we don’t need any extra booze and the champagne we have access to is AOK.
Dinner was in the main dining room again with
yet another set of boors – today was an epic boor day. We were sat (at a table
by the window of course) by a table of 6. The larger the table, the larger the
noise level…just happens – no problem I get that – in fact I’ve been that loud
group, but this table!!! In particular there was one woman who was so loud! We
arrived after them and I hoped they would be done and out of there before we
were…nope. They were having so 
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much fun telling the most hilarious stories that
no one by them found in the least bit funny, but all were able to hear, and they
just stayed and stayed…and drank and drank. One couple said they only wanted to
share one entrée as they don’t generally eat much…ah, I think that’s because
their bellies were full of booze!
The biggest issue I had with this whole
situation was that this was a ‘hosted table’. A hosted table is one where 1 or
2 staff sit with passengers. How on earth members of the senior staff enabled
this for as long as they did is beyond me. Of course they weren’t going to cut
these folks off, but they sure could have bid everyone an early good night.
They did the opposite, calling for more wine!
We chatted with a couple on our way out who
were more annoyed than we were…they mentioned something to the restaurant manager
after we left.
Scenes like that are extremely rare on Regent,
in our experience anyway – and really in life in general. I’m sure people over
consume, but I’m not really sure this was this table’s problem anyway…even if
they were stone cold sober, they’d be loud, the booze just amplified their charm.
The highlight of the dinner was a panko crusted
poached egg in parmasean truffle sauce - OMG, this is the third time I’ve had this and it
won’t be my last. It is on the portion of the menu that’s ‘always available’.
The show was also a bust. It was the violin
player again. The show was titled ‘Ritz Symphony’ I couldn’t for the life of me
imagine what that would mean. It was described as NOT a violin recital…however…that’s
pretty much what it was. Like the first night, it is obvious that she is
talented, but as for song selection, crowd interaction, and show-personship…didn’t
quite hit the mark for us. These things happen…we were glad the folks from the
restaurant were no where to be seen.
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