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| made it! |
Steps – 5,928
Humidity – still humid
Sea depth
Morning started with a quick trip to the gym. Didn’t
stay too long, as it was busier than yesterday. As I said yesterday, it’s not
the biggest gym in the world so just a few extra people and it’s packed.
Chris found some of the last spots at the pool
while I showered.
People are out for the 10:30 equator crossing (or crossing the line) ceremony. We didn’t officially cross until around 9PM tonight, but a daytime party for this is better. This is our fifth equator crossing (even that is hard to wrap my mind around!), so we were just onlookers. Basically, those who have never crossed the equator on the sea are invited to
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| King Neptune and his posse |
cross by King Neptune and his wife Amphitrite. The polliwogs (those who are crossing for the first time) are baptised with sea water, kiss a fish, and take a shot (alcoholic and non- avail); they are then turned into shellbacks (those who have crossed the equator at sea. Throughout the half hour Neptune and Amphitrite comment on each of the polliwogs, while music blares.
Its a silly, but fun tradition. Apparently, other cruise lines do it a bit less ‘elegantly’. Callie assured everyone this would be fun and painless…it was,
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| mermaids |
especially for us.
We sat on the sidelines, watched and laughed. A
few staff were also crossing for the first time. These folks were thrown into
the pool, then a whole bunch of staff were in the pool.
Music report during the crossing - started off
with Despasito, followed by Achy Breaky Heart, Get Down on It,
and then we had some Boot Scoot Boogie…it was already a celebration in my
books.
There are always blue drinks passed around – we had one, vodka/blue curaçao. This was after we had a mimosa (Mexico style.) When we were in
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| getting baptized and kissing fish |
Mexico recently, they would serve mimosas in big glasses with ice – at first this seemed weird, but in the end was brilliant! A few days ago, we shared this Mexican brilliance with Robert. When I went to the bar this morning Robert asked me: “mimosas, on ice in highball glasses?” Why yes, Robert, thanks!!
Robert doesn’t know our names, but if he did, I’m
sure he’d call us by them. Regent staff has always been their absolute strongest
link. Sure, there are missteps (like I witnessed at dinner last night, but it
was kinda exacerbated by the dick-head passenger) but for the overwhelming
majority of the time they are top-notch.
This trip, I’ve noticed more name recognition. On day 2 and I ran into Muhamed
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| staff tossed in |
in a random hall…he called me by name, in a random hall, on DAY 2! I mentioned this to Callie when we had dinner. He said some passengers think staff study passenger pictures, he claimed they don’t, I’m not sure I buy it. When the restaurant staff take our orders there are tiny pictures of us on their devices where they put in the order, but still…this is just in the restaurants.
Today’s “Cool by the Pool” was brought to us by
the ship’s sax player… nice chill music.
We (I) decided on lunch at Compass Rose (the main dining room.) It is more relaxed than the buffet. There are less choices, but we probably eat more. We
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| Singapore beer |
have the usual 3 courses but certainly don’t have to. I had one of the best things I’ve eaten on this cruise (or ever anywhere even) – pretzle crusted goat cheese with roasted grapes. I love anything goat cheese, but these…delicious!
The rest of the afternoon was the usual. Napping
and reading is also accompanied by the recorded onboard expert lectures that are
played on the TV. We could go to these in the theatre when they are live, but
we prefer to listen at our leisure in the room.
The magician played another pre-dinner show. I
was going to pass while Chris went, he also passed.
Then it was a drink, a snack, and Wordle while
Kelly played – I stuck with champagne tonight.
Dinner was in a sauna! I have been surprised with how cool the AC in our room
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| I'm proud of us |
can get. Often, in these super hot places, the AC can’t keep up – in the room it certainly does. One place it doesn’t keep up is in the restaurant. WOW, I’m not sure if it’s just where we seem to sit each night (besides being by a window we sit in which ever section they put us) but I have been in a lather each night at dinner. Last night I saw our waiter, mopping his brow…so it’s not just me!
Dominic Ferris was tonight’s show. He is a young, British piano player. We missed his first show and heard it was a good one. I believe that, because
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| I had the branzinno |
tonight he was great. The first 2 thirds of his show were his own selections and the last third was requests. Some of the requests were submitted ahead of the show but about half were shouted out during the show. He played snippets of 22 requests! WOW! And helped us break our Lady in Red drought! Most of the music was oldies, but they were requests, so if that’s what the people want then I’ll listen to Singin’ in the Rain.
The highlight of a day full of highlights, was
placing third in Kelly’s “Name that Tune”. When we heard the theme was “Academy
Award Winning” songs we thought we were doomed to failure…nope. Our small but
mighty team of 2 got 25 out of 30 points. There can be teams of up to 6, but we
didn’t bother teaming up. I’m pretty sure in the end, we wouldn’t have done
better.
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| always available |
When I Wish Upon a Star, we got the song, but not the movie (Pinocchio). Windmills of My Mind, from the Thomas Crown Affair – we missed both. I kicked myself on that one because I actually have this soundtrack, not the original, but the one with the Sting cover version and we’ve watched that move a bunch of times. We also missed Que Sera, Sera, from The Man Who Knew Too Much - got the song, not the movie. We also knew Chim Chim Cher-ee, but not that it was from Mary Poppins.
Funny fact from today…there was a lecture at
the spa this afternoon about “how to lose weight”. I’ll tell you how…stop cruising!!
I included tonight’s menu. One side changes
every day and the other is ‘always available’. You could have the same meal if
you want EVERY night…we don’t, and rarely order off of the always avail side.
Lori – yes, I think you are right! I didn’t
think I was married to a perfectionist.
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