Technically Tom starts his day at the gym while I sleep in…
But I say our day starts after that with Bloody Marys. This morning we were surprised by a Bloody Mary bar at our usual morning pub! Yes, please!
Isn’t it gorgeous? 🙂 I never did get used to the lime, though, and always forgot to tell them no thanks.
Then it was off for a sushi-making class! A huge group of ours did it yesterday but we weren’t able to get the same class. It was really fun but I didn’t get to take any pictures during because we all had gloves on and were (obviously) touching everything. So here’s before…
And after…good enough to eat!!
Yes, we all had to wear the silly paper hats.
And then we had drinks at our favorite bar with our favorite bartenders… I can’t remember exactly how we started drinking the Snow White (I think it was vodka, cream, and Bailey’s) but it was really good… And then it morphed into a Toasted Almond with the addition of Amaretto…which I then morphed into an Almond Joy (adding a chocolate drizzle) because what coconut almond drink wouldn’t be better with chocolate?! And sometimes they’d blend them for us so we had adult milkshakes!
I always laughed at people who went on cruises and talked about their awesome bartenders. I always thought it was strange when people said that they “made friends” with their bartender or that their bartender knew them and remembered them. But after being on the ship for four days and going to the same bars over and over, I can totally understand that—James and Ti at The Schooner know what drink to start making when they see me. Sometimes they’d see us coming and start making the same drinks. And they had fun creating our new drinks. And we got to know them over the week. (You’ll see more pics later.)
And then dinner was with a group of 12 at Wonderland. Imaginative cuisine, as the sign says. 🙂
You had to paint the portrait in order to view the menu.
Since we had such a large group, they pretty much just brought out everything—we didn’t have to decide. (Looking back at the menu now, I see a few things we missed.) Most everything was expectedly delicious, but my favorite bite of the night (and actually the entire cruise) was the Shrimp Kataifi (under the FIRE section—and actually the very first photo below). The Liquid Lobster and Tomato Water were also favorites. It was a hell of a lot of food and by the time we got to dessert we could barely eat anything.
I’m sure we went to our bar for a nightcap or met peeps somewhere, but [writing this two weeks later] my mind is a bit hazy plus I have no more pics of the day so who knows. 🙂
That said, this was the art above our bed. Seriously, a lady bug? What are the odds? 🙂
