The brilliant door knob menu was used last night. Contrary to our previous hilarity over how you could order door knobs and where would they store them etc etc etc (you’d have to have been here to appreciate how funny a door knob menu can be!)
We used it wisely and ordered our favourite yogurts, some hot chocolates a muffin and rice bubbles. Yummy. And we ate it on a sun drenched balcony.
“Wonderful” as Christine would say.
We are what you’d call in the zebra lounge – chair dancers it’s where the dance band is but we don’t get up and dance), and as we got back into bed for a lazy day my watch reminded me to walk, so we are now ‘bed walkers’ too.
As we lay here we can hear the sound of the ocean and the music from the upper decks, probably from the pool area. It’s beautifully sunny outside and I’m sure at some stage I’ll be able to roll out of this comfy bed. BUT NOT JUST YET!!
As we lay here just watch the sea go by we notice a plane flying in the same direction as us. People going home or holidays or something else. BLISS.
I’ve only seven days until I’m home so I’m going to experience as much as I can before I resume my normal daily routines.
Managed to prize ourselves out from the beds and made ready to head up for lunch at our favourite eating place in the vague hope that we can forage for something to resemble food and that might satisfy our growing hungers!!
Luckily there were things that resembled food and that we were vaguely familiar with but on tasting there was a moment that we thought yes!? BBBBUT NO! Yet again half if not more of the selections on both plates were discarded. Oh well the fishes that follow this ship are surely as fat as anything if they haven’t choked on it!
3:pm and we made it on time to experience the opera. A trio of musicians with a tenor and mezzo soprano. They were very good. I’ve recorded the entertainment directors voice who can speak at least six languages. But they all sound the same. We checked with our dutchies who speak German and apparently he speaks as bad at German as he does in English. It’s all gobbledygook!!!!
On the way back to have some afternoon tea we stopped to book our tour of portafino which is from the port in Genoa.
Ok. Back to the food. You’d think that sweet things would be good but once again. Whipped cream is pure white and is ‘mock cream’. I sort of liked the little yellow slice thinking it was polenta but christine said it was a custard. Which means it was a grainy custard. How can this be?!?! The wine we ordered in the buffet was a rose but it was bitter (we couldn’t have our beringer by the glass here. However the bright lining on an ever reducing light at the end of the tunnel was the hot chocolate which cost nothing last night in the zebra lounge but €4 in this buffet bar, were still nice.
It’s crazy. Free water in the dining room but the same bottle in the cabin cost €2.90. NOT that we are complaining.
Entertainment in the theatre tonight was really very good. It appeared as if it was a final performance as a lot of the guests will be disembarking tomorrow. The cruise line is owned by an Italian company.
We had a drink with the dutchies, Marijke very kindly gave both Christine and I a little MSC shot glass as a memory for us from the trip from them both. They are such a lovely couple.
We were just about to go to bed when we passed one of the karaoke finalists. Couldn’t stop listening to her and then ended up watching all the other performances. Honestly they should have been on the big stage in the theatre. They were excellent.
That done we retired to bed. We aren’t going into Rome tomorrow so it will be another relaxing day for us.
Night all……
Lady Boomer 