Day 4, Sea Day

Hello everyone and again thanks for following along. Time for my next installment of my cruise review/blog. I don’t have a lot for this day so it may be a shorter post but I do hope you enjoy it and if you have any questions feel free to ask.

So the next day was March 17th which was St. Patricks day. Now at this point of the cruise I had finally got my body out of my morning routine. When I am at home I get up at 7 am everyday to feed the dogs or else they will start to bark at our bedroom door. So I slept in quite a bit today.

I got up around 930. I remember we had missed breakfast with everyone else but that was fine. I did run up and get something for my wife since she is a breakfast person not like me. I also ran into my sister and we decided we would try the gastrobar today.

So we headed to the gastrobar around 11 as they were supposed to open then because it was St Patrick’s day and a sea day. We sat there waiting and as we waited Jordan decided to play with the hats on the tables.

Here is Jordan and I wearing the hats. He really enjoyed them.

As Jeniffer, Jordan, Grandma, and Me were waiting I ended up wandering off to find the rest of the group. I was gone for about half an hour before I found everyone and got them down to the gastrobar.

When we got there my sister informed us that there had been an incident in the kitchen and they were delayed opening. They told her they would be open at noon. At this time it was about ten to twelve.

We waited and waited and waited and watched as the waiters went by but none stopped to talked to us. Finally my sister asked one of them if we could order and the waitress was surprised, thinking that we were just waiting here and not wanting to order. So we got our drink orders in and ordered our food.

Here is a copy of the menu.

As we waited we took some more pictures.

Jordan and Jacqueline.

My mother and Sabrina.

And Sabrina and Jordan.

We had to wait for around another forty five minutes before our food finally came out. This is where things get interesting.

Jeniffer had the truffled grilled cheese. I did taste it and it was good.

My grandmother had an order of us the fries and was told that they were so big she would have to share. If you look at the above picture her order was a little larger then this but not by much.

I had the grilled local sausages. Each sausage was a different flavour and they were all good. The mustard complimented them nicely. The potato salad was alright. I didn’t get my pretzel bun but that was fine.

So this is where it gets interested. My wife and mother had the Guinness and steak pie. Now if you look at the picture you will see that there is no puff pastry on this dish or if you look really close there are no potatoes like the description says. My wife at hers as she was hungry and said it was good. My mother on the other hand sent it back complaining that this was a stew not steak pie.

As my mother sent it back the waitress was very apologetic and told us to hold on as she was going to get the head chief for her. At this time the rest of the family took off on us. As Jordan hadn’t eaten along with Sabrina my sister took them up to bistro on five. My grandmother had left earlier and my wife went back to the room. This left me with my mother to deal with the chief.

When the chief came out my mother explained what the problem was and that she wasn’t blaming the waitress or anything but this is not what she was expecting. THe chief really didn’t understand what she was talking about and couldn’t explain to her why she got what she got. The waitress stayed there and actually laid into him to because she was not happy about wearing the St Patrick’s hat that she had to.

So it ended up that they were going to have my mother back so that she could make it right for her. She also said that the rest of the family were not allowed to come back because we had eaten our food. I know she wasn’t trying to be mean but I found it funny.

After this my mother headed up to bistro on five to get some food with the kids.

So I don’t have any pictures between now and dinner but I kind of remember what happened.

I remember going up to the room for a little bit and going back out for a walk. I went down to the shops to check out the $10 madness sale. I remember going down to look at it while we waited for lunch but it was swamped.

There was nothing grabbing my attention but I did run into the rest of the family. After looking we went up to the Café al Bacio and met up with grandma there. We read the Canadian news and had some snacks and drinks.

After this I met up with my wife and we went swimming with the kids in the solarium. We did this quite a bit on the trip. I am not a huge swimmer but I do like the solarium as its a big more quite and relaxed. I really liked it around five as a lot people would go and get ready for dinner so you were pretty much alone. Now there was an incident in the solarium with one of the family but I am not going to talk about it here and we will see down the line.

After swimming we went back to room, had our cheese plate, relaxed, may have napped, and watched TV before we had to get ready for dinner.

I should mention we always do the late seating for dinner. We all prefer it and I know my wife and I do as we work retail and a lot of times we don’t get dinner to late anyways. So here is the menu for the night.

Lots of interesting items on the menu tonight. So lets start with the pictures.

So my grandmother and few others at the table had the caprese salad. Similar to what she had the night before but made properly.

Sabrina had her usual Caesar salad.

My wife had the butternut squash soup. She said it was delicious.

I had the Pasta Fagioli soup. One of my favourites and this was great.

So my grandmother had the seared Branzino. She did not like it one bit. Had one bite and sent it back for something else.

My wife had the grilled NY steak. Always a good choice.

My sister had the toasted Israeli couscous cake. She was very surprised and liked it.

Of course me being daring had the steak and chips. Steak was a little tough but still good. The Bernaise sauce was great.

And back to my grandmother, she got the salmon instead. She really liked it

I believe Jordan had a burger again for dinner. The staff in the dinning room were very good and getting him what he wanted since he is a picky eater.

Now comes the desserts.

Sabrina and my wife had the strawberry shortcake.

I believe this was some kind of chocolate mouse. I know Jordan and Jeniffer had it.

This was the peach cobbler that I had. The peach taste was fantastic. Some of the best I have had.

And I spoiled my self and had the no sugar added chocolate ice cream also.

So after dinner, I could be wrong but I think it was this night, my mother and grandmother went back to there room, Jordan went to watch tv, and Jacqueline, Jeniffer, Sabrina, and I grabbed some drinks from Happy in the buffet and then went to the card room to play Cards Against Humanity. We were there for a while playing and then decided to call it a night as we had to be up early for our excursions.

So next up will be Puerto Limon, Costa Rica. Thanks for following along and now that I am feeling much better from my cold I will be updating a bit more frequent.

Also if anyone is interested I do have the Celebrity Today from the trip so if anyone wants to see them let me know. Also any questions feel free to ask.