Sea Day

 

Yesterday was our first sea day. We had a late breakfast at 9:30 at Blue Iguana. Their Huevos Rancheros is the best quick service breakfast at sea.

 

I had joined a Facebook group for this cruise. They had set up an event to play a game called Left Right Center. It is a dice game where each die has circlea, a stars, left or right. You start with three dollars. You roll as many dice as you have dollars. No dollars, no dice. The dice tell you what to do on your turn. A circle means you keep your dollar. Star means you put it into the pot in the middle of the table. Left and right means you pass money to your left or right. You keep playing until there is only one person left with money. And they get whatever is in the pot. It was my first time playing and it was very fun. Angie came in second place in our first game. You don't have to play with money, but it makes it more competitive and fun.

 

We met many nice people including Mike and Susie from Arizona. He had recently retired so we had some things in common. We'll be playing another game today.

 

After the games, Angie and I went to Fresh Creations which is a salad bar at the adults only Serenity area. You choose your greens and a large variety of proteins and other items. They crew make it for you which keeps the line moving. The salads were delicious.

 

After lunch we played some movie quote trivia. We got 18 out of 20. Got stumped by Cool Runnings and Wedding Crashers. Then we listened to Ed the acoustic guitar player in Ocean Plaza. He has a good set of crowd favorites including Bad, Bad Leroy Brown and Ring of Fire. It was then time for an afternoon nap. No Nap. No Power. 

 

Angie finished up some work and then we got ready for a pre-dinner cocktail at Pig & Anchor. Andrei made us some very good Bombay Sapphire G&T's. And Danni showed us several card tricks. Some great use of distraction.

 

It was then time for dinner. Tonight was formal night so the menu was a bit elevated. I went with studded mushrooms, shrimp cocktail, four season salad and filet mignon. The mudrooms had a terrific romesco sauce. And the filet exceeded my expectations. I had asked for rare, but the medium rare preparation was very tasty. Dessert was a very tasty key lime mousse. It did have some strange gelatih cubes which were tasteless. 

 

After dinner we listened to the band Cruise Control I'm Ocean Plaza. We had also seen them the prior night. They are a very good band. And so diverse. The lead singers were from Wales and Mexico , the guitariats were from Argentina and Brazil and the drummer also from Argentina. Although they had several repeated songs so I think they need to work on their set list. I understand they have have crowd or personal favorites. But they need to work on their variety. 

 

Today is another sea day. We have LRC at 10AM. Then we'll head to SeaDay Brunch. The afternoon is open at the moment but there will be trivias and live music. Tomorrow we'll be in Puerto Vallarta.