Super Bowl at Sea

 

Yesterday was all about the Super Bowl!!   Earlier in the cruise we had decided to purchase special seating and food for the game.  All the seating was in the tiers above the pool area they use for Movies Under The Stars, which is usually the place where the show films at night. We checked in at 12:30 and were able to select our table. We chose one that was right in the center with a great view of the screen.

 

It included an assortment of food and two buckets of beer (I think ten cans in total).  Plus specialty cocktails.  They had an Arizona Mule which was Grey Goose, Lemongrass syrup and ginger beer.  And then a red tropical punch which was dark rum, Malibu (coconut rum) with fresh watermelon juice. I think that was to represent the Chiefs.   They must have had one for the Eagles but I never saw it being served. 

We had two dedicated bar waiters who couldn't do enough for you.  As soon as you were almost done with one beer, they were ready to hand you another!!  Food options were potato chips, popcorn, loaded fries and then traditional stadium food.  I wanted to start with some wings so I placed an order.  What they brought was a huge platter of every food they were offering.  Since the table was for up to four people, the huge platter had four cheeseburgers, four hot dogs plus wings and jalapeno poppers. 

So much food!!   We ate the wings, poppers, two burgers and one hot dog.   All very tasty. 

The sun peaked out for most of the first half so it stayed relatively warm.  And they had provided blankets and headbands. But as halftime approached, we needed more and more layers of blankets.  Good thing we had enough blankets for four people. Angie eventually needed to go to the cabin for more reinforcements and added a robe!!!  The people around us were very impressed with her creativity.  

Once the game ended, we headed back to the cabin to regroup for the evening as it was 6PM ship time.  The ship was still rocking quite a bit and we weren't interested in dealing with that in the main dining room.  We we had another snack dinner with some tapas from Vines plus minestrone soup from International Cafe.  We listened to Elua who are the two Hawaiian ambassadors onboard and also a singing duo.  They finished at 8:45 and knowing the ship was going ahead one more hour to match West Coast time, it would be an early night.

I had reported earlier that there was a medical emergency onboard with a guest requiring blood. The guest was stabilized but the captain was still making faster progress to Ensenada to get that person to a hospital.  Yesterday he announced we'd be in Ensenada a day earlier than scheduled. So we expect to dock at 1PM today instead of 9AM tomorrow.  We had a wine tasting excursion that ended up being cancelled.  So we'll stay onboard today.  Angie has some filming to finish and other work.  We will stay overnight in Ensenada and then depart for the San Pedro port in LA tomorrow about 9AM.  Will still arrive as scheduled on Wednesday morning, 2/15.  Then we prepare for the next leg of this west coast adventure.