Monday, May 2, 2011

This morning we started out with room service for breakfast and they once again came 10 minutes before time but this time we were awake.  I always order a bowl of apricots and for some reason, they didn't deliver it so I just had a bowl of cereal but we do have a fruit basket in the room so I ate a banana out of that.

We went to the hydrotherapy pool at the spa and enjoyed the pool and ceramic loungers for a little over an hour.  After that we went back to the room to get ready for the day.  I was still a little miffed that I didn't get my apricots so I stopped by the lido and got a bowl of them there.  Then I was happy.  There really wasn't much going on this morning.  We went to the talk about shore excursions but we were late so didn't get to hear much of it so we went to make our donation to the casino.  It was a very unfriendly place this morning.

We decided to go back to the room but stopped by the Neptune Lounge to get a snack and ask for a printout of our bill.  We were walking back to our room looking at our bills trying to see if everything was correct.  I really wasn't paying any attention to where I was going.   When I got to the room my key wouldn't work and I thought well this is great.  I told Mary P to try her key and she started laughing and said this isn't our room.  We are on the wrong floor.  I looked up and we were trying to get into the Rosga's room.  They are on the 7th floor (same floor as the Neptune) and we are on the 5th floor.  Ours is directly below theirs down 2 floors.  They are both the aft wrap around balcony rooms.  After we got back to the room Pat called and said they were  in line at the dining room (30 minutes early) for lunch and asked if we were coming, so we went down there to get in line.  After all we wouldn't want to miss a meal.  I am trying to do better about what I eat on the cruise and I try not to clean my plate even if it is wonderful.

This afternoon they had a special show with Clint Holmes and we wanted to be sure to see him.  We figured it would be crowded because he was so good so we went to the showroom to start a line right after we finished lunch.  The showroom was closed for rehearsals.  Finally Clint came out the door and we figured they were finished with rehearsals so Mary P opened the door and went in so we all followed her.  There were others that followed as well but it was a long time before the opened the doors to all the others.  I have to say I think this show was better than his other 2 shows that we saw the other night.  He said that he would like to be on broadway.  If he goes to broadway, I am going to be there to see him.  That is how good he is!

Dinner was good tonight as usual.  For my appetizer I had orange slices with watermelon salsa.  I thought that was strange but actually pretty good.

The entertainer tonight was a harpist from Paraguay.  He was talented but not really my thing. 

The last thing we did tonight was go to Karaoke.  There were some really good ones and also some really bad ones.  I think we needed a gong to get rid of some of them sooner.  There are quite a few young people on this cruise and they were the ones that were good.  There was one man that went up there and he was just doing his own thing not even singing what was on the screen.  Finally everyone started clapping so he shut up and went and sat down.

Tomorrow they have the cupcake tea where it says they will have 10 different kinds of cupcakes.  I think I will have to go check that out.