Date: Apr 26, 2007 10:13 PM
Subject: Thursday, April 26, 2007
Thursday, April 26, 2007
AT SEA EN ROUTE TO FORT LAUDERDALE DAY IV
It was just an ordinary sea day until this evening. The night before last, we had dinner at Jimbo’s Truck stop. Last night, the other half of the world cruisers had dinner at Jimbo’s and tonight the non full world cruisers, known as the segment cruisers, had dinner at Jimbo’s. The main restaurant, Compass Rose, was open only for all the full world cruisers, tonight. The other restaurants were closed also, except for Signatures, the small French restaurant.
This was billed as an old time gala dinner. If you ask me, they are all old time dinners, given the age of most of the people aboard. But the older people seem to be the only ones with enough time and money to do the long cruises and especially the luxury ones.You may ask, why is this night different then all other nights? Well children, on all other nights you can dine in your room or at any one of four different restaurants. Tonight there is only the one. On other nights you can come to dinner any time you like,
from 6:30 to 9:00 PM. Tonight everyone must eat at 7:00 PM. With everyone coming at once, of course the whole staff was nutz. At least the menu was very limited.Now you may ask, how is tonight’s menu different from all other nights? No you wouldn’t. Who cares? I’m just writing this crap because I just had to set the clocks back another hour and I don’t feel like going to sleep yet and Bobbi is sleeping and the TV would bother her.
Instead of all the usual choices there was only a fruit cup or caviar for an appetizer, one soup, one salad, a sorbet, and either lobster with a half pound shrimp and Dover Sole or filet of beast. No dessert was listed.
Some of the tables had been removed from the center of the restaurant where there was a dance floor. A lady singer sang throughout dinner with some of the ships band. Many of the songs
were even from this century and last instead of the usual music for dead people.After dinner and as soon as they could stop feeding people, they had the waiters parade with Baked Alaska. The captain made a short farewell speech. In it he mentioned that he had not had one of these old time parades in seven years aboard his ships. I mentioned that he shouldn’t have started now.
Back in the ‘60s, when you saw it for the first time, some might have thought it was cute. When you have seen it 500 times, it is no longer cute and I don’t especially like it anyhow. They used to walk around with the stuff on fire and the lights shut off. New regulations don’t allow any fires or cooking in the dinning rooms. So they marched up and back with some sparklers.At least the food was good and we ate at a table with our favorite waiter. We got good service while some others waited. Thank goodness that was the first and last old time gala dinner. Oh yeah. I forgot to mention that they gave
us the good wine tonight. The regular wine is what you would pay about $20 a bottle for at home. Nightly, they also list some very good wines, for which they charge $40 to $80 extra per bottle. This was the only time they included the good stuff. I don’t know very much about wine but this stuff was good.The entertainment tonight was amateur hour with the crew as the entertainers. They did this last year too. It was pretty good and fun to see people who you knew and had seen doing their different
jobs. This year these people were fantastic. Many were far better then any we have seen on Idol. There were a couple of groups of singer/dancers that put on cute skits that were really funny. This was some of the best entertainment we have seen in years.
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