Today the boat docked at Ensenada... or so we were told,. although we really never got off of the ship to find out for sure. Instead, after breakfast, we grabbed books and towels and sun block and went up to the pool deck where we proceeded to lay out on lounge chairs, read, chat, and drink daiquiris and pina coladas. (Good thing they're cheaper without alcohol... gave us an excuse to order more!) We ate lunch when we were hungry from the nearby Lido Grill or Paris restaurant, but other then that. we didn’t really move for the next five hours. Sweet....
Around 4:30, we headed back to our cabin (M156) to compare sun burns. Gina has a skinny stripe right on her lower belly along with the edge of her bathing suit. I have some random spots here and there that the sun block just missed - the insides of my ankles, my right side under my arm 9I guess I was holding my book up, and a little patch on my belly. Poor Jessica, though, has a pretty painful burn on her thighs, and a little on her belly.
yes, we reapplied. Apparently not often enough. Also, although that new spray on sunscreen looks easy, the jury's still out on whether it works as well as the cream stuff, over all....
After showers and phone calls, we went up to the photo gallery, found all of the pictures we took last night, and chose 5 to purchase. The lines were super long, however, so we put them in a corner of one of the racks to get them when we returned. Then we rushed off to dinner.
I believe our waiter sort of avoids us because of the other people at our table, which sort of sucks,. They are rather rude. For example, the "grownups" showed up 15 minutes late again. Around 8:30, one of the kids(the daughter) shows up. Around 8:45 2 more show up (the 16 year old little shit sitting down next to me and saying, "Hi, I'm sexy, what's your name?" Um, ha ha...?) and the hyper little girl who is the daughter's friend. (the other boy never showed up at all)
These two (the friend and the boy) order dinner, and then decide to just leave. Um, rude much? And the grownups didn't say anything about it! (I did - 'Um, your leaving? Didn't you order food?") I also thought it was odd that the 16 year old boy was spending so much time with the 11 year old girl - they weren't siblings. Strange.
Anyways, dinner was yummy overall (The couple had requested escargot, which was served on the first night, and they brought out 6 double bowls of the stuff...we had a few but it was way too much.) I had a chicken quesadilla, won-ton soup, and sweet and sour shrimp. (I had also ordered a tomato and mozzarella dish, but in the confusion of the escargot and the kids coming late and then leaving, my tomato dish never came out. )
Gina ordered the quesadilla, lobster bisque, a salad (which never came out) and chicken pasta. She didn’t really like the pasta, but she had some of my shrimp, and also, the girl who left had ordered shrimp so Gina had some of that since they would just have thrown the food away anyway.
Jessica had the tomato/mozzarella, the lobster bisque, and filet mignon.
Dinners just seem so chaotic with this group. It doesn't feel, to me, as special when people don't take it seriously or respect the other people. Showing up late, taking off after ordering food, leaving a mess, ordering about the waiter, impolite manners... it is a bit frustrating at times. I wouldn't say its awful... at times it is funny, but it does sorry of take a bit of the special feeling out of going to such a nice dinner when people are behaving as though it were chucky cheese on free pizza night.
After dinner, we went back to buy our pictures... but they were gone! Apparently the staff moved pictures around and separated our stack.... but we looked through all of the pictures and couldn't find any of them except the top one!!! We both it but we're kind of bummed because there were some really good ones. The crew said they might show up later or they could look for them on the computers.
We took a few more pictures. There is one photographer who is very cool. He does a good job of really making people relax. I liked him.
At 10:30, we went to see the show. It was cool close-up magic and then a comedian.
(Another problem with having the late dining time - by the time your show is over its 11:00! It bed nice to have the early dining time and then a show at 8:00 so that you could hang out in one of the lunges or the sing along piano bar for a while - not to self for future cruises.)
We're back in our room - the girls are reading... I love fellow book worms.
Night!
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