After yesterday with the tenders and all I was expecting a rather quiet day on ship. Which sort of happened and sort of not. This ship has a library on Deck 10. It has a decent selection of books and reference materials along with good lighting and comfortable chairs. The downside is that it is adjacent to the Centrum which means sound carries up and down the atrium with little to silence anything.
I hung out there for a while with headphones for my audiobook (which I figured counted as reading) while I worked on the current Barbara Ana pattern, then headed back to the cabin about the time that I figured our cabin attendant had to be done with everything. With Lev, we are staying out of the main dining room. I did mention that there are a total of 23 children on board – seven of which are toddlers? It does mean that most of the adults have a good tolerance for the occasional escaping happy toddler as they are not being inundated with screaming, running, and fighting children. Anyway – it means the buffet – here named the Ocean Cafe.
Except for this morning when I remembered that my status on Celebrity (earned before the cross-over courtesy from Royal went into effect) means that I can go to the Tuscan Grill in the morning for “coffee time.” That means it isn’t really breakfast but there are lattes, mochas, etc as part of the regular, limited menu. So it is fresh fruit, pastries, and a couple e of lattes for me in the morning…. Exploring further, there is the Spa Cafe on Deck 12 which has a limited stable menu which I figure makes for great lunch. (Fruit, quinoa salad, Udon Noodles,
Lev crashed early, so Shana actually got to get to the theater this cruise….