Day 1: first "fun" day at sea
Trivia team of awesome competes for coveted plastic ship: unfortunately, we were 1 question shy of tying for first. Damn you U.S. history!
Wine tasting = awesome! Well, I didn't much like any of the wines at first, 
but the expert explained that food makes a big difference. To prove his point, he had us bite into a lime, then taste this Riesling - OMG, what a difference! It was really good. Then we sugared our lime and tried the savignon blanc - I could tell a difference, but it wasn't as pronounced. We also paired some reds with cheese. Overall, totally worth the $10. And for the record, we brought our own bottles on (you can!) to have at dinner, and the bottle of white I picked out (Thanks to Chelsea!) actually ended up being the Matre 'D's recommended wine on the last night. WOO!! I also found out that extra dry champagne = less fruity, brut (aka dry) = more fruity. And because we're awesome, we went to lunch in the dining room at 12 before our tasting at 12:30. They tried to trick us out of it, but we won - except dessert.
To prove we can b
e classy, Meredith and I went to tea, despite the fact that it was served in the very tacky "neon bar". With the tea they had cool foods like scones, cucumber sandwiches and strawberries and cream (yum!). Later that evening was the captain's party - while the captain could not join us, we did drink his free drinks in his honor. Amature cruisers might just go to the one that corresponds with his/her dinner time, like you're "supposed to", but we knew better - so we doubled up. I think by the end of the first one we were all pretty...tipsy. Mark and I ended up dancing on the big stage by ourselves. They wanted people to dance, but we were t
he only ones who actually did. We all took a nap between the first and second captain's party. It was formal night for dinner, and even on day 2 I was starting to feel like "mah dress don fiht." Luckily, those seams held out for the night! We ended up in bed pretty early that night as we had a very early day in Progreso the next day!
but the expert explained that food makes a big difference. To prove his point, he had us bite into a lime, then taste this Riesling - OMG, what a difference! It was really good. Then we sugared our lime and tried the savignon blanc - I could tell a difference, but it wasn't as pronounced. We also paired some reds with cheese. Overall, totally worth the $10. And for the record, we brought our own bottles on (you can!) to have at dinner, and the bottle of white I picked out (Thanks to Chelsea!) actually ended up being the Matre 'D's recommended wine on the last night. WOO!! I also found out that extra dry champagne = less fruity, brut (aka dry) = more fruity. And because we're awesome, we went to lunch in the dining room at 12 before our tasting at 12:30. They tried to trick us out of it, but we won - except dessert.To prove we can b
e classy, Meredith and I went to tea, despite the fact that it was served in the very tacky "neon bar". With the tea they had cool foods like scones, cucumber sandwiches and strawberries and cream (yum!). Later that evening was the captain's party - while the captain could not join us, we did drink his free drinks in his honor. Amature cruisers might just go to the one that corresponds with his/her dinner time, like you're "supposed to", but we knew better - so we doubled up. I think by the end of the first one we were all pretty...tipsy. Mark and I ended up dancing on the big stage by ourselves. They wanted people to dance, but we were t
he only ones who actually did. We all took a nap between the first and second captain's party. It was formal night for dinner, and even on day 2 I was starting to feel like "mah dress don fiht." Luckily, those seams held out for the night! We ended up in bed pretty early that night as we had a very early day in Progreso the next day!
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