DAY 31---AT SEA

 

Our position at noon today was sitting offshore Cabo San Lucas.  We stopped here to off load a passenger with a medical issue.  Not sure why we are still here as a boat came out and picked he/she up over a half hour ago.  Moving again now at noon.  They say this will not delay our planned arrival in San Diego on Monday.  Sunny and 85 degrees.

This boat to transfer the person to shore for medical treatment.  Mexico is the last place I would want to be dumped off at.  I take that back as there are MANY places we have been to on cruises in the world that I definitely would not like to be sent to a hospital.

LAST NIGHT:

We both had Ceasar salads with dressing on the side so we could add tabasco to the dressing.  I also had my usual 5 anchovies.  We both had the duck but mine was mostly bones and gristle so I sent it back and ordered the half roasted chicken.  Not as good as usual.

                                      I had to have the chocolate profiteroles for dessert.

                                 This is Angelina delivering table clothes in Compass Rose.

After dinner we stopped and I Viktoria make me this drink, a "Happy Happy".  It has Bailey's, Chambord, Godiva, Kahula, and heavy cream in it.  Low cal for sure!

Most everyone was at the show but we had a nice chat with these two ladies at the bar.  Red head is from Colorado and other is from Australia.

TODAY:

        My alarm went of at 7:15 but I had a hard time getting up.  I slept good but was still tired.  It was still very dark outside when I opened our drapes.  We'll get an extra hour of sleep tonight as setting our clocks back one hour.

        Rebecca did her hour on the treadmill but I did 30 minutes there and then went up to the track on deck 12 to do the other half hour while we had stopped in Cabo.  Pretty warm!

        We went up to La Veranda for lunch.  They were carving brandy glazed country ham.  So I got a bun from the pool grill and made a delicious ham sandwich.

        Rebecca is keeping track of the Tennessee football game this afternoon while doing her nails.  We will take her phone to dinner this evening so we can keep track of the Alabama game.  We cannot stream and watch the games but can see play by play on internet.  We should, however, be able to stream and watch the Dallas Cowboy's game tomorrow as it is televised on CBS and we can stream it from Paramount +.  

        We will definitely be going to tonight's show featuring singer, Mark Preston.  He has performed on some other of our Regent cruises, most recently our world cruise earlier this year.  He has been Phyllis Diller's opening act and was lead singer for "The Lettermen" from 1984 to 1995.  I spoke with Mark not long after he boarded the ship yesterday in Puerto Vallarta.  He will do two shows and leave the ship in LA on Tuesday.

      I picked this up when we were in San Francisco earlier.  Why you ask??  On tonight's menu in Compass Rose is turkey, stuffing, and giblet gravy.  Well, Regent's idea of giblet gravy is a yucky, dark brown liquid.  I wouldn't call it gravy!  I tried when on the world cruise to get what Americans know as turkey gravy, unsuccessfully.  So I will ask them to heat this up and serve it to us tonight.  I might share some with the chef.

        Quite windy this afternoon as it is a 25 kt headwind and we are doing 17 kts so the relative wind is 40+ knots.  So far the ride is good but more swells than past couple of weeks.

Don't think we will get very thirsty.  The Vero bottle on left next to the champagne is water, just in case!

        I asked my "reliable source" if there any passengers isolated with covid.  He said there were none but a recently boarded crew member is in isolation.

        There is a large group of bridge players on this segment.  I asked one of them how many in the group and she thought roughly 100.

        The thing about being on a ship for so long is you don't know what day of the week it is.  Good thing we brought a calendar.  Calendar says tomorrow is Sunday so I may go down for some caviar and eggs benedict in the morning.  We shall have another day at sea tomorrow.  Roslyn is to hit Puerto Vallarta tonight.