A good night’s sleep and even during the night, it was obvious that Paula was much better – thank goodness. With 4 weeks to go tomorrow, hopefully I’ll keep the lurgi at bay. The Vick’s ‘First Defence’ seems to be working well. Up to the buffet a bit later than usual and I decided to stick with my cooked breakfast, but as a sop to dietary and weight-loss considerations, I managed to do without either bacon or the grilled chicken fillet. Darryl and Sue joined us even later still, suitably relieved that Paula seemed OK again.
New boy Jase had a baptism of fire running his first trivia – and on his birthday! We didn’t win and there were some tough, new, questions so the winning score wasn’t too high.
Afterwards, a quick sprint to deck 5 and our new coffee waiter, Dio, got the order spot on again.
Paula still a little off colour but this time, it was a dash for the Immodium rather than Strepsils!
Lunch around 2pm and once again, I managed some very nice fish – grilled grouper and what was advertised as ‘fish fingers’ but really, crumbed and deep fried fish. We sat with dance instructor John and had a quite a long chat (he is normally a woodwork and arts teacher) and he highly recommended the rice pudding. It was delicious, so that is three days on the trot I had something sweet at lunchtime.
We had a leisurely afternoon (nothing new there) and failed to win trivia, but that was fine. We’ll treasure the two wins for ever more.
We accidentally missed the pre-dinner show as we didn’t read the Patter properly, but dinner was Thai night. With chicken satays and also a nice green chicken curry on the menu, the choice was easy enough.
We called in at Jammer’s night club for a bit of a dance, but with us and D & S included, there were still only 4 couples in there.
The movie under the stars at 9:45pm was “Saving Mr Banks” which we’d already seen at the cinema back in Auckland, but lying outside on the open deck (with free popcorn for those that wanted it) on a warm Caribbean evening was a pleasant enough way to spend time. A before, sitting well forward, you are closer to the screen but the noise from the fans and whatever else is going on behind the funnels, tends to swamp the quieter on screen conversations.
The last of our Caribbean stops tomorrow, Bonaire, with a strong Dutch influence. We cancelled our Princess tour for the afternoon so it will just be a wander off and a wander around again.
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