Day 7 - Tuesday Jan 03 At Sea

Day 7 photos

position: 9:58:17 N latitude x 84.49.50 W longitude
(143 miles Sw of Managua, Nicaragua or or about 640 SE of Huatulco, our next stop)
temperature: 80F and 79% humidity at 7:00 am - sunny

This is a sea day. Tonight is another formal night. We have an AMEX Cocktail Reception at 11:30am in the observation lounge, and a Seven Seas Society at 6:30 pm. We also have a reservation for a shared table in Latitudes this evening at 7. This will be the first resevation resturant that we have tried.

This turned out to be a pretty lazy day. We did work a little to get two loads of laundry done, which entailed a learning curve on exactly what buttons needed to be hit to make the washing machine work. (Still not clear we know.) Laundry is a blood sport on this ship. We went to the Amex cocktail party and it was not much. They had free drinks which would have been a perk usually, but on this cruise, all our drinks are included anyway. Clay asked what beers they had and was told Heineken. He had one. We lunch in Compass Rose and forget the camera. Clay asked what beers they had and asked if they had weissebier and the guy told him maybe in the crew lounge but he couldn't get one. Clay asked what other beers they had. Heineken. Nothing else? Finally, the guy gave a rapid short list with Amstel, Amstel Light and ending in Tiger. Clay did not catch a word of it, but Debbie knew he had had Tiger in Singapore and liked it, so she piped up. Debbie ordered a Coke. The guy asked for our suite number and returned with a chit for Clay to sign. We told him we were on the WC and he apologized and took the chit away. In the afternoon, Clay played blackjack for the second time and won what he lost the day before, and now is actually ahead by about $40. There was one other guy who played the same table for the whole two hours. He was drinking coffee, and giving the coffee guy $25 tips on occasion. (Clay offered to get the guy coffee anytime he wanted it!) Debbie read and napped, took exercise classes in the morning and the afternoon.

It turned out the Seven Seas Reception conflicted with our Latitudes reservation. And since Compass Rose had a strong menu for the evening, we opted to cancel the Latitudes reservation to make it to the Seven Seas Reception and eat at Compass Rose. The reception was good with huge shrimp, caviar, little pizzettes, and champagne. They honored the people on board who had sailed more tham 300 nights with Radisson. The were 5 individuals/couples honored. The leader was a woman with 550+ nights. We received with our invitation little goldtoned lyre-shaped pins (Radisson logos), in blue suede pouches, the night before to wear to the party.

Clay got signal back on his Blackberry to his relief. We skipped the Chocoholic Tea this afternoon. Debbie felt we should pace ourselves and we would probably have many more opportunities for this kind of event. Hope so. It turned out that dinner was our big event of the day. Clay decided to order the menu degustation which is 5 courses and Debbie ordered random courses to match number. Bob Graham sat at the table next to ours. Clay drank both white and red wine. After dinner we got a DVD to watch and went to bed with it. Rough seas overnight.

Day 7 photos