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The Bollywood to South Beach Voyage - Regent Seven Seas Voyager, October 29-December 18, 2009

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part Thirty-six

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December 16 (Wednesday, Day 49, Cruising the Atlantic Ocean) -

Snookums woke up and worked out and when she came back to the cabin Filbert was ready for breakfast. We emerged from the cabin to find the lower decks decorated for Christmas. The crew only had time to do part of the ship during the night.

Atrium holiday trim

More after the jump . . .

Deck 4 Christmas tree

Observation Lounge Christmas tree

We ate on the outside of LaVeranda with our backs to the ocean (and therefore the sun. Filbert decided that nothing is better than drinking hot tea on a hot, sunny day while sitting in the sun! Snookums couldn’t find a chocolate donut so she tried one with the light brown glaze. Because she knows that cruise ships often make food that isn’t quite “right”, she had a little taste of the light brown glaze before taking a bite of the donut. She figured it would be maple. It was a good thing she did a taste test first since it was peanut butter! She likes peanut butter but not on donuts. The donut with the white glaze had a drizzle of light brown glaze on it and sure enough, that was peanut butter, too. Christiaan, the waiter, saw what was going on and was bound and determined to find her a good donut since he thought a peanut butter donut was disgusting, too. He ended up bringing her two jelly-filled donuts that someone else had special ordered. Snookums doesn’t like jelly-filled donuts but really appreciated Christiaan’s initiative.

After breakfast Snookums and Filbert went shopping and Filbert bought a short sleeve dress shirt. We’ll end up owing $4.99 at the end of our cruise for our purchases since our shipboard credit doesn’t quite cover our bill.

We attended the Captain’s Farewell reception which was immediately followed by the Crew Show. The crew did some of the national dances of the Philippines and Indonesia along with two hip-hop numbers. It was better than some crew shows we’ve seen and not as good as some. As Filbert said, “It didn’t suck.”

Line into the Captain's Farewell Reception

Crew Show:

Philippine hip-hop?

Philippine Michael Jackson?

Philippine stick-dance

We liked the “Housekeeping Dept” basketball jersey

The crew comes together

We met Pat for dinner at 7 and ended up talking until 10:30 while the waiters started setting up Compass Rose for breakfast. Pat is a widow from Ottawa, Canada and she is in most of the workout classes with Snookums. She snorkeled with us and we’ve met a good friend in her.

Formal night:

Entrée menu

Pasta

Chateaubriand

Snookums, Pat, Filbert at formal night/i>

Next: Doughnuts and candy!