Atlantic Crossing: Day 3

We broke down today!

I don’t mean that in the technical sense. The ship is sailing just fine … at an average speed that will get us to Ft Lauderdale as planned on 15 November.

Rather, Mui and I broke down and purchased a one-device internet package that we will share for the remainder of the crossing. We paid for the package with the adjustments credited to our account for the taxes and fees due us for the port cancelations. No hit to the wallet is a good thing 😊

I do have something out-of-routine to write about. Tonight was our dinner at the Pinnacle Grill. It is one of the restaurants on the ship that has a surcharge. Our reservation was compliments of Guest Services … for the compressor noise we’re having to endure from the mechanical room across the hall from us.

We were seated at a two-top wanna-be in a niche. What I mean by that is that our table was barely separated from the two-tops on either side. No matter, we chatted with the others between courses, which helped pass the time.

The food was excellent … but there was way too much of it. Our appetizers — crab cakes for me and stuffed mushroom caps for Mui … with an order of “clothesline candied bacon” to share — were more the size of an entree we thought. That we shared the bacon, with its interesting presentation, didn’t really make a difference to the fact that I could eat barely half of the baked Alaskan halibut that I ordered as that too was a large portion. As for the size of the dessert orders … well, Mui’s key lime pie was a reasonably sized portion; my “not-so-classic baked Alaska,” on the other hand, could have easily fed four people IMHO.

Good thing I have some writing to do as it will be a while before I have digested the food and can go to bed.

As of noon, distance covered since departing Tenerife: 1,192 NM
As of noon, distance remaining to Ft Lauderdale: 2,260 NMRead more