Position & Weather:
At noon today we are still cruising in the Atlantic with 1430 miles left to sail before reaching Bermuda on Saturday morning. We are now half way from Funchal to Bermuda. Well, in one week our cruises will be over and we will be disembarking in Miami. Sad!! The weather today is not as nice as it was yesterday. We have high overcast clouds with haze and an outside air temperature of 64 degrees. There is more motion in the ocean with wave heights of 6 feet and swells of 5 to 8 feet. We also have a 20 to 25 knot wind today. Captain Serena says the sea conditions tomorrow may be a little worse but not nearly as bad as a few days ago. .
Last Night:
We went the Mariner Lounge again for cocktail hour. Only stayed for half hour as we were going to be dining up in the Italian restaurant, Sette Mari, which does not take reservations. The maitre'd, Sylvester, told me at noon that it fills up within 30 minutes of opening. For some reason it is a very popular dining venue on this cruise. So we went up just prior to its opening at 6:30. There was a line but we got a nice table for the three of us. We had a fantastic waiter from Italy, Tomas. Photo captions describes the dinner.
After dinner we were at the theater entrance when the doors opened at 9:00. We got the same front row seats we had last show. The show, "Broadway in Concert", featured the production cast singers made up of three males singers and three female singers. I really wanted to like them but thought only one of the males had a show quality voice. After liking the young ladies the first show, I thought their voices "screechy" and flat. Actually, the show seemed more like an orchestra pianist concert as music was too loud. Will try sitting in back during their show next show. I need to give them benefit of my doubt before end of cruise critique. Rest of audience is applauding but no standing ovations.
Today:
Up at 7:15 again for Rebecca's room service breakfast which was delivered promptly at 7:30. I got dressed and headed right to the gym for a workout. After it and getting cleaned up, I went up to La Veranda for my breakfast. One of the featured things today was banana & blueberry pancakes. I rarely indulge in pancakes but these looked good so I went for it!! Also had some bacon to wash them down. Yummy!
I then sat down in the atrium on deck 5 to wait for the 10:00 lecture to begin. Palo came by and we had a nice half hour chat. We met Palo on our 2010 world cruise as he was the restaurant manager for it. Now he is manager of restaurant operations for all of Regent's ships and works at the corporate office in Miami but he said he spends half the year going from ship to ship making sure all is going well and helping with training the staff. He is like a quality control guy. He really enjoys this job and does it well. I enjoyed our visit.
At 10 am I attended the guest lecturer, William Lokey, who was speaking on commercial and naval operations by the north and south during the Civil War. It was quite interesting and I enjoyed it. I usually do not go to the theater for these lectures as they are replayed on our suite tv later that day.
I think Rebecca is doing better today as not coughing much anyway. I went to the boutique and bought some "Airborne" to take hoping not to catch what she has.
We went up to La Veranda for lunch at noon as they were featuring salmon in pastry at the carving station. It is one of our favorites. Did not want to eat too much as on tonight's Compass Rose menu is miso marinaded sea bass. Now this IS our favorite entree on Regent. This is always on the menu the night of the Seven Seas Society cocktail party. This party will be taking place at 6:00 pm in the theater.
This afternoon I went to another lecture in the theater on tsunamis by William Lokey. After that stopped by to see if Matilda, the cruise consultant, was successful in booking our cruises on Regent's new ship debuting in February of 2020. Bookings opened up this morning for it. She was able to book us in our first choice of suites. Hooray!! So I made the deposits. So we are now newly booked on the RSSC Splendor from LA to Miami, a 16 night cruise, on March 14, 2020. We are also booked on the Splendor for a 15 night cruise from Miami down through Caribbean and then up to New York City on April 1, 2020. This is a back to back cruise but we will have to go to a hotel in Miami for two nights between the cruises as Regent is hosting a big group of travel agents to see the new ship then. Not real happy that we will have to pack everything up and go to hotel however.
The headliner show later tonight in the theater features a second show by Joe Enock, a comedic magician. We did not go to his first show so may go to this one.
Link to today's photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/P0FOPlFRSxrFxOdF3
At noon today we are still cruising in the Atlantic with 1430 miles left to sail before reaching Bermuda on Saturday morning. We are now half way from Funchal to Bermuda. Well, in one week our cruises will be over and we will be disembarking in Miami. Sad!! The weather today is not as nice as it was yesterday. We have high overcast clouds with haze and an outside air temperature of 64 degrees. There is more motion in the ocean with wave heights of 6 feet and swells of 5 to 8 feet. We also have a 20 to 25 knot wind today. Captain Serena says the sea conditions tomorrow may be a little worse but not nearly as bad as a few days ago. .
Last Night:
We went the Mariner Lounge again for cocktail hour. Only stayed for half hour as we were going to be dining up in the Italian restaurant, Sette Mari, which does not take reservations. The maitre'd, Sylvester, told me at noon that it fills up within 30 minutes of opening. For some reason it is a very popular dining venue on this cruise. So we went up just prior to its opening at 6:30. There was a line but we got a nice table for the three of us. We had a fantastic waiter from Italy, Tomas. Photo captions describes the dinner.
After dinner we were at the theater entrance when the doors opened at 9:00. We got the same front row seats we had last show. The show, "Broadway in Concert", featured the production cast singers made up of three males singers and three female singers. I really wanted to like them but thought only one of the males had a show quality voice. After liking the young ladies the first show, I thought their voices "screechy" and flat. Actually, the show seemed more like an orchestra pianist concert as music was too loud. Will try sitting in back during their show next show. I need to give them benefit of my doubt before end of cruise critique. Rest of audience is applauding but no standing ovations.
Today:
Up at 7:15 again for Rebecca's room service breakfast which was delivered promptly at 7:30. I got dressed and headed right to the gym for a workout. After it and getting cleaned up, I went up to La Veranda for my breakfast. One of the featured things today was banana & blueberry pancakes. I rarely indulge in pancakes but these looked good so I went for it!! Also had some bacon to wash them down. Yummy!
I then sat down in the atrium on deck 5 to wait for the 10:00 lecture to begin. Palo came by and we had a nice half hour chat. We met Palo on our 2010 world cruise as he was the restaurant manager for it. Now he is manager of restaurant operations for all of Regent's ships and works at the corporate office in Miami but he said he spends half the year going from ship to ship making sure all is going well and helping with training the staff. He is like a quality control guy. He really enjoys this job and does it well. I enjoyed our visit.
At 10 am I attended the guest lecturer, William Lokey, who was speaking on commercial and naval operations by the north and south during the Civil War. It was quite interesting and I enjoyed it. I usually do not go to the theater for these lectures as they are replayed on our suite tv later that day.
I think Rebecca is doing better today as not coughing much anyway. I went to the boutique and bought some "Airborne" to take hoping not to catch what she has.
We went up to La Veranda for lunch at noon as they were featuring salmon in pastry at the carving station. It is one of our favorites. Did not want to eat too much as on tonight's Compass Rose menu is miso marinaded sea bass. Now this IS our favorite entree on Regent. This is always on the menu the night of the Seven Seas Society cocktail party. This party will be taking place at 6:00 pm in the theater.
This afternoon I went to another lecture in the theater on tsunamis by William Lokey. After that stopped by to see if Matilda, the cruise consultant, was successful in booking our cruises on Regent's new ship debuting in February of 2020. Bookings opened up this morning for it. She was able to book us in our first choice of suites. Hooray!! So I made the deposits. So we are now newly booked on the RSSC Splendor from LA to Miami, a 16 night cruise, on March 14, 2020. We are also booked on the Splendor for a 15 night cruise from Miami down through Caribbean and then up to New York City on April 1, 2020. This is a back to back cruise but we will have to go to a hotel in Miami for two nights between the cruises as Regent is hosting a big group of travel agents to see the new ship then. Not real happy that we will have to pack everything up and go to hotel however.
The headliner show later tonight in the theater features a second show by Joe Enock, a comedic magician. We did not go to his first show so may go to this one.
Link to today's photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/P0FOPlFRSxrFxOdF3
