Day 2 Fun at Sea

Tuesday was a Fun Day at Sea.  This is one of my favorite things about the cruise.  A whole day to just sit around the decks and relax.  And relax we did.  Ken and I spent about 4 hours on deck reading and soaking up the sun, then went to our room for about a 2 hour nap.  To say we were relaxed is an understatement.

 Also on this day was the formal dinner.  This means that in order for us to eat in the dining room, as opposed to the buffet, we had to get more dressed up than usual.  Some people were in tuxes, some suits, or just button down shirts and slacks.  Which is what my boys did.  Jon and Josh looked so handsome.

 This was actually one of the first times I saw Jon Tuesday.  I made him be in his room by 1:00am the first night on the ship.  After that I told him as long as he behaved he was on his own.  Which meant the boys usually walked into their rooms around 3:00am.  Long after Ken and I were asleep.  They met 3 other guys and 3 girls and hung out with them the entire week.  Just getting them to come to dinner with us was a big deal.

 This night we had prime rib and lobster tails.  DELISH!!!  In fact Ken had one of each and I ended up eating 2 lobster tails.  Dinner always starts with an appetizer.  Jon was great about trying new things.  He had frog legs (gross), alligator fritters (gross) crab cakes (yum) and the ol' stand by spinach artichoke dip.  There was usually about 10 choices for the main course.  Steak, salmon, chicken, you name it, it was on there.  We were stuffed to the gills by the time dinner was over.

 This is Fernando, our waiter.  He was EXCELLENT!!  He made it his mission to make sure we could not get another morsel of food into our stomachs.  We didn't even bother telling him that we didn't want dessert because he brought it out anyway.  He made sure Jon Blaylock had his chocolate melting cake every night.  I actually tried different desserts this week.  I tried Baked Alaska, Cherries Jubilee, then had orange sherbet when I wasn't feeling adventurous.

 After dinner there was a comedy show in the Cole Poter lounge.  Every night they had something to do.

Another super cute towel animal.