Sea day, sea day

Our first of two sea days. We started with a breakfast in Blu with our friends Melissa and Ryan. It was good, and similar to Luminae, but not as good. They mentioned that they wanted to see a suite, so we invited them to visit us tomorrow around 5.

Next up was the Cruise Critic Connections Party.

At the gathering we met many of our fellow cruisers, including a couple of ladies who were also flying out of New York on Friday. They were on the 9:00 flight from Newark (yes, one of the ones I thought about protecting onto) and it was cancelled. Apparently, they flew into Fort Meyers at 8 am on Saturday morning, and just made the ship. Like me, they'd contemplated booking a back up reservation to Grand Cayman.

Immediately following that, we headed to the casino for the slot pull. We all kicked in 15.00 and loaded it onto a machine. That gave us 5 spins each. The idea is that after everyone spins, you cash out and split it. One alternative is to keep playing until you run out of money, which is what we did. That took until about lunch time, so we headed to Luminae.

During the slot pull we arranged to have dinner at 8 with a couple of our roll call members.

We ordered lunch, and then our friends Danna and Bruce walked in. They were at a two top near but not next to each other. There was an open four top, so we asked someone if we could move, and just did it. That confused things, and our orders were on slightly different timing, but it was all good. I ordered the lamb burger, and Beth decided to try to make the Luminae burger into a grilled cheese sandwich (cheese and the great bacon jam). However, she just asked for it without the beef, so that's what she got. I realized, when I got the burger, that their burgers are just too thick. So, I cut it in half horizontally and ate half that way. Perfect.

After lunch, we brought our computers to Cafe al Bacio, and enjoyed coffee and tea until around 3, then headed to Michaels Clubs. When the butlers arrived to serve the tea, I asked Jo if he could bring 4 wine glasses and some cheese and crackers tomorrow. He assured us he would take care of it.

After a nice tea with some of our cruise critic friends, we decided to head to the room, and then back up the Sky Lounge to watch the ocean.

Following that, we headed to the theater to see Charlie Peachock - a juggler who was a finalist on America's Got Talent. He showed some videos of that and did a bunch of juggling combined with humor. Very entertaining.

After that, we headed to Luminae to meet our friends. We were seating with Serkin, our FWT (favorite Turkish waiter). One of the appetizer was a kale salad that looked great, except for the kale. At home, we use Blue Apron, and I get kale a lot. I know that to make raw kale palatable, I have to massage it a lot. I didn't trust Celebrity to do that, so both Beth and I asked if we could have it with Romaine instead. His comment was that that would be a caesar and we could have the standard one. We explained we wanted the parmesan, lemon, and especially the roasted tomatoes. Somehow, he made that work. I followed with the NY Steak and finished with a pine nut flan. After dinner, Beth and I took a walk, and head back for the night. The plan for tomorrow is to go ashore and just see Georgetown.