Day 6 - April 19 (Thursday)

Since we were at sea all day, Don and I wandered around the ship and just relaxed. Don bought me a beautiful Mystic Topaz necklace and earrings to wear today at dinner.  The clerk put the necklace in an envelope, and when we went back to our stateroom, the gold chain was knotted up. Don tried to remove the knots, but couldn't fix one of them.  The chain was a very thin gold chain (a cheap quality gold chain). I had planned to remove this chain and add my own better quality gold chain.  Well - the hole where the chain goes in was too small for any of my chains.  Since this was my plan, this necklace was of no use to me. I wore the necklace to dinner that night (with the knot in back of my neck), and we took it back to the ship's jewelry store the next morning and got our money back.  Too bad, as the stone was beautiful!

After lunch, a kitchen tour was held. We did see some of the kitchen, but not the main area or storage areas.  I sent a note to the Executive Chef asking if I could have a private tour. He responded that he would arrange it, but it never happened.  I would really liked to have had this tour!

Photo on the right is the sign that is posted in the kitchen.

Following are some photos of the kitchen areas that I did see.

Before dinner, we arranged to have some formal photos taken of our group.  I also took a few photos of our family.

Formal Dinner - Tonight was lobster night in the dining room. As lobster tails were served in a Surf and Turk presentation I ordered two lobster tails and not the small steak.  It was a good thing that I did this, because the steaks were cut too thin and looked overcooked. The lobster tails were good, but slightly overcooked (which toughens the lobsters). Everyone at our table ordered the lobster tails.