Not a great sleeping night – wasn’t the iced tea (half glass) or decaf coffee (half cup). And again, you can't blame the bed - I think we even got new sheets today (we might get them every day - it's hard to tell).
I got some pictures of our arrival into Basterre, St. Kitts this morning from our cabin.
I brought Ellen her breakfast this morning – hardboiled
egg, lox, cucumbers, watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew melon. And tea, of course.
Did something quite different this morning – we went to
the Rooftop Garden to see “Mulan” on the big screen. I really liked the movie – I am into kung fu
type movies. This Disney live action
film was quite good – if a little predictable – and the stunt work was, of
course, top flight. We also got very comfy seats in the shade - couldn't ask for any more except maybe for popcorn. I was tempted to get another Pina Collada but it was kind of early for that.
I had salad (lot of good stuff on the salad bar and great
Ranch dressing) and pizza with caramelized onions and goat cheese (as good as
any fancy pizza place). Ellen had cheese pizza and a little bit of tuna salad
and tabbouleh. Lunch was really good. Apex might have one of the best salad bars at sea and their system of dispensing to passengers works so well, I think the salad bar moves faster.
My leg has really been bothering me so I spent time after
lunch setting up another appointment with an orthopedist. Since I have no phone service, we texted back
and forth on the Northshore connect website.
Hoping I was successful in getting a time - this group of docs is so busy that getting an appointment within two months is a miracle. I tried to stress how acute my situation. Some options did come up but they didn't work that well - I'll try to get a better appointment when I get back.
We spent the afternoon in Eden reading and then to the room
to settle down before dinner.
Before we got back, I was able to get a great panoramic shot of St. Kitts.
Tonight, we decided to have dinner in the Oceanview
Café. The pasta station is doing a good
job of labeling their sauces as vegetarian and the chef is very good at making
sure that he keeps it kosher. I had the
spaghetti with marina sauce – it sounds plain but the sauce as really good. I
wasn’t that hungry so I just had some watermelon along with that. A simple but tasty dinner. Ellen had the tilapia.
The theater is hosting the second Production Show, “Tree
of Life”. This is a special effects
heavy show but the music volume was in the goldilocks zone (not too loud and
not too soft). I only recognized two of
the musical numbers (“Fields of Gold”).
The story was hard to follow but the LED effects were amazing – there
was also theatrical snow falling on the audience and when they put rain on the
screen it really felt like it was raining.
It’s an amazing show.
After the show, Lauren have me a great plug for tomorrow's lecture. She has really been supportive of
the Beyond the Podium program.
We were pretty tired so we headed to the comfort of our
room.
Seas are a little rockier as we head back to Ft
Lauderdale.
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