Sunday, January 26, 2025

January 1, 2026 – At Sea – Coast of Mexico – Partly Cloudy – 81F

HAPPY NEW YEAR – I hope

Still up early (what else) to enjoy the first sunrise of the new year (and it was beautiful)

and enjoyed a nice breakfast (inside – a bit cool on the veranda and they don’t open at the same time as the Windows Café.  Continuing my streak with the pancake combo. 

Midmorning, we went to the Discoveries Restaurant for the New Year’s Day Brunch.  

Yes, that is a delicious Bloody Mary to start of 2025 (seems appropriate considering).  I had an omelet with onions, tomatoes, and cheddar cheese.  The omelet was good and even though the place was crowded, we found a table.  This will serve as lunch today. 

I am off today and I am not planning to go to the other two lectures today.  Instead, we are going to be on the open deck – Ellen reading and me, trying to find another book.  I have cleaned out the libraries of my favorite authors and am trying to find a new author to bide me over until my people can write new books.  Tried several options but did not feel the hook so I sent them back to the library.  Oh, and I did get another iconic railing photo.

We had skipped a couple of Chanukah Candle lightings (we simply forgot) but we went yesterday, and tonight, we are back in the Cabaret Lounge for the eighth candle.  The crowd stabilized over the eight days and the attendance was OK.  Rabbi Gans did a good job over the holiday but I think we could have snuck in some new songs. 

Tonight’s buffet in the Windows Café is my favorite one (confirmed by the last cruise), “The Taste of Italy”.  I got to the pasta station first to ensure that no meat got into my pasta and ordered spaghetti with tomato sauce.  The chef made this in a way I’ve never seen before.  The pasta went into the pan and then the tomatoes and onions and then the sauce – no sautéing. There wasn’t enough tomato sauce and some confusion where the sauce was so my pasta was very sauce-light and not nearly as good as the version I had last cruise. And another weird thing: I was first in line and a nice woman was right behind me and she ordered the exact same thing.  The chef added more ingredients to my order to make a double order and then split it into each of our plates.  Also, there was no grated parmesan cheese so the staff tried to crush the flakes into some kind of grated cheese.

I also had the freshly made Caprese Salad along with focaccia with olive oil and balsamic vinegar (really good).  A pretty good cannoli finished off the meal.  A little wonky but still the best of the “Tastes of” options. 

The ship is really smoking to get to Cabo on time.

We went to Taffy Spencer’s Second Show and it was wackier than the first but this time out, I was able to understand about half of what he was saying.  








I’m sure I am not the only one that has trouble with is Welsh brogue.  He did the cut rope trick and even though we said we'd leave any show that did that trick, we stayed.  Mainly, because Taffy is not really a magician but a comic. 

We caught Bob in The Den.  It’s very noisy after the show and you can barely hear what Bob is doing up there. 

The clocks move BACK one hour tonight to put on MST or Cabo San Lucas time.

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