August 18, 2025 – At Sea – North Atlantic Ocean – Cloudy Drizzly – 53F

August 18, 2025 – At Sea – North Atlantic Ocean 

There were some wiggles in the early morning.

I couldn’t find the cottage cheese so I had two eggs OM with pancakes – Very good.  

It was very foggy out there at breakfast.

Ron Orenstein got the 12:15 PM Speaking Slot and I am going on after the Magician, Eric Walton, who is doing three shows today because of the unscheduled sea day. 

I am back to Tuna Salad Sandwiches and soup (the soup on the ship has been excellent).  Today, it’s “Cream of Tomato” and it was very good.  

I got to the theater about 2:40 PM and Eric (the magician) and audience members were working out visual puzzles – not really magic but interesting. Eric was still going around 3 PM and when he was finished I set up fast and was underway.  I had another full house and the talk – “Forensic Detectives: Identifying America’s Fallen Heroes” seemed more effective and better attended than it did on the first cruise. 

At 5:30 PM, we went to the Living Room to listen to Stephanie and Francisco (band guitarist) perform an acoustic set.  

They were pretty good but at 6 PM, we went down to dinner in the Discoveries Restaurant.  We continue to get Table 1 which is a great table.  I started with a salad – the only dressing that works for me on this cruise is Thousand Island.  The salad, which was mostly tomatoes and donated croutons from Ellen’s Cesar Salad, was pretty good.  The entrees came quickly.  Ellen’s lamb looked good – two big hunks of meat along with rice and some candied or marinated beets or cabbage (couldn’t tell) that I really liked in an earlier dish. 

There was something wrong with my entrée – instead of pesto, the dish was a tomato sauce covered pasta with mushrooms and tomatoes.  I asked the waiter and he said it was pasta pesto.  I doubled checked with a suit who has been taking our orders and he said right away that there was a problem with the dish.  In a few minutes, the pesto pasta arrived and it was really good.  I think what I had was the Pasta Neopolitana from the Kosher Menu.  It tasted like the Bolognese without the meat.  I just wasn’t sure what it was.  I might even order that again should I get the chance one day.

I ordered the pesto again for tomorrow night and Ellen said she would order from the menu.

We spent the evening in the Mosaic Café both of us drinking tea.

A revised itinerary with all the missed ports was placed in our stateroom - post facto.

Time Change: Clocks move forward one hour to put us on Reykjavik Time.