Next, I went up to Revelations lounge for “The Taste of Summit”, where the sushi chef and a chef from Normandie did a brief demonstration and offered samples of the food.
Darwin the Sushi Chef:
This definitely put me in the mood for some more sushi, so I had a little snack at the sushi buffet:
After my snack, I went back to the cabin to get ready for formal night. Here are the menus and food I ordered:
Cold Smoked Atlantic Salmon:
BBQ Glazed Chilean Sea Bass:
Apple Tart:
After dinner, I went to the show. Tonight was iBroadway- a 60 minute medley which I really enjoyed as I am a huge fan of Broadway musicals. Of course it was not quite up to the quality of the original productions I have seen in NYC, but it was still fun to watch and the singers and dancers did a great job. They sang one or two songs from each show, so it was fun to try and name the show as they sang each song 🙂 Lots of upbeat music, but they sang a few ballads too.
Sunday 11/14: St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, in port 8am-5:30pm I woke up bright and early on Sunday, ready to experience my first port day. I had breakfast at the buffet:
I liked my omlette and waffles so much that I had the same thing for breakfast nearly every day (so I’m not going to re-post the photo every day haha)
They made the announcement that we were allowed to get off the ship a few minutes after 8am, so I headed down to deck 1 and was off the ship in 5 minutes. When I got to the end of the pier, there was a shuttle bus waiting to take me to Sand Castle on the Beach ($6 round trip, for about a 5 minute drive. I found out later in the day that it IS possible to walk along the shore from Sand Castle Beach back to the ship if you don’t want to take the shuttle, but I took the lazy route) Sand Castle was a really nice resort, that offered $5 day passes to use their beach, lounge chair, bathrooms, showers, and pool. I attempted to snorkel at the beach, but unfortunately the current was uncharacteristically rough that day, and I was getting tossed around so much in the water that I gave up and relaxed on my lounge chair for the morning.
Of note in that photo: 1) Very close proximity to the ship… this was just our first port so the novelty of seeing the ship from the beach was quite exciting!; 2) the waves crashing on shore… thanks to the remnants of Hurricane Tomas, the current was VERY strong; and 3) the rocks along the shore… locals said that you never usually see rocks along the shore, as it is always covered in sand. All of that sand was washed away the week before I visited because of heavy rains, so hopefully the beach will build back up again eventually! Despite that, it was a fairly long stretch of beach and I walked at least a mile down the shore and back:
At around noon, I caught the shuttle back to the ship for lunch. I had a panini from the deli station, and some chinese food from the asian station:
After lunch, my original plan was to walk down the pier and turn left towards Fort Fredrick Beach. Once again, the severe rains the week before completely washed away this beach, so when I got there, there was a rope across the entrance saying it was closed. Instead, I walked around some of the shops in port for a little while.
Clocktower at the pier:
Fort Fredrick (immediately to the left of the pier):
At around 2pm, it started to rain (note the very dark clouds above the clocktower!!), so I went back on the ship and relaxed on a lounge chair near the Thalasotherapy pool. I liked the lounge chairs here a lot because they were teak, as opposed to the plastic lounge chairs by the pool.
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