Last night was the B&W ball. We started off later than normal down to the Queens Grill lounge for a cocktail prepared by the wonderful Sheldon (from South Africa) who was also there at Christmas. He mixed another wonderful cocktail for me and Hubby had a Dark ‘n Stormy (Bermudian national drink). Each time we go to the Queens Lounge I always ask Sheldon for a surprise cocktail and so far he hasn’t failed to impress – the drinks are yummy.
We had a lateish dinner arriving at 8.30 p.m. and were surprised and delighted to receive a very nice bottle of champagne from hubby’s parents (the “out-laws”), you may remember I told you they were on the ship with us at Christmas. We are sad that they can’t join us this time but as his Dad has a kidney removed this week we’ll let him off this time but hope that they will soon be able to join us either on Bermuda or some far flung shore for another holiday. (Besides, my mother in law is a very impressive housekeeper and she’s a joy to have visit our house)
After dinner we went along to the casino and it was packed. I must admit, whilst being a smoker I did appreciate the lack of smoky air in there and it was very busy, so I’m assuming that the smoke free zone is encouraging more people out (this is not an invitation to debate by the way – just an observation on our part). After dropping a few $$’s in the Casino and coming away with nothing we hopped along to the G32 night club. It was a 60’s night and the DJ was good, followed closely on his heels by Vibz who I must say were absolutely brilliant as usual, boy they can sing. Must say though the boys seemed a bit jaded (even though the performance did not suffer one bit), perhaps they were out on their night off seeing the sights of NY as had stopped over an extra day. Anyway G32 was lively enough and Justin and I danced our socks off (not a good look anyway with ballgown! My feet were very sore and I was perspiring quite a bit (to put it mildly) but we had great fun dancing the night away to Vibz and the DJ’s music. We surprised ourselves by not getting to bed until 1 am – unheard of for us – we’re old before our time.
This morning we made it up in time to see the ship dock in Boston, again the view from our balcony isn’t that great. We caught the shuttle to Quincy market which was lovely, browsed round there and brought quite a few trinket type things and then made our way downtown to do some serious shopping, (clothes and shoes of course). The shuttle service to Quincy was great, no waiting around at all and highly recommended if you’re stopping in Boston in the future on the QM2. All very easy, from ship to market in 10-15 minutes maximum.
After having worn ourselves out at the shops and sightseeing and eating lobster ciabbattas’ (yum yum) we headed back to the ship (again by shuttle) and now I’m resting my weary legs and sitting on the bed as I type this. Tonight hubby has ordered room service, with shrimp and caviar to start followed by Chateaubriand with new potatoes followed by apple strudel with vanilla ice-cream – thank god I wore that slim fitting dress yesterday and didn’t save it for later in the week.
Our butler is going up and up in our estimation, to avoid embarrassing him I won’t mention his name but he really is pulling out all the stops for us now – apparently he loves to be doing “butlerish” things, rather than just attending to cleaning the rooms and turning down beds at night. He was very enthusiastic about getting us everything we want for our in room dining experience and actually stated that he loved to assist with in room dining and we are both very much looking forward to being really spoilt tonight. We’ll be drinking the gift of champagne we received from the outlaws and a nice bottle of wine for the steak course.
Tomorrow we will be heading for Bar Harbour, we are not yet sure whether we will be getting off or chilling out again and reading on our balcony or on the deck. We shall see how we feel and what the weather is like. Today’s’ weather is perfect, cool, low humidity (temp about 78 degrees) and a bit of cloud, warm enough for those that wanted to wear T shirts and shorts and nice for us to be able to wear light trousers whilst out walking (something you can’t do comfortably in Bermuda).
Each day we count our blessings and think how lucky we are to be on here again and to be able to spoil ourselves and relax. Life is good and we are enjoying every moment of being on here. I’m happy there is no internet as I have hubby’s undivided attention so this really is a treat for me. You will note on other posts that I have made that reference has been made to the lack of internet facility – those notes (the moaning) were by hubby as an introduction to my posts as each day he likes to pop down to connections and catch up with whatever and copies and pastes my blog onto the CC web site. Hubby has now joined me sitting on the bed and reading his book (I’ve made him read The Count of Monte Cristo one of my favourite books but of course, he hasn’t really had time to read it before as it’s quite big so now he is engrossed in it and it’s a pleasure to see him enjoying it as much as I did. I hope he finishes it before we leave the ship. (but that’s a long way off yet).
Thank you all for your messages it’s nice to know someone is out there! Hope I’m not boring you too much but this is a great way also for me to remind myself in weeks/months/years to come about everything we did on this holiday. I haven’t met any of the other cc’ers and wouldn’t know them if I bumped into them, but perhaps if the internet is up and running before the end of the cruise we can arrange a meet up and a chat. Have a great labour day weekend everyone.
Cheers
We had a lateish dinner arriving at 8.30 p.m. and were surprised and delighted to receive a very nice bottle of champagne from hubby’s parents (the “out-laws”), you may remember I told you they were on the ship with us at Christmas. We are sad that they can’t join us this time but as his Dad has a kidney removed this week we’ll let him off this time but hope that they will soon be able to join us either on Bermuda or some far flung shore for another holiday. (Besides, my mother in law is a very impressive housekeeper and she’s a joy to have visit our house)
After dinner we went along to the casino and it was packed. I must admit, whilst being a smoker I did appreciate the lack of smoky air in there and it was very busy, so I’m assuming that the smoke free zone is encouraging more people out (this is not an invitation to debate by the way – just an observation on our part). After dropping a few $$’s in the Casino and coming away with nothing we hopped along to the G32 night club. It was a 60’s night and the DJ was good, followed closely on his heels by Vibz who I must say were absolutely brilliant as usual, boy they can sing. Must say though the boys seemed a bit jaded (even though the performance did not suffer one bit), perhaps they were out on their night off seeing the sights of NY as had stopped over an extra day. Anyway G32 was lively enough and Justin and I danced our socks off (not a good look anyway with ballgown! My feet were very sore and I was perspiring quite a bit (to put it mildly) but we had great fun dancing the night away to Vibz and the DJ’s music. We surprised ourselves by not getting to bed until 1 am – unheard of for us – we’re old before our time.
This morning we made it up in time to see the ship dock in Boston, again the view from our balcony isn’t that great. We caught the shuttle to Quincy market which was lovely, browsed round there and brought quite a few trinket type things and then made our way downtown to do some serious shopping, (clothes and shoes of course). The shuttle service to Quincy was great, no waiting around at all and highly recommended if you’re stopping in Boston in the future on the QM2. All very easy, from ship to market in 10-15 minutes maximum.
After having worn ourselves out at the shops and sightseeing and eating lobster ciabbattas’ (yum yum) we headed back to the ship (again by shuttle) and now I’m resting my weary legs and sitting on the bed as I type this. Tonight hubby has ordered room service, with shrimp and caviar to start followed by Chateaubriand with new potatoes followed by apple strudel with vanilla ice-cream – thank god I wore that slim fitting dress yesterday and didn’t save it for later in the week.
Our butler is going up and up in our estimation, to avoid embarrassing him I won’t mention his name but he really is pulling out all the stops for us now – apparently he loves to be doing “butlerish” things, rather than just attending to cleaning the rooms and turning down beds at night. He was very enthusiastic about getting us everything we want for our in room dining experience and actually stated that he loved to assist with in room dining and we are both very much looking forward to being really spoilt tonight. We’ll be drinking the gift of champagne we received from the outlaws and a nice bottle of wine for the steak course.
Tomorrow we will be heading for Bar Harbour, we are not yet sure whether we will be getting off or chilling out again and reading on our balcony or on the deck. We shall see how we feel and what the weather is like. Today’s’ weather is perfect, cool, low humidity (temp about 78 degrees) and a bit of cloud, warm enough for those that wanted to wear T shirts and shorts and nice for us to be able to wear light trousers whilst out walking (something you can’t do comfortably in Bermuda).
Each day we count our blessings and think how lucky we are to be on here again and to be able to spoil ourselves and relax. Life is good and we are enjoying every moment of being on here. I’m happy there is no internet as I have hubby’s undivided attention so this really is a treat for me. You will note on other posts that I have made that reference has been made to the lack of internet facility – those notes (the moaning) were by hubby as an introduction to my posts as each day he likes to pop down to connections and catch up with whatever and copies and pastes my blog onto the CC web site. Hubby has now joined me sitting on the bed and reading his book (I’ve made him read The Count of Monte Cristo one of my favourite books but of course, he hasn’t really had time to read it before as it’s quite big so now he is engrossed in it and it’s a pleasure to see him enjoying it as much as I did. I hope he finishes it before we leave the ship. (but that’s a long way off yet).
Thank you all for your messages it’s nice to know someone is out there! Hope I’m not boring you too much but this is a great way also for me to remind myself in weeks/months/years to come about everything we did on this holiday. I haven’t met any of the other cc’ers and wouldn’t know them if I bumped into them, but perhaps if the internet is up and running before the end of the cruise we can arrange a meet up and a chat. Have a great labour day weekend everyone.
Cheers
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