This morning, we were awakened by room service at 8:00 am. They brought me a small birthday cake, compliments of Princess. Earlier in the cruise, we had picked today day to celebrate my “belated” 50th birthday on the ship.
Unbeknownst to me, Stephanie had called the Pursers Desk earlier in the cruise to let them know it was my “birthday”, but we were both surprised by the cake delivery, and for it being delivered at 8:00 am. I tried to convince the waiter he had the wrong room at first, thinking it was just someone’s breakfast being delivered. However, after I saw it was a cake, I realized it was for my birthday. We had planned on sleeping in today, but the cake was a nice, but early surprise. I went ahead and got up and walked to the buffet area for two coffees, to go.
It was another cloudy and foggy morning; the temperature was about 49 degrees. Throughout the day, it looked like it would clear up, but had not done so by 1:30 in the afternoon. The temperature did rise into the high 50’s, and it did not seem to be too chilly. The sun actually appeared briefly a couple of times. I guess we are getting more used to the lower temperatures, but we hope to once again see the sunshine.
We did a load of laundry, and then headed to one of the specialty restaurants for a “Pub Lunch”. The lunch was nice; they had several typical pub choices, fish and chips (which we had), bangers and mash, cottage pie, and another dish we had not heard of.
After lunch we went to a quiet lounge area to work on the blog. Tonight is the second formal night, the Captain’s Circle Reception, and my Birthday Celebration Day. Nice of Princess to go to all of that trouble just for me!
At 7:00 pm, we headed to the Captain’s Circle Reception, and ran into a couple we had met on Stephanie’s birthday, Ruthe and Brian. from Lakeland, FL. After the reception, Stephanie and I went to dinner, where it was lobster night. Of course, we ate too much (well I did), and then we had my birthday celebration with the dining staff. Once again, they did a great job helping us to celebrate, and I even got another small Birthday Cake.
Since we had some of the birthday cake left over, along with a few of the assorted sweets that had also brought out, we asked for a “to go” container. One of the nearby wait staff actually put it into a handmade foil swan. We had fun taking pictures with our new pet!
We caught up with Ruthe and Brian later on in the Explorer’s lounge, and then we all went up to the Skywalker’s Night Club, which is located in the very top and rear of the ship, giving it the appearance of a car spoiler.
We danced some and just had a fun night talking about things we have in common, and various different cruises and trips we have been on. We had a great time, just ended up staying up late, and we had another hour time loss again to make it even later. We are now 4 hours ahead of Eastern Time, with one more hour to go before we are on London time.
