Today was a sea day as we head toward the Princess Cruises island, Princess Cays. There is a tropical storm heading toward the Bahamas, and we were experiencing some of the cloudiness and breezes from that storm. It was actually nice to have some overcast, it helped to make it cooler out on the open decks.
We did sleep in today, still a little tired from having visited ports for the last several days in a row. We could tell as soon as we awoke that the seas were a little more bumpy today than any of the previous days on the cruise. However, since we can’t see outside, we were not sure how cloudy or sunny it was out on deck.
We got ready and went to breakfast in the buffet, and then headed out to the bar on the stern of the ship where I had a Bloody Mary and Stephanie had a Bellini, which is similar to a Mimosa, but has peach schnaps added to the champagne and orange juice.
We headed back to the room and applied sunscreen, and headed to the pool deck.
It was generally sunny most of the time, but we did experience a few passing rain showers, some of them were pretty heavy, but all were brief. We just had to head for some covered areas as they passed through. There was another show at the Seaview Bar by the bartenders, and this time we had our camera. The show was really good, especially when Jorge and Rommel did their act.
Later in the afternoon, we had a couple of drinks at the Seaview Bar before heading in to get ready for dinner. Tonight was the last formal night, and the Captain’s Circle Party, which was at 6:15 PM.
Tonight was also lobster night in the dining room. After the Captain’s Circle Party concluded, we went to the Vines Wine Bar to get some glasses of wine to take to dinner since the selection of wines available by the glass at Vines is much better than in the normal dining room.
We were seated pretty quickly once we got to the dining room, but we did not like our table, it was right out in the main walking path through the dining room, and also right next to a serving station. We later learned that although the table was not that great for location, it would have been better for service since the table we were moved to had terrible service. By the time we were just being served our main course for dinner, the couple that was seated at our original table was already finished with their entire meal. It appeared that the assistant waiter for our table was not properly trained, and our main waiter seemed to have to do all of the work, which made the service extremely slow.
Everyone being served in our area seemed irritated by the slow service. The food was good, although the lobster was really small, and served with prawns, which are not my favorite.
After dinner we went back to Vines and ran into one of the couples we had talked to on the Barbados tour.
We were getting tired, so we headed back to the room, but only to change into more comfortable clothes, and then head back out, Stephanie wanted to attend the big balloon drop party in the atrium. They had placed some type of prizes in a few of the hundreds of balloons that were suspended in netting from the ceiling of the Atrium. Although it was scheduled for 11:15 PM, they did not actually release the balloons until about 11:30 PM while everyone was dancing on the floor of the atrium. We almost caught a balloon that appeared to have something in it but another balloon diverted it and we were unable to catch it. The ones we grabbed did not have any prizes in them.
We headed back to the room afterward, and this time, we were in for good. Tomorrow we stop at Princess Cays, the private island for Princess Cruises. There was speculation that the weather might be to stormy for us to stop since it is a tender port. However, no official announcement had been made today. We will just have to wait and see.
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