Our table had been plotting for weeks as to how we could get another raspberry cheesecake like we had on my birthday. The next birthday in the group isn't until December 20 so that wouldn't work. We decided we would celebrate an anniversary, or maybe all of our anniversaries! The captain would be providing wine on the day we missed Yap as an apology, so that was the day we chose. Dorothy told the server supervisor that we would be celebrating all of our anniversaries on that day so needed a special cake. All the ladies dressed in our Hapi coats from Japan for the celebration. We have gotten a lot of use out of those jackets. They have even been used as formal on formal nights. It was a fun evening although the cake wasn't as good as mine had been. This one looked like they put raspberry jelly on top. Mine had had a raspberry sauce and was delicious. It was a nice evening.
It seems like we get a lot of alcohol on board. We have had 3 bottles of champagne and a bottle of wine in our cabin. I can't even remember where it all came from. We take a bottle to dinner once in a while to share with the table. Others do the same. None of us are big drinkers so one bottle serves 6 easily. Two usually don't have any. We can change whatever we have for another wine if we want. We usually change the red or champagne for white. One night I asked for a white zin. Our wine steward who is way too pretty for a guy, served the wine. When I tasted it it was not what I liked. I looked at the bottle and it was rose. He told me they were out of the "house" white zin that we could trade for. Hmmm, maybe he should have told us before he served it? Strange. And of course some nights we get wine from the captain for some reason or another. We had it for missing Okinawa also. I know some passengers just love the free wine nights but aren't as happy about it the next day. We also have 4 bottles of liqueur in our cabin which was one of our amenities when we boarded the ship. Those will go home with us. I know someone will drink it!
And speaking of alcohol, our travel agent held cocktail parties this evening, one at 4:30 for the early diners, one at 7 for the late diners. It was an open bar. You would think these people had no money the way they were grabbing the drinks. One lady brought her sports bottle to fill while another filled an ice tea size glass 3/4 with vodka, then to the brim with Kalua. Then they went back to the second party to do the same thing again! I did have 2 cosmos which is WAY more than I usually drink. Mel and I both went away with cans of diet Coke for our cabin. It was interesting to say the least.
Six days in a row at sea is too many. Everyone is eager to get off in Papua New Guinea tomorrow. After that we will have 1 or 2 sea days between ports. The remaining of this trip is going to go by very quickly after this.
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