Our Cruise - Winter Break 2011 (Part 8)

Tommy can't believe it took me 8 posts to get to the food! We ate very well on the cruise, it was wonderful! I only took pictures of the formal dining, but there was also plenty of food all day long...We ate breakfast in the formal dining area a couple of mornings, but mostly there was a restaurant on the Lido deck that always had a wonderful buffet (Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner).  Poolside was what they called the Sky Grille, they had great hamburgers, chicken strips, and the best fries ever!! and of course I don't want to leave out the Pizzeria, it was open 24/7....needless to say we ate alot of pizza! (Especially since the Pizzeria was directly above our cabin, one flight up the stairs and you had all the pizza you wanted 24/7) The ship also had a Fish & Chips restaurant that Tommy ate at once or twice during lunch, and they had a very nice Steak House, unfortunately we never made it to the Steak House, it was $30 a person extra and was reservation only, it wasn't just the money, we really enjoyed dining in the main formal dining room in the evenings, we had a really great time with Janessa and Heather and as I told you in a previous post our wait staff was AWESOME!

 Chase loved the place settings!

Heather's Escargot

 Tommy trying the Escargot...I love Janessa's face as she watches!! :)

 Our head waiter always made sure we (Chase) had plenty of fries each night!!

Tommy's appetizer

Janessa and Chase shared a Baked Alaska to go along with their Chocolate Molten Cake :)

 Chocolate Molten Cake...This was our favorite dessert! We had it every night!! :)

 All the girls loved our Matre`D - Nash...He was pretty dreamy!! :)

Here are a few pictures of one of the last little "tricks" our head waiter did for us...First he brought us a glass of ice with the string from a tea bag and asked if we could pick up a cube of ice using only the string...of course none of us could, so here he is showing us how it's done! We all loved his tricks each night!! :)

Voila!!

I love the look of amazement of on Heather and Janessa's faces!

Our Cruise - Winter Break 2011 (Part 7)

Our last port of call was Progresso, Mexico.  This was added because of our late departure since we were unable to make our original port of Montego Bay, Jamaica...We were pretty disappointed and after hearing alot of people saying that Progresso was not that great, we decided to stay on board this day and take advantage of some of the people being gone, and just laying out, not to mention Chase and I must have went down the water slide 10 times that day! The waterslide was our favorite!! (:

Our Cruise - Winter Break 2011 (Part 6)

Our second port call was Cozumel, Mexico...this was our 4th day on the cruise! We probably had the most fun this day! We loved all the out at sea days, and really had lots of fun on the ship, but as far as a port call, this was definitely the best day...We didn't port in the same place that our cruise did when Tommy and I had been in Cozumel 16 years earlier, so we didn't recognize much, but it was beautiful!

As I said we didn't do any shore excursions that the ship offered due to budget issues, but we got a taxi (again another fun ride, in Mexico, they don't stop for pedestrians, they just honk and speed on through...makes for an interesting ride!) So, we went to the beach...Tommy and Chase rented snorkeling gear and I took pictures of them, then I put all our stuff in a locker and joined them out in the ocean.  The water there is so blue and so beautiful! I didn't snorkel because I have before and wanted to save the money because as beautiful as it is and as much as I enjoyed it the first time we snorkeled in Cozumel...seeing all the fish swimming around me (especially the HUGE ones) freaks me out a little, so I just swim and don't think about it!! LOL! (:

SNORKELING IN COZUMEL

 AFTER SNORKELING

Can you tell who had the most fun snorkeling??

Cozumel was a good long port call, so we were able to enjoy the beach, snorkeling, and then we even did alittle shopping around town, as well as taking some pictures...All in all it was a great day!