Breakfast in the restaurant was open seating, meaning they just put you with some random people as you come in. Timmy thought it was very amusing that our head waiter was named Somwang. Our other waiter, whose name we didn’t catch, was pretty funny. The ship was really rocking because of the rough waters. Well, as Funny Waiter Guy was pouring the coffee he mumbled to himself, “Oh, Captain been drinking again.” Ha! Then some of us were looking out the window at the Royal Caribbean cruise ship that was off in the distance, and he goes “What you looking at – submarine?” The funniest thing was this story he tried to tell. He said, “One night this guy come up to me and say ‘You seen my wife?’ and I say ‘Who your wife? Is she blonde?’” And then he just started howling with laughter.
Anyway, after breakfast we wandered around the ship. The waves were so rough that all the pools were closed. And it was still raining a little. So we couldn’t do anything outside. We attended the free casino gaming lesson and learned how to play craps. That was interesting. Then we went to the Shore Excursion lecture given by our cruise director Dana (a guy.)
After that we went back to the casino to play in the slot tournament. We both lost. Oh well.
It stopped raining for a bit so we went out on the deck to hang out. Just in time for the hairy chest competition. Timmy tried to get in on it, but didn’t make it to the stage in time. I think there were 5 guys competing and none of them was especially hairy. They were idiots, however. It started raining again so we went back inside and checked out the art auction. Lame. Why would anyone buy art on a cruise? I just don’t get it.
The Port Shopping talk was given by Hector and the Other Guy. Hector was a flamboyant Cuban who wore tight pants and lots of sparkly jewelry. He didn’t talk much, except to tell all the girls to “Call me.” He blew a whistle a lot. We learned that not only is Hector one of the shopping experts, he’s also a latin dance champion and would be teaching dancing later in the week. Most of the shopping talk was about jewelry.
The special drink of the day was the Caribbean Breeze… “a devilish blend of rum, crème de banana, apricot brandy & tropical juices.”
Monday night was the first Formal Night so we got all dressed up. We went to the Captain’s Cocktail Party and got to shake hands with Captain Rocco and Dana. And we got free drinks! It was LOBSTER night in the restaurant. The waitstaff sang “O Solo Mio” while we had our dessert.
After dinner we went to the Vegas-style show featuring the Victory Dancers. It was okay. I nearly fell asleep during it, but that probably had something to do with all the free alcohol and mass amounts of food I’d consumed. We went back to our room and found our first towel animal – a swan! It’s a little droopy, we’re not sure how long it had been sitting there waiting for us.
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