We got our front 4-top for breakfast
again and today we had Shaun for a waiter. He was just as good as Damin or Jake
and we had to wonder how it had taken us a week and a half before we got a half
week of good service. There was a line out the puzzle room all morning, so that
was annoying.
We got out early to catch a golf cart ride up the spiral
ramp and over the levee to the buses right in downtown Baton Rouge. We could
see the old Capitol Building nearly across the street as well as the new one
down the street. But, we were headed out of downtown for our complimentary
Rural Life Museum Tour. This was to finish Judy’s wish list of seeing a
plantation. Now we have Cedar Grove, the unfinished Longwood and the working
part of a plantation without the big house today. We had to do it in pieces!
There were only about a dozen people on our bus today and when we got there
they split us again to take us through the grounds. It was another good tour
and we really would have liked to have more time. But for some reason the guide
thought we were entitled to a Louisiana capitol city overview driving tour as well and
he saved 30 minutes for that. It was OK, but our tour description did not have
that.
When we got back Mom & Judy’s room had not been serviced. Judy went
to tell someone and she was told it was because the do not disturb sign was out.
That was not true and even if it was written on the staff report, their room is
directly across the hall from the office and they could easily have seen that it was not on the
door. It was cleaned during lunch. We got back just in time for lunch and
sailing.
Lunch was first course of shrimp & grits or goat cheese crouton.
Entrée was BBQ chicken salad or mahi mahi. Dessert was brownie a la mode or ice
cream.
This afternoon we worked on the puzzle and participated in
activities. There was dancing, kite flying, trivia and bingo. We all stayed
busy, happy and occupied right up to cocktail hour.
Dinner was first course of
poached shrimp or French onion soup. Entrée was beef tenderloin or stuffed
lobster tail or both. Dessert was chocolate raspberry terrine or berry
cheesecake cobbler or ice cream.
Entertainment tonight was the Victory Belles,
an Andrews Sisters type trio. They were around all day today in costume. The
real activity for us tonight though was packing. We have pretty well settled in
here during the past 2 weeks.
We have breakfast at 7am tomorrow and are supposed to be off
the boat by 8:30am. Per our disembarkation forms earlier this week and our tag
assignments, by saying we would make our own arrangements upon disembarkation we also get to carry
off our own luggage since we 4 received no tag assignment. We talked about it and
all decided that rather than having to put our luggage out by midnight, we’d
just as soon keep it until morning and handle it ourselves.
We have a car
reserved at the Convention Center which should be within a 5 to 15 minute walk
for Clay and he will go pick it up while we wait outside with the luggage. Then we will
have the car for the day to ferry Mom & Judy to the airport for their
afternoon flight and take us to Hotel Convento for the next 3 nights.
We are all sorry that the service was not equal to the high per
diem fare ($715) and that we feel we cannot justify another cruise with ACL again on
that account.
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