Sea Day on Riviera

Since we lost an hour last night and today was a sea day, we slept in. It was after 8 am before we headed out to Terrace for breakfast. It was not busy there so others must have been sleeping in too. Clay deck walked above the pool deck. The top fitness decks are closed today due to high winds. Seas were about 5-6 feet at lunch time's Captain's announcement. I think they are higher now possibly due to completely clear of the Bahamas now. I got my needlepoint kit for today.

We had lunch in the Grand Dining Room today. Clay checked the menus and found Mexican food was being served everywhere today but the GDR had the Croque Monsieur on the menu today. The noon announcement included a chef's update that they were grilling fresh caught yellow fin tuna in Terrace. A woman at the next table in GDR ordered the Nicoise salad and was surprised to hear it would contain a freshly grilled yellowfin tuna steak instead of canned tuna. She told her husband that she'd really been looking forward to the canned tuna, but she ate it all so it must have been good. We discovered a feature at GDR that we'd somehow failed to register before. GDR has a little lower righth corner of the menu called Tastes of the World. Today it had a selection of all the Mexican dishes being served as either a main course or a tapas platter to share. The waiter said it is there everyday with some featured global cuisine. We'd noticed there was always a theme at Terrace and the same dishes at GDR but hadn't noticed the sampler platter feature. Clay got it as his main course and it was beautifully presented and he enjoyed a big lunch. It was photo-worthy but sadly he left his phone in the cabin!

There is a big screen popcorn movie this afternoon. They are screening "Judy" again. We won't go. The Captain's Cocktails are at 5:45 pm this evening. We have no early reservations tonight, so we'll probably try the Grand Bar again before dinner in Terrace. Clay checked the menus for tonight too and told me I'd be shooting for the beef & basil stirfry station at Terrace. I like that and hopefully last segment's chef is still onboard. I had him trained to not put bell peppers or green onions in my food!

I'll assume no other news and post this now.

Tomorrow is country #97, Dominican Republic.