Sailing North. Feb 21

Woke up to smooth sailing and gorgeous scenery in the Chilean Fjords.  Ate breakfast outside.  Beautiful!  Worked out in the gym and then we won again at team trivia so we’re feeling optimistic.  Today was Galley Market Lunch which was basically an elaborate buffet staged in the galley.  Had lunch with Maggie and Tom from trivia.  They live in Michigan but seem to do a lot of traveling, especially in winter.  Ordered caviar and enjoyed it on our veranda with the champagne Seabourn gave us at sailing.  Sunny, relatively warm day today so we enjoyed being outside including dinner at the pool.  Beautiful and more interesting food than The Restaurant.  Too bad the Antarctic weather didn’t allow us to enjoy more pool dinners.  Gorgeous sunset.

·        We’d gone to bed at 11.  I’d taken an ambien.  Up at 730 for views.  Breakfast in colonnade but on outdoor section in back  Double order of french toast and syrup. Attention from everybody. We are most decidedly on “the list”.  Woman (bleached blond hair/asst manager) says one more time that she is available if we need anything…  In other words, I want to be helpful before you tell my boss

·        Have to turn down probably 10 offers of coffee fills

·        Check out level 5 outside too  Nice seating outside but it’s really too cold..

·        Go over to lunch early with a bottle of kunstmann edel lager to be able to claim an outdoor table.

·        Meet up with MJP and 2 of her trivia people in The Restaurant.  They’re doing behind the scenes tour today of all the food prep. Interesting. Huge!

·        Beautiful weather outside.

·        Nap. Then MJP’s caviar for 2 delivered to room.  I’d stopped down at S Square and got chocolate shake!  If only I’d known these were possible from day 1!

·        Next stop obs bar.  Ashley and multiple bottles of the coated peanuts. Dolphins surfing in front of ship.  Even the bar tender goes outside and takes pix!  End up talking to Dennis who’d owned the homebrew supply store in Seattle and now lives in Florida.

·        Convo with Dennis prods us to leave at 655 for 700 opening of dinner at patio bar.  Roberto comes by twice, proud of beers he’d gotten me. He said that he’d arranged a car to take him various places where he picked up beers! I talk to the patio bar guy who wants to show me what he’s got (only 1-2 bottles of each) and it turns out that Roberto had already given me all of them!

·        Roland stops by to say hi.  Leon from South Africa is one of our waiters. We’re really starting to feel like we fit in at this point.

·        We get a dinner table outside along the glass and spend nearly 2 hours enjoying the views and the better food.  Later we conclude that overall best food is out here on patio, and number of servers.

·        Bed time is 10pm because we’re getting up at 515 for our tour tomorrow.

·        Starting to feel quite nostalgic to be leaving even though we have tonight (nearly over), tomorrow night (formal goodbyes) and the night after that, then kicked off at 8am