Day 4 – another day at sea.
So far it is wonderful to just relax.
Bob got up feeling a lot better (he took two bonine just in case). We walked for 45 minutes, taking some breaks
to do the outdoor exercise machines.
Overall, it was a very nice exercise morning.
We got ready and then went to breakfast up in the Lido. We were a little cramped for time and ate
fruit and omelets for breakfast. We had
to make it down for the 10am lecture by Professor Charles Carlton from NC State
talking about mistresses of the British Royalty. It was an excellent and humorous talk. The fascinating thing was how so many of the
mistresses played such an important part in modern history.
After the talk, Bob relaxed a bit and Julie went down to the
future cruise person to get our upcoming cruises turned into on board
bookings. She also wandered by the gift
shops since we have almost 400 in shipboard credit that we need to spend.
We then went to team trivia with the same gang. This time we didn’t do as well, just in the
pack some place. After that we went to
lunch (Julie had a salad and Bob had a hamburger no bun). We then went to a talk by Steve St. Peter
called: “The TV Ad: From Concept to ON THE AIR.” It was a mediocre talk for several
reasons. For one, he used slides that
were timed to roll out the talking points.
They took too long to deliver and he was left with dead air time. He also wrote a ton of information on the
slides and didn’t talk to them. He did
show a number of very good commercials but overall, the talk was mediocre at
best. Then again, maybe this is because
Bob knows about making films and what he talked about was pretty much the same
process.
After the talk, we eventually made it back to the room to
work on email and the blog.
We ended up skipping the next talk by Jay Christofferson on
Whales (we watched parts of it live streamed on the TV while we kept working on
our computer stuff.
With dinner at 6pm, we decided to go to the Crystal Cove for
pre-dinner cocktails. Julie had a pink
flower and Bob had a margarita.
Tonight was resort casual dress and we had reservations at
Silk Road at 6pm. The meal started with
a couple of small samples one made of seaweed and the other of pumpkin. They were great. We then split a California Roll sushi and a
Smoked Salmon Sashimi with some Wasabi and Ginger. These were also excellent. The next course was a Lobster Spring Roll for
Julie and Shrimp Tempura for Bob. Julie had the Australian Wagyu Beef Rib Eye
and Bob had the Mushroom Soup that was served in a small tea Kettle and the
broth drunk rather than eating the soup with a spoon. We had an For entrees, Julie had Nobu-Style
Lobster with Truffle-Yuzu Sauce – a stir-fried lobster with Garlic, Asparagus,
Shitake Mushroom and Snap Peas finished with Truffle-Yuzu Sauce. Bob had the Grilled Australian Wagyu Beef Rib
Eye from Greg Norman’s Signature Ranch in Queensland. This was served with three kinds of
sauces: Anticuccho, Teriyake and Nobu-Style
Wasabi Pepper.
The samples:
Sushi and Sashimi:
Lobster Spring Roll:
Mushroom soup - notice that you drink it and then use the chopsticks on the mushrooms, served in a tea pot.
Beef rib eye appetizer:
Lobster:
Beef rib eye dinner:
After dinner, we went to the show, which was by singer
Michel Bell and his wife Catherine Matejka who played the piano and led the
Galaxy Orchestra. Michel has an amazing,
deep baritone voice, with power that is startling. Early in his career he was one of the
members of the Fifth Dimension (he was known as Mic Bell when he was part of
the Fifth Dimension). It was an
absolutely fantastic show. After the
show, we swung by the Starlight Club and listened to more of the Harry James
Orchestra and did a little dancing.
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