We slept in and didn’t get up until around 7am. Sailing overnight to San Francisco and the
seas were medium rough, but very, very windy.
When we went down to walk on Deck 7, all of the doors were barred from
exit due to the severity of the wind. We
ended up going up to Deck 8 and safely exited to the stern of the ship and then
went down the stairs to the promenade.
We were the only people walking on the deck. It was incredibly windy, but we persisted and
got another 30+ minutes of walking in.
Note, this time, the Apple Watch said that we 7.03 miles during the 30+
minutes. We are incredibly fast, kind of
world record pace. I’m sure it was the
wind pushing us along (ok, it was the GPS tracking our location on the ship and
not so accurate). Maybe next time I’ll
use an “indoor walk” setting and have it ignore the GPS.
We decided to hit the dining room for breakfast and got in
just barely before they closed at 9:30am.
Bob had an omelet again and Julie had eggs over medium. The only problem with the breakfast was when
Julie looked up and noticed that Bob was wearing a tee-shirt with Homer Simpson
on it. She was mortified. Here we are in an elegant, six-star dining
room and Bob is wearing a freaking red Homer Simpson tee-shirt. She made Bob cover his shirt with his napkin
and made sure that she left the dining room before him so she wouldn’t be
associated with someone so uncouth. Just
kidding. LOL.
We then went to our room and grabbed the camera. We were set to sail under the Golden Gate
bridge at about 10:45am. We first went
to the Palm Court to see if we could watch the entrance to the bay from
there. It was pretty busy and so Bob
decided to head up to deck 13 and see what it was like on the front of the
ship. It turns out that it wasn’t very
windy at all and was an absolutely lovely place to watch passing under the
Golden Gate, past Alcatraz Island and into San Francisco. We were cleared for going ashore at about
noon. Here are a whole slew of pictures of us arriving. It was quite cool!!!
We discussed options for the day and decided to just hang
out on the ship for the afternoon and relax.
Tomorrow we have an all-day tour to the wine country and then another
tour on Tuesday to Muir woods. So, it
seemed best to just relax and enjoy the beautiful Serenity.
We stopped in the Bistro Cafe for a coffee and a plate of fruits, cheeses, etc. Yummy.
Julie worked on work stuff on her computer. Anyway, she worked for a few hours, while Bob
worked on the pictures and blog. It was
chilly in the shade (especially with the zillion mph wind that was blowing
around the top deck). Eventually we
wandered out to the sunny part and it was nice.
Still windy, but the sun beating down on us was so warm and
wonderful. We loved it. Bob’s computer got down to 1% and Julie’s
wonderful computer did a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death for those that don’t know
important computer parlance).
We decided to go to the afternoon movie, called “Gifted.” It was a quite interesting story with Captain
America (ok, he wasn’t in character) raising a 7-year-old that was totally
gifted. Complex story, but a very nice
movie. Although C.A. never put on his
spandex nor did he have his shield. I
mean what is up with that?
When we got back from the movie, Bob went to plug in the
computer and realized that the power brick was still in Park City. We then got off the ship and went over to the
Apple Store to pick up a spare brick.
The store was absolutely packed, but we managed to secure what we
needed. The traffic was incredible, even
though it is a Sunday. People
everywhere, cars everywhere. The Lyft driver
(Victor) was amazing in that we got where we needed to go and never ran over a
single person. (It turns out that when
we finished we summoned another Lyft driver and got the same guy). Anyway, we made it back to ship and got ready
for dinner. We were a bit late for yard
arm (for those of you that don’t know about yard arm, it is when the sun goes
below the yard arm of a ship – which means it is time to drink – typically 5pm).
We stopped at the Avenue Saloon for a pre-dinner cocktail
and then went to dinner on time. Olmez
was there to greet us (although he mentioned that none of his tables were there
last night). Julie started with lobster
medallion with truffle yogurt and apricot chutney. Bob chose this weird dish with goat cheese
rolled in poppy seeds, with dried apples, and lettuce. Both were AMAZING.
We then both had a Boston lettuce salad with green goddess
dressing and then the entrée was steak Diane with green peppercorn and mushroom
sauce. Oh my, was that maybe one of the
best steaks that we have had. Yeah,
probably.
For dessert, Julie had a mocha
cheesecake and Bob had this concoction with mint chocolate ice cream and other
goodies. It was incredible.
After dinner, we went to the short show of a violinist and
singer at 8pm. Both were excellent and
were going to continue on the ship for the rest of the cruise, so we have lots
of opportunities to see them. After
dinner, we went back to the room to get ready for our long day tomorrow heading
up to Napa. We planned to have breakfast
in our room with room service, but of course, we plan to walk as well (today we
did around 15K steps, but the miles are totally goofy, given the GPS issues).
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