We actually made breakfast, but to be honest I’m starting to have and issue with this meal in the dining room. I really want to be a bit more healthy but the temptation to over-indulge is always there. I was almost good, bircher muesli and then messed it up with a ham, cheese and chilli omelette with a side portion of Cumberland sausage. Jane on the other hand just had a melon plate.
Jane did a little more laundry, that was the third time we’ve been up there already, so we should have very little dirty washing to take home with us on Wednesday. I spent the rest of the morning drinking coffee in the Concierge Lounge or writing up my blog back in the stateroom. We visited deck 8 as Jane wanted to book another hair appointment, which will be her 4th in the last week and a half, which to me seems a bit excessive but that may because we have significantly different hairstyles. While we were there we had a look around the book shop and then the library.. The library really is an oasis of peace in an already peaceful ship.
Lunch in the dining room was a sliver of pork pie for me to start, and then the chicken and walnut pesto pasta as a main. It was a good job the pasta was a filling dish as the pork pie was the thinnest sliver possible while still being recognisable as a pork pie, a mere soupcon.
We rushed down to the Carinthia Lounge after lunch as Jane wanted to do the music trivia quiz. Music is her forte along with soap knowledge, so armed with the knowledge that I wasn’t going to be much help we took part. It was a bit chaotic with the compere forgetting to stop the music before the lyrics gave the tune away, not that it helped me much. It turns out that Jane’s music superpowers don’t really extend beyond the 1980’s so we were quite pleased to get a mighty 23 out of 40. Taking part in the music quiz must have put us in the correct frame of mind for the Afternoon Trivia because we were on fire. Luckily we were joined, not only by Pam and Max, our usual quiz pals, but also by two of or table mates Dennis and Hazel. We ended up with a winning score of 18/20 which put us into a tie break with two other teams. Our ability to guess things saw us through and we were the proud recipients of 6 stickers for the sticker book which can be redeemed for fabulous Cunard themed prizes.
After all the excitement, it was Commodore O’clock and we retired upstairs for a well deserved Doombar and Bloody Mary. Jane really liked the Bloody Mary, but complained that it went down far too easily.
Jane had requested Lobster Thermidor for her main course, I’m not a fan of lobster so I asked Osman, our Maitre’d, what he would recommend. He reckoned that I would enjoy a nice fillet steak, flambeed with mushrooms in a Diane sauce and obviously he wasn’t wrong, I certainly would like that. The starters were Brussels pate for Jane’s and I had the prawn cocktail. When asked by our waiter what she would like for dessert Jane started off her sentence by saying she was being good and wouldn’t have a dessert and finished it off by saying Grand Marnier Souffle please. We were, again, the last to leave the restaurant.