Anniversary Celebration

December 11/2015

This was a very busy, very special day. Even though our anniversary is not until January 7^th we were celebrating it this day. You see you can have Princess celebrate an occasion for you if your cruise is within 45 days of that special occasion. So we began our day with a champagne breakfast on our balcony. There was a very nice congratulations sign outside of our room and a lovely card in our door when I left the room.

I went topside and walked my 13 laps and got some lovely sun rise pictures.

 Our breakfast arrived promptly at eight o’clock as ordered. There is something decadent and celebratory about a four course breakfast complete with champagne. The menu included

Juice

Coffee

Champagne

Quiche

Smoked salmon

Fruit

Pastries.

There is no way that a person could eat it all in one sitting… at least these two people couldn’t . We nibbled on it for most of the day and had the second salmon plate and the rest of the pastries the next morning.

Before we knew it, lunch time had arrived. This was the day of the special Cruise Critic luncheon. There were 130 of us having lunch together. The chef prepared a special pasta dish for us and there was an amazing chocolate cake for dessert.

After lunch I had a rest and then it was time to shower and get ready for formal night and the Captains Circle Party.

While getting ready I watched the new Mission Impossible movie on the stateroom television. Those special effects are always so amazing and impossible in reality. But the movies are fun.

The sunset was unbelievable this evening. We got a few pictures from the balcony and wished dinner were later because we could have taken many more outstanding photos.

 The dinner menu included Canadian lobster so of course that could not be missed. We had them save our anniversary cake for the 12^th since so much was happening on the 11^th.

The main dinner entre was lobster and crab cakes. I ate my crab cake and gave Ken my lobster tail. I had mixed berries for dessert and they were fantastic. The raspberries were just as good as we have in Abbotsford and that is saying something. We had a half bottle of Robert Mundavie Chardonnay with dinner.

Then we headed for deck nine. Because all but 12 people on board are Captain Circle members they were set up on the open deck instead of using the lounges. Of course they were serving free cocktails. Ken and I each had a rum punch. We chatted with Michael and Jan and Barb and Craig and took some pictures and then we headed down to deck 5.

On the way we took a few more pictures. I was wearing my new dress so posing was required.

 The show tonight featured vocals by Donny Most. He will be remembered as Ralph Mouth from Happy Days. He was quite good and surprised me. He sang the old swing tunes from the 30’s and 40’s.

There was a Love Boat Anniversary party being held on deck ten but by then we had had enough so we went back to the cabin and called it a night.