After the required 4:30pm muster drill, we headed to the deck for the sailaway party. We had our first cocktails and then went to Outrigger’s Bar to meet our Cruise critic friends. It was fun. They are a great bunch and I look forward to meeting them throughout the ship. We started sailing away from NYC and it got COLD! We soon headed inside to get ready for dinner.
Our first night was great. We had a wonderful dinner at the Crown Grill. This is one of the two specialty restaurants on board. I had filet mingion and Chris had a veal chop. Because it was our anniversary they brought us a chocolate cake and sang a happy anniversary. One thing I will mention is my appetizer was scallops which were good and something else I tried but did not know what it was. I made the mistake of asking the waiter. He replied it was “goose liver”. That explains why I did not like it.
After dinner we headed out to the night life. This was short lived because we were exhausted. We did see my new favorite band Exotique. They are fantastic. We also breezed through the casino without stopping and are anxiously awaiting the no smoking night tonight. We went to the welcome aboard show and the best part of that was the cruise director, Dan Styne. He is hysterical and not what I am used to for cruise directors. He is on the TV every morning on a funny news show he created. When we got back to our room we had our chocolate on the pillow and our Princess Patter with all of tomorrow’s activities. All in all great first day!