Island to Alaska with Pictures (part 2)

[margord]

There is something to be said for that other cruise line that offers "freestyle cruising" where you dress formal if you want to but you don't if you don't want to.

 

Marilee

[cruzluvr2]

Okay, I'm going to guess again. Is "it" that feeling you sometimes get when your feet hit solid ground?

 

Gail

[alwalaska]

There is something to be said for that other cruise line that offers "freestyle cruising" where you dress formal if you want to but you don't if you don't want to.

 

Marilee

 

We all better be careful or someone is going to jump in with "you shouldn't want to eat lobster if you like to wear jeans" or something like that. :D

 

Like Mrs. C. I can do without nylons, etc. at any time, but especially on vacation.

[cworld]

We all better be careful or someone is going to jump in with "you shouldn't want to eat lobster if you like to wear jeans" or something like that. :D

 

Like Mrs. C. I can do without nylons, etc. at any time, but especially on vacation.

 

 

Yeah Ann, we wouldn't want the Jeans Police to jump on us (although it might spice up this my sometimes stagnant soliloquy). We don't mind sprucing up a little bit for dinner. Suits and dresses just aren't our favorite things. But I did it for LOBSTER. Mrs. C just did it because I told her she had too. (Ha, ha.)

 

The guesses in the "It" contest are getting better, though not any closer. I liked the Patience one. And solid ground did feel pretty good. However that's not what I had in mind originally. Here's another hint. "It" was better outside.

[cworld]

I know you were all just dying for the next installment, so here it is.

 

As we were waiting for our server to come back with our drinks, a man was seated at the table next to us. This man was interesting and a little mysterious. He was of Oriental heritage, and it was obvious when he talked to the servers that English was not his primary language. This gentleman was dressed in a very expensive looking suit and looked very well coiffed. The thing that was so interesting and mysterious was that this man was alone. We had never seen anyone in the dining room eating alone. I wasn’t sure it was allowed. Curious.

 

Our waiter came back with our drinks and took our order. Mrs. C ordered something forgetful, and when he asked me I told the waiter I wanted LOBSTER. I didn’t really care what came with it, I just wanted LOBSTER. The waiter said thank you and went over to take Mr. Mystery Man’s order. It took him a couple of minutes to order. Apparently there was a language barrier or something. Mr. Mystery Man kept looking at the door like he was expecting someone to join him. I thought that might have been what he was talking to the waiters about, but he after a couple of minutes he pointed at the menu and the waiters smiled and went to get our food. In a few minutes later the waiters came back with our appetizer and Mr. Mystery Man’s drink and then they went away.

 

And after a couple of minutes, so did Mr. Mystery Man. He took a couple of swigs on his drink, went over to the house phone, made a phone call and disappeared. I figured he was calling Mrs. Mystery Man, or would that be Mrs. Mystery Woman? I don’t know, anyway he made a call and then walked out of the restaurant. Mysterious.

 

After an appropriate time the servers came back with our salads and Mr. Mystery Man’s appetizer. They went ahead and left Mr. Mystery Mans appetizer, but they did puzzle over where Mr. Mystery Man was. I think they even asked us, but we didn’t know. He was a mystery.

 

One thing I need to say here about the appetizers. Either Mrs. C or I, or both of us got a Shrimp Cocktail every night. We noticed that the first night the shrimp were good sized and seemed fresh. By the end of the week the shrimp were shrimpy (small), and not crisp. They drooped a little. It seemed that as the week progressed the quality went down. That may be understandable, but it was a little disappointing. Just a little.

[camperhawk]

Carl, Keep it coming! Okay how about a text message? Is that IT?:) :confused: :confused:

[camperhawk]

Oh and maybe Mrs. C should give us a clue to really make it interesting, and probably even more mind boggling! How about it Mrs. C?

[margord]

Yeah, come on MrsC. give us a hint.

[cworld]

What if Mrs. C doesn't know what "It" is?

 

Only the shadow knows...

[camperhawk]

Carl, you are sooooooooooooo bad for that!!;)

[cworld]

After we sucked down the appetizers and the salads it was time. Here it comes. LOBSTERS. Real... dead... (at least I hope there dead, I do like meat rare, but not I’m really not in the mood for sushi) LOBSTERS. Our servers came over toward our table with a tray of those covered dishes. Only there were too many. Well, maybe they have 2 tables worth. PATIENCE. They started serving, only it wasn’t our table they were serving. It was another table. Hey, dummies, hurry up. I’m demand my LOBSTERS. The servers brought the Mystery Man’s salad but he was still missing in action.

 

A couple of minutes later here came another tray. This time I didn’t get my hopes up. If it was ours, I wanted to be pleasantly surprised. And I was. They plopped down Mrs. C’s whatever it was she ordered, and finally they brought my LOBSTERS. There they were. 2 perfect looking, (like I’d know if they weren’t), perfectly sized, (I’m not too sure about that what size is perfect for LOBSTERS?) scrumptious (now this one I’m sure about) LOBSTERS.

 

I couldn’t wait. I dived right in. OH YEAH BABE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is what I came for. This is the pinnacle, this is the height, this is the summit, this is the zenith, (oops, maybe that one is better left out) this is it. I can tell you that from my limited experience, Princess Cruise Lines knows how to cook LOBSTERS. They were tender, they were juicy, tasty, they were delicious.

 

Being that I’m not a real LOBSTER aficionado, I’m not sure the protocol for lobster, but I can describe what I remember. There were 2 LOBSTER tails that were split open. The meat had already been loosened, so it was real easy to get to it, and suck it down. There was a small thingy of butter sitting on the plate so you could daintily dip your LOBSTER in the butter. It was very good that way. I greedily and quickly devoured my 2 LOBSTERS and pondered ordering a couple more.

 

While I was greedily eating my LOBSTERS and Mrs. C was delicately eating whatever it was that she had ordered, the servers called one of the Grand Mafioso over to discuss Mr. Mystery Man. They decided to clear his table and put it up for auction. About 2 minutes after they got the table clean here came Mr. Mystery Man back to sit down. In a minute one of the servers came over and talked to Mr. Mystery Man, and began bringing food and stuff back to his table. Mr. Mystery Man ate fairly quickly, skipped dessert, and left before we did. We never saw him again.

 

About the time I decided to order a couple of more LOBSTERS, the servers came, took our plates and asked about dessert. I’m not ready for desert. I want more LOBSTERS. So, Mister hurry these misers up so I can get some customers that might actually order something that I can automatically charge a 100% tip on, if I want to order some more LOBSTERS, I’ll just order some more... “I think I’ll have a slice of cheesecake”, I said.

 

What’s up with that? I really want some more LOBSTERS, but I can’t make myself order them. And it would have been nice to have a steak to go with the LOBSTERS, but I couldn’t bring myself to order it. Mrs. C and I talked about it. I told her that I should, and she told me to go ahead, but I couldn’t. I guess I was afraid of the dinner ordering police coming and taking my license to eat away or something. I knew that it was all right, but I just couldn’t do it.

 

So I ordered dessert and pouted.

[Mrs. cworld]

Carl, Keep it coming! Okay how about a text message? Is that IT?:) :confused: :confused:

 

 

Camperhawk: You're getting hotter!

 

Here's my clue: You can't get IT on E-Bay.

[noj]

I think I tried email from the family at home as "IT"; but I don't believe there was ever a response!!!

[cworld]

Sorry, Noj that I didn't respond, but email had already been suggested and rejected. We didn't check email all week.

[cworld]

Hey everybody, it's time for a Celebration. ITAWP parts 1 and 2 is one year old. I'm shocked that no one came by to tell us Happy Birthday yesterday. Oh well.

 

Here's today's rant.

 

Dessert came and went, about the same as the other nights, especially since I think I ordered the same thing every night. After dessert, it was time too... Hmm, it’s time to.... Oh, yeah, it’s time to go to the show, well almost, or not quite, or yeah, we have a while.

 

We debated about going back to the room to change clothes. If we did we might be underdressed and people might laugh at us, and if they did I might have to kill them, and then we’d be in big trouble, but if we don’t we might get so irritated by wearing these uncomfortable clothes that I might kill someone, and then we’d be in big trouble. It was a great dilemma for us. We decided that I could probably control myself if I was not wearing a coat and tie and we went back to the room to change. It was almost a whole hour until the show, so we took our time as we changed. I’m not sure, but I think we wore, everyone get ready to gasp, JEANS. All together now, BIG GASP. Ahhhhhh.

 

I hate wearing suits.

 

We walked up toward the theater. I had selected a path that didn’t take us by the casino. I didn’t think we had time for that. We walked in to the theater about 20 minutes or so prior to the show starting. When we walked in there weren’t very many people there. But as soon as we walked in the door all noise stopped, everyone immediately stopped what they were doing, they turned and stared right at us. It was one of those once in a lifetime moments. Everyone was looking at us like we were in our underwear or something. GET A LIFE PEOPLE. This isn’t the main dining room, it’s the theater. It’s not going to fall down just because a couple of hicks from the sticks show up in jeans. Of course all of this might all have just been my imagination (probably) but I was just a little uncomfortable.

 

We staked out seats kinda in the middle of the theater. We had brought our caffeinated drink decanters and I went to get us some caffeinated drinks, since I knew that the server people would not appreciate us asking for non-tip paying drinks. I was only gone for a couple of minutes, but when I came back our new friends from New Jersey were talking to Mrs. C. We invited them to sit with us, and they gladly accepted. It was a beautiful thing. It was Mrs. New Jersey’s birthday. We told her happy birthday. I quickly baked a lovely cake for her and we had cake and ice cream right there. Well, maybe not, but I thought about it, at least about the cake and ice cream.

 

I should have gotten the second plate of LOBSTERS.

[Sea Fan]

Personally I have been thrown off because you did NOT get the second plate of lobsters!!! I know your not shy you should of asked. That is the only reason I forgot your BIRTHDAY!!!!!! Happy Birthday Mr.& Mrs C ,now on with the project.:D

Dianne

[Mrs. cworld]

My DH, you need to do 1 of 2 things:

 

(1) Finish this "little" project

 

OR

 

(2) Give your dear readers, fair warning that summer baseball season starts in 10 short days. And you know how much computer time you will get with 30 games in 6 weeks.

 

P.S. We actually ran into Mr. and Mrs. New Jersey during our time in Glacier Bay--remember the hot chocolate????? AND the bear hunt????? Also, we saw them enter the dining room and she looked lovely with her new birthday jewelry!!!!!

[camperhawk]

Mr. and Mrs. C, whoohoo!!! Happy one year!!! Tried to sign in from work yesterday and can you believe it... they have now stopped access to the site on our computer at work!!! Obviously, I work for an institution that is completely anal without any sense of humor:eek: :eek:

 

Just got home from work again and Mrs. C, thanks for the clue and letting me know I was getting hotter with my guess.. so I'll try an Instant Message from home instead of text message!! I must say though..I was bewildered cuz I thought you could get everything on E-Bay!!!;) ;)

 

I just made a mental note for our upcoming cruise to order the second helping of lobster whether I want it or not! I'll take the dessert with me back to the cabin to eat after I see the show, in my comfortable clothes of course!

 

Thanks again Carl..and you better listen to Mrs. C. I don't know about everyone else but this is the most patient I have been with anything in the past year!:)

[cworld]

P.S. We actually ran into Mr. and Mrs. New Jersey during our time in Glacier Bay--remember the hot chocolate????? AND the bear hunt????? Also, we saw them enter the dining room and she looked lovely with her new birthday jewelry!!!!!

 

Dearest wife, love of my life, cream in my coffee, and all of the other usless sayings, I'm sorry to say this, but you are wrong. Yes, I know it's shocking and it doesn't happen very often (maybe never) but this time you are wrong, wrong wrong. We didn't run in to Mr. and Mrs. New Jersey until College Fjord. I know because I looked at the pictures which have time and date stamps on them. I was planning to talk about them later in our little tale. Like I keep telling everyone else, PATIENCE, all will be revealed in good time. By the way, Love you.

 

For everyone else, she's right. Baseball heats up again next week. I probably won't be done by then, so things might slow down a little.

 

I'll try to get back to this tonight.

 

Until we meet again,

Patience

[Joy2Day]

Belated best wishes on your accomplishement, Mr & Mrs. Cworld. I was down in KC witnessing the SWEEP of Cardinal red into that Royal blue stadium.

 

With baseball heating up, I'll be back from my second Alaskan cruise since you began your entertaining travelogue.

[LisaH]

Hey live posters! Anyone in B503?? Take good care of her for us as we will be there next summer. I just switched us to B503 from D410 and am really happy about it. I am sure there are negatives about the bump-out minisuites but I can't see any.

 

One of the reasons we changed is we wanted to be higher up and the bonus was a covered balcony.

 

Anyway, just excited and if anyone posting live is in one of the bump out cabins let me know how it is.

 

THANKS

[Gayle2]

:D Hey Mr cworld

I didn't realize I've been reading this for a whole year! Congratulations and NO BASEBALL OF ANY KIND TILL YOU FINISH THIS!:D

[cworld]

Thanks everybody.

 

Camperhawk, nope, not text message although your still warm. And make sure to eat a Lobster for me, I'm just sure it will make me feel better.

 

Gayle, Wow, that's a tall order. Finish in the next week. For a normal person that probably wouldn't be a problem, but as I'm sure you know by now, I don't seem to be very normal. We'll see. I kinda think it might last in to the summer. Bummer.

 

SeaFan, you'd be surprised about how shy I am. I'm really just a mild mannered guy, but when I get behind a computer keyboard I turn into cworld, super-heroish story teller.

 

Now for what you've all been waiting for, the next clue. In keeping with the Ebay theme, Mrs. C told you you can't get "IT" on Ebay, but, you can get Ebay on "IT". Figure that one out.

[Sea Fan]

HMMMMMMM!!! Could "IT" be a PDA? hmmmmm!!!! :confused:

 

Dianne:rolleyes:

[Sea Fan]

To add to my guess a WIFI enabled PDA, am I getting close?????

 

Dianne