Live: Apr 20, 2024 Summit 14 Night Panama Canal Westbound Cruise!

[mahdnc]

Third course was the Seabass with Za'atar.

 

[mahdnc]

Fourth course was the Duo of Beef Filet (left) and Short Rib (right). 

 

There was some type of potato or vegetable in between the two meats.  None of us liked it.

 

Edited April 22 by mahdnc

[mahdnc]

The fifth and final course was dessert, Java:

 

Edited April 22 by mahdnc

[AZCruisergirl]

2 hours ago, mahdnc said:

The fifth and final course was dessert, Java:

 

Looks like a very special evening and I’m glad you got the chance to do it. Thanks for the yummy looking photos.

[AZCruisergirl]

12 hours ago, AZCruisergirl said:

Looks like a very special evening and I’m glad you got the chance to do it. Thanks for the yummy looking photos.

Did you end up with one book or two?

[mahdnc]

1 hour ago, AZCruisergirl said:

Did you end up with one book or two?

The next morning (Day 2, yesterday) a crew member hand delivered to our stateroom a signed copy of the menu, a group photo of the dinner guests, and a single copy of the Daniel Boulud cook book.  
 

I have a feeling that if I wanted to get a second copy of the book since two of us paid for the dinner, I could have but it would require some work that I wasn’t willing to do. 

Edited April 22 by mahdnc

[mahdnc]

Here are some photos of the heavy cook book (Daniel, My French Cuisine, Nov 2013) which had a list price of $60 printed on the dustcover:

 

 

 

 

[mahdnc]

The good news is that we gained an extra hour of sleep last night! The bad news is that we still woke up too late to make it for breakfast (closes at 10:30 am)!!  
 

We decided to have lunch at the MDR which doesn’t open until noon. So we sat down near the art auction. 
 

As everyone knows, the Park West art auctions are alive and well. And well attended today (unless these passengers were waiting for lunch to begin, too). 
 

During our Chef’s Table dinner two nights ago, one of the couples were big Park West fans and buyers. They told us that they have been comp’ed by Park West with free cruises. I didn’t realize that was a thing. 
 

[mahdnc]

Lunch today at the MDR:

 

 

 

I took the chef’s recommendations. 

[Ciaranaman]

All caught up (from Thursday!!).  Looks like you're off to a great start on your cruise - lots of sleep and great food!  

~Bernadette

[expattraveler]

17 hours ago, hcat said:

thank you...I will have some nice reading to do. 

 

I loved the "Path Between the Seas" about the orig canal ..long book but was very complete...We enjoyed our partial transit but thinking about a full...e to w.

hcat,

 

Agree with you.  “Path Between the Seas” was long, very detailed, but an excellent read. Read it prior to our canal transit last year on the HAL Niew Amsterdam.

[mahdnc]

Celebrity Today Day 3 At Sea 2 of 8

Celebrity Today Day 2 At Sea 1 of 8

Celebrity Today Day 1 Miami

[mahdnc]

The weather during the past two sea days has been terrific.  Smooth seas and blue skies!

 

[Ex-Airbalancer]

3 minutes ago, mahdnc said:

The weather during the past two sea days has been terrific.  Smooth seas and blue skies!

 

Nice balcony ! 

[FlorenceItaly]

We had this room on our PC cruise before the class change.  It greatly enhanced our cruise!  Wishing you a wonderful cruise.

[mahdnc]

1 minute ago, Ex-Airbalancer said:

Nice balcony ! 

 

A good place to watch the canal crossing from if we don't feel like leaving our cabin.  But we will be roaming around the ship during the actual crossing, but it's good to know that we will always have this rail space available to us.

[mahdnc]

Some comments about our roll call sail away.  We scheduled it for 3:30 pm at the Sunset Bar (Deck 10, aft) in preparation for our schedule 4:00 pm departure.  The Sunset Bar is a very popular place to watch the sail away--whether you are part of a roll call or not.  Consequently is was difficult to set up any sitting/table space for the group also because many people were eating their lunch out there.  So I spent most of the sail away inside the Ocean View Cafe just by the sliding doors to the rear deck.

 

One of my hobbies has been to make name tags for our roll call.  It was more useful when Celebrity sponsored the official Cruise Critic Connections gatherings.  The name tags that Celebrity had for those that registered for the connections party were small pieces of paper with a safety pin or something like that.  People would write only their first names on it and I found it difficult to figure out who was who because I knew them more from their screen name.  So that is why I began making custom name tags and setting up table space inside the Ocean View Cafe to lay out the name tags is much easier than doing it outdoors with a breeze and strong sunlight.

 

It is nice to be able to meet the actual people behind the Cruise Critic screen names we have been posting with over the many months.  However the amount time you have to meet so many people is not sufficient.  For me, I had to duck out of the sail away for a short period of time because my contact lens was acting up in my left eye and it looked like I was crying each time someone came up to introduce themself.

 

Judging from the number of name tags not taken, we had a 44% turnout of our roll call for the sail away which is about average.

 

[mahdnc]

It's time to run off to the first of 3 blackjack tournaments that the ship's casino is holding on this sailing.....

[DaKahuna]

18 hours ago, hcat said:

I loved the "Path Between the Seas" about the orig canal ..long book but was very complete...

 

 I read that before our transit last year and loved it. 
 

 

[DaKahuna]

2 hours ago, mahdnc said:

I took the chef’s recommendations.

 

 Is that still on the everyday or children's menu?  I remember ordering it while in Luminae when nothing else appealed to me.  Always found it very good. 

 

[cruisetonowhere10]

2 hours ago, mahdnc said:

Lunch today at the MDR:

 

 

 

I took the chef’s recommendations. 

Looks yummy.

[mahdnc]

I’ll be playing in Round 5. So there are at least five rounds of players.  
 

Six players per round. Six hands played. Players start with $500 in play money chips. 
 

The dealer only busted once in the first round and so the high score was only $1100. 
 

Second round did much better (photos). The high score was $4300. 
 

 

Edited April 22 by mahdnc

[mahdnc]

Our fifth round table took the option of having the cards reshuffled after watching Round 4 go down in flames. It didn’t matter. By the time we got to the next to last hand, four of us were already out including me. And the remaining two didn’t have enough to place among the current top six scores (6th score was $2400). 

[mahdnc]

28 minutes ago, DaKahuna said:

 

 Is that still on the everyday or children's menu?  I remember ordering it while in Luminae when nothing else appealed to me.  Always found it very good. 

 

 

Are you talking about the Spaghetti Bolognese?

[mahdnc]

The other two blackjack tournaments will be held on Fri Apr 26 (At Sea Day 3 of 8 ) and Thu May 2 (At Sea Day 7 of 8).  Including today, all 3 blackjack tournaments are being held on all three Evening Chic days. at 3 pm.

Edited April 22 by mahdnc