Day 10 - At Sea

Today was a quiet, albeit foggy, day at sea. The ship entered fog last night and didn't fully emerge until about 5pm tonight.  Since we have been traveling open seas, there hasn't been much to see anyway.

We attended another enrichment lecture by Terry Brooks this morning. This one was titled "The Vikings Are Coming - Part One".  I guess part 2 will be on the next sea day. This lecture explained how the Vikings came to be established in the Scandinavian countries, Iceland, and Greenland. His talks are not only informative, but also very entertaining. He has a great British sense of humor.

Cream of Crab Soup

Duck a la orange

After the lecture we were able to reclaim our passports.  I think the main reason that security held onto them was for Russian immigration to stamp them both on entering and leaving Murmansk. We are getting quite a nice collection of stamps in our little blue books!

Bingo was at noon again. No winnings this time, but I did come within 1 number in the final game.  A couple I met yesterday at Bingo, Jack & Barbara, won a share of that pot, but it wound up being split 5 ways so they didn't get a whole lot. Maybe enough to cover the cost of the cards. 

Wonderful Salmon in an orange sauce

 On the way out we stopped to look at the restaurant's lunch menu. It looked very good, so for the first time we had lunch in the restaurant instead of going to the buffet. Then we spent a nice quiet afternoon back in our cabin reading (Ray) and doing some cross stitch (me of course). I don't usually do much cross stitch, but I had found some cute small kits on the free-be table at Happy Stitchers a while ago and decided they would be nice small projects to bring along. The finished products will probably wind up on a fidget quilt or some other charity project.

Fresh Norwegian Char fish

 We had a very nice dinner last night. I know I've got to be gaining weight this trip, the food is so lovely to look at as well as great tasting, and great varieties. I don't care though. I'll get back to dieting when we get home. For now I'm enjoying the gourmet menus and the pampering. (Since I don't have any other photos to share, I'm including pictures of some of the lovely dishes that have been placed in front of me!)

Petite Fours are offered after every dinner

I'm not sure whether I mentioned this before, but want to make a note here so I don't forget names again.  We have run into several crew members on this cruise who were also on our Asia cruise in 2013. The amazing thing is that they remembered us.  This includes the security officer as we came on board ( I will add his name when I am able to catch it on his name tag), two waitresses (Ley and The'), and one of the restaurant maître'd s. We also ran into Bebe, who is the wife of the chief engineer. She comes on cruises with him when she can, and just happens to have been on the last 2 legs of our Asia cruise and is on this cruise as well. We ran into her on one of the tours.  Regent cruises are somewhat like a large family and it's very nice.

Mont Blanc dessert in dark chocolate cup

No Sugar Added Limoncello Souffle Crepes