Christmas market cruise 2023. Day 4. At Sea

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Sea day today so nothing planned. We got up around 8am and dressed and went for sit down breakfast at 9am. The kids had bacon and pancakes. Scott had poached eggs again, this is his P&O norm, and I asked for a muffin whichever was the special one that day and a croissant. I got a pastry and a plain muffin. Seems to be a running theme that my orders get lost in translation all the time. Scott says it’s cos I talk quiet but I really don’t.

The kids went to the club for 9.30am when it opened and we collected them a tad early at 11.30am. We were a little bored without them. We went to Brodies as I like the quizzes. We played some cards and Georgia found a really tiny duck, they both seem to be good at finding at least one per cruise.

We went to the main dining for lunch. Georgia had prawn fajitas

Scott had prawn sandwich

me and Scarlett had burger.

It was all quite good. We have fallen out with the buffet because of the trays. Georgia the little weird one with quite a grown up meal. She does love to try different things a lot more than her sister.

The pantomime was at 2pm so we got some seats around 1.30pm. We sat in the middle in front of the booth who do the sound etc. They were really great seats.

Georgia sat next to this woman and didn’t shut up talking. She really shouldn’t be allowed to interact as she does not have a filter. I’m sat there just waiting for her to say something she shouldn’t. Scarlett was at Scott’s side and she just waited like a normal person. Next time Scott can have the gobby one.

The panto honestly was pants. I haven’t seen a pantomime in a few years as the kids alway go with school but it was a poor production. There were 4 cast members. The beanstalk was a picture with green lights and the giant just did stomping feet. One of the cast couldn’t even sing. One of the funniest bits was at the end were he ripped his trousers and had to come back on in joggers. But there was one song. Called the climb that jack sung and it’s one of Georgias favourites so she sang along to it at the top of her voice that afterward people in the row behind, infront and the lady she’d been speaking to at the side of her congratulated her on how amazing she sounded. Bless her. I might have been a little red in the face as she has my talent for singing. And I can’t really sing. But she does try. If anyone is going to be on stage out of this family it’s her.

We went back to Brodies for an hour or so with our cards. Before getting back to our cabin where a towel Elephant waited and the girls were so impressed by it.

Menu for tonight.

It was a formal night so we got all dressed up and went to the Emerald bar. We had a few cocktails, by we I mean that Scott had the fairground cocktail and me and the kids just stole the candyfloss from the top. Raspberry and the next was apple. Lovely.

The girls went and got some photos done in front of us and then up the stairs while we watched from our seats. They took a lovely photo and we had it made into a bauble for the Christmas tree at home.

We went to the sit down meal that night, got a Bloody Mary thing which was horrible, we took a video and Scarlett’s face was a picture trying that,so funny and not at all like her to even try something.

We had steak with potato and prawns to share then the kids had chicken with curried potatoes to share

We all had a swap around with bits that we liked. We didn’t bother with pudding or starter as we had actually booked for olive grove but it wasn’t until 8.30 as we had thought we were going to watch something but it turned out we didn’t. But we were hungry so we thought we’d have two dinner. We didn’t realise that was a bad idea though at the time.

We waited in the club house with a drink after the main dinning room. We had planned on seeing what they said was a comedian but it was awful so we left. He was another off of Britains got talent but he was more like a very bad impressionist. Not funny in the slightest.

And then the olive grove was terrible. It took 1 hour for the food to arrive we very nearly just walked out, this is becoming a thing with us in that when we get that feeling to walk away that we just need to do it instead of giving it more time. We felt that it was just not feeling quite right and we pushed that down and stayed. New years resolution if you get the urge to walk then walk. It was way too late by this time for the kids to be up. So they only ate a little bit of it and we left at 10pm. Never booking a table that late again it’s just pointless for us. I was very stupid to even think 8.30pm was an acceptable time.
We had carbonara

And chicken

Lemon tart

We went back to the cabin, pottered and got ready for bed. We were all asleep by 11.30.