St. Lucia 11-3-16

We are in port today with Silver Seas Whisper.  It’s a beautiful ship.  Since we had no plans for the day, we got ready and went to the promenade to check our cards for balances and charges.  It’s a touch screen machine that you must bang on to make it work.  It wouldn’t read the cards and wouldn’t type on the screen.  An experience in frustration for both of us!  Then we decided since it was still early to go to the dining room for breakfast which turned out to be a bad decision.  We were seated and a elderly waiter asked if we wanted coffee.  He was speaking Spanish to people at another table and wasn’t even looking when he was pouring the coffee and it splashed all over the table.  We should have taken this as a bad omen and left but instead we continued.  Next his assistant asked if we wanted juice and instead of bringing it and pouring at the table, he took the glasses from our table and the one next to us, brought them back filled but pushed the tray in front of us so we all had to take the glasses off his tray while he stood there holding the tray!  The older waiter took our order and left and never came back to ask if we wanted more coffee. We chatted with the ladies at the next table and wondered what happened to our breakfast as what seemed like hours passed.  Forty five minutes later, he brought our breakfast as the dining room was closing….it was cold and dried out…..so much for breakfast.

We decided to go and look around the stores in the port area just to pass the time and we had only been off a few minutes when the skies opened up and it poured.  It did slow down long enough for us to move on to some other stores to look around and it poured again.  There really wasn’t much to see that was different from any other port so we hung out until there was a little let up in the rain and headed back to the ship.  It continued to rain the entire day.  We went to the buffet and although there is no Guy’s Burgers, I wanted one and Debbie wanted the Mongolian Wok.  We split up and I got in line to wait for them to finish cooking a tray of burgers.  He gave them to the people in front of me and behind me and ignored me!  I finally yelled at him and he made some smart remark in his language…maybe he didn’t think I needed one. 

We came back to the cabin and I wrote the blog and we exchanged photos.  Debbie tried to send Andy a message and the internet was horrible yesterday either because of the rain or because we were sitting in between two mountains.  Regardless,  it was frustrating for Debbie.

The Platinum Diamond Party was at 5:15 today so we went and there weren’t many people there.  Our friends from the 3 card poker table from Raleigh were there.  Two young brothers who are really nice kids and so funny.  We had a good time with them there and later in the casino.

Dinner was good but we always have to laugh because on the new American Table menu,  on the deserts it always shows a “surprise pie a la mode”.  Last night he brought us a whole pie to the table with a huge bowl of vanilla ice cream….it was blueberry pie Ms. Kay!  Not Maine but quite tasty nonetheless!

Too much wine order for us by the brothers at the Platinum party caused me not to be feeling very well so I was up half the night again….ugh.   No photos today as it rained and we never left the port area.