Bermuda Cruise, Pt. 2

(We’re now on Day 2 (at sea), afternoon.)

As hinted, after I posted part 1, I ended up going up to the first of the three trivia sessions they were having in the afternoon: Broadway, Golden Girls and Will & Grace. Really? On a straight cruise? So I went to the Broadway one and got most of them. A lot of them were easy, like “what musical has the Jets and the Sharks fighting each other” and what musical describes its main character as a “flibbertigibbet, a will o’ the wisp, a clown”? (The poor German-born hostess had a real problem with “flibbertigibbet”.) Some of them I figured I’d be one of the few to get, like who are the Tonys named after? (Antoinette Perry). I got the show with the longest Broadway run (Phantom), but missed the show with the 2nd longest run (the current Chicago – I put Cats, because at the time Phantom took the prize, Cats was the one that it beat). They also faked me out because I smugly thought the question was wrong. It was ‘who played the leads Eva and Juan Peron in Evita‘. First, they meant the movie, which the hostess told us, but I thought, “surely, they mean Eva and Che, not Eva and Peron”. But sure enough, the answer was Madonna and Jonathan Price.

Anyway, no one else had more than 12 out of 20 right, and I had 13 (kinda 14), so I won! I got a medal! And a great deal of Smugpoints™. I decided to skip Golden Girls and Will & Grace, didn’t want to hog the spotlight, you know.

Then, as promised, I got a burger and fries, then – after working on some projects – went up to the fancy coffee shop to get a mocha Everyone else had the same idea at the same time, and there was only one guy working the shop, so it took a while. Plus, I, in vacation mode, also got a vanilla cream-filled donut, which, on top of the mocha, was just too much.

Decided not to go swimming later, got cleaned up, back to the piano bar. Francisco still cute, but recycling tunes from the day before, oh well. And because we’d shifted our clock forward to match Bermuda time, everyone ate later and when I put in for a table, it was an hour-long wait, But with the burger and the mocha and the cosmo, I wasn’t that hungry. By the time I got a table, the sun was going down, and I got a great seat facing the stern and saw the whole thing.

My waitress was far less inept and more charming than the last couple. I had some more of my bottle of wine, then cream of mushroom soup, salmon and panna cotta, all really nice. I had been going to go to the comedy show afterward (labeled 18+ for naughty words), but it was too late, I just went to the room and chilled before bed. Had to get up early.