This is Day 3 of our Ritz-Carlton cruise. Happy New Year! Lunch yesterday was in the Beach House. Salad and soup with Bloody Mary and beer. Lamb chops and salmon. Shaved ice. Ended with a cappuccino. Maybe they have this every afternoon, but there was an incredible late afternoon snack: caviar, raw oysters, pasta and hamburger, All that with a New Zealand Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc and Nikka vodka. Then came "drinks" of Gazpacho and Vichyssoise. Never these before as cocktails. Dinner was in the fanciest restaurant on the ship, Azur. I was still filled from the caviar snack, so only had soup, salad and mushrooms, with an Australian Shiraz and German Riesling. Glass of Sauternes at the end. This was New Year's Eve, but we just went to sleep and skipped all the festivities. Only walked 2330 steps. During the COVID Pandemic, my Thursday postings were devoted to this disease, as compiled by Worldometers. As this is the final day of 2025,...
The Ritz-Carlton Yacht cruise line arranged for us to be picked up at 1:45PM. Last view of the Marina Bay Sands. Seamless transfer of luggage to room, but there was so much confusion about processing the paperwork to board the ship. Everyone was confused, including the staff. The luggage was in our room when we got on the ship at 1 PM or so. We thought we'd have lunch at Mistral, which was on the 10th floor. However, the elevator only traveled to the 9th. A staff member saw us uncertain about how to get to our restaurant and came to help us. He said that the back elevator would do the job, so he patiently walked us the length of the ship and up to where we wanted to go. The other staff seemed overly respectful of him, and we learned why. He was Captain Tom Roth, who is the leader of this ship. From Switzerland with a nautical science degree and 30 years of at-sea experience. Very nice and helpful gentleman. So we took a p...