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,...
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