I don't have much to say about today's activities, save that we ordered breakfast from room service and went to afternoon tea. But with that being said, that's enough to occupy the better part of a daily post.
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We set our alarms for 8:00, so that we'd be dressed enough for when room service came. Around 9:45, our breakfast came - with hot breakfasts for both of us, some pastries, and a toasted bagel for me. And this breakfast service is complimentary on Cunard. The only thing that didn't come was coffee - we may have forgotten to write it down on the card we hung on the door the day before. There is something very nice about having exactly the food one wants delivered, and not a standard breakfast setup as done on other lines.
Around 11:00, we got out of our room to let the attendant make up the room, and I returned around 1:00 to relax on the bed. (My back has been bothering me for most of the cruise.) RQS returned around 2:30, and we left around 3:15 for afternoon tea service.
Afternoon tea is a daily ritual on Cunard ships. On the Queen Mary 2, it is a special treat, as the wait staff marches into the room from both sides of the room accompanied by music from a pianist on stage who plays all through tea service. The food at tea service is not meant to be a meal. Instead, it is meant to keep a person from feeling peckish before dinner is served. For us, this would be the high point of our day, even though dinner had yet to come. We enjoyed experiencing this ritual, and will likely make it a regular part of our future Cunard trips.
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