This would be the first full sea day of our cruise. Nothing to do, and we're doing it well. If the alarm wasn't set, we'd have stayed asleep until lunch. But the alarm was set, and we were up a little after 8:00 am, so that we could have breakfast in the main dining room.
We had to wait 10 minutes to get a seat at a shared table, and we got lucky - our table mate was a nice lady from Buffalo about to have her medical residency in Queens. Most of our chat involved cruising and places to visit, with the cruise lines best for specific routes.
After breakfast, we went back to our room and it hadn't yet been made up. We left the room around 1:00 pm, so that the room steward could make it up. We went to the buffet to kill time, and he hadn't taken care of this by the time we got back. (Several years ago, NCL cut the number of room stewards in half and doubled the number of rooms they service, leaving cruisers with once-daily room servicing.) So we knew he was running late, servicing rooms as they freed up. We simply vacated our cabin at the wrong time for him. So again, we left the cabin for an hour, giving him time to do his job.
Later, we went to Cagney's, the ship's steakhouse, for dinner. Sadly for those who liked the Brazilian BBQ restaurant, Moderno, it is now gone with the 2025 retrofit of the ship, with Cagney's doubling the real estate used for the restaurant. With that out of the way, the food is as good as we remembered it, with beef portions that do more than fill you up - they satisfy a craving for a steak perfectly done.
Once done with dinner, we decamped to a "quiet" area on the ship before going back to our cabin. It was a nice day, a chance to rest without anyone bothering us.
