Today’s pictures seem to be of nothing but alcohol and desserts, for which I make no apologies
Rest assured, though, I definitely ate other things today
This morning we didn’t have room service. Instead, we headed straight to Parrot Cay again for breakfast. Today they did have French toast so I loaded my plate with a couple of pieces as well as some bacon and sausage. DH had his usual granola, plus the mandatory 2 cups of hot tea.
The French toast was soggy, as if it had been soaked in the egg/batter mixture too long – yeuch! The bacon was good, though – hot and very crispy.
We didn’t linger too long over breakfast – we had an appointment with a beach and a hammock!
On
Castaway Cay later, we ate at the BBQ down by the adults-only beach. Everything from the grill was being cooked to order as there really weren’t many people there. DH and I both had steak and chicken, with some bread and salad offerings (well, I didn’t have salad but DH did). The steak was delicious, cooked and seasoned perfectly, as was the chicken.
For dessert, there were chocolate chip cookies, fresh fruit and soft serve cookie dough ice-cream or strawberry frozen yoghurt. I decided to try and make an ice-cream cookie sandwich.
This would have been perfect if it hadn’t been for two things. A) It was far too hot to be messing around with ice-cream and b) I was much too stuffed from lunch to really enjoy it. I ended up leaving about half of it, in a soggy, melted mess in my bowl.
Feeling really full, we made our way back up to the family beach, got ourselves a drink from the Conched Out bar and DH went for a swim.
Back on the boat, our final meal was at Tritons. Neither DH nor I were keen as the menu did not appeal to us but we didn’t want to miss our last night with our new
DCL ‘family’ so we went anyway. Before dinner, we went to the Promenade Lounge for a couple of drinks. I got a lime daiquiri and DH got a peach one.
My lime daiquiri was almost as yummy as my much-loved Skyy-berry Martini (almost, but not quite). I didn’t care much for the peach one but DH enjoyed it – so much so that he had another and he rarely drinks cocktails.
When we went in for dinner, Grace met us at the door and carried my drink to the table. I felt a bit uncomfortable letting her do it and told her so but she just replied that it was her job to look after us both to the best of her ability and that included carrying my drink. She really was so lovely.
Again, we didn’t bother with appetisers tonight. For entrée, I ordered the chicken and DH opted for lamb shank. I really, really fancied the duck but wasn’t sure about the accompaniments and I didn’t like to be too awkward. One of our table mates ordered the duck, however, and when it came I had serious ‘food envy’. It looked absolutely divine and I really wished I’d gone with my instincts and chosen that instead. He very kindly offered me a couple of bites of his duck and, I must admit, it tasted loads better than it looked. If we ever go on another cruise, I will definitely be getting the duck! DH really enjoyed his lamb. He said it was tender and flavourful, falling easily away from the bone. The accompanying ‘pommes boulangeres’ were delicious too. My chicken was perfectly adequate and, had it not been for my food envy, I am sure I would have really enjoyed it.
I made up for my disappointment by asking Grace if I could ‘mix and match’ desserts. She happily brought me the two I wanted to try, white chocolate dome and honey and cinnamon apple tart.
They were both incredible. The apple tart was an open pie, with thin slices of apple with a honey and cinnamon flavoured jelly/glaze over the top. As for the white chocolate dome, this was also delicious. It was a light and tangy raspberry mousse on the inside, with a layer of white chocolate mousse covering that and a white chocolate coating. Absolutely gorgeous. Can you tell I’m a dessert person
DH ordered the crème brulee. I don’t like crème brulee at all so I didn’t try it but he said it was the best dessert he’d had on the whole trip.
While at the table, I also decided to have another drink. Alfredo recommended a Mojito so I thought I’d give it a try.
For anyone who doesn’t know, this is basically white rum, lime juice and fresh mint all mixed together. It was quite weird tasting with the combination of lime and mint and, I’ll admit, I wasn’t keen at first. Once the mint stopped floating around in the glass, though, it tasted quite nice. DH didn’t like it at all and went back to his staple diet coke.
Although we had been dreading it, I think Tritons actually ended up being our favourite restaurant and we were really glad we’d eaten there.
I’ll end today’s review with a picture of our wonderful servers, Grace and Alfredo.
Total spend today - $41.71 (alcohol, alcohol and yet more alcohol)
Ratings:
BBQ – B+
Tritons – A- (probably would have been an ‘A’ if I’d chosen the right entrée)
I tried both, although the beef was not to my taste. It was far too pink (I like my beef pretty well done) and was very heavily spiced, although I couldnt tell what with. The chicken was delicious, though. Hot, juicy and cooked perfectly. Not at all dry and well seasoned. Again, no pictures I think it was the shock of being presented with two massive plates of food.
I'm a dessert person too.
That's one of my favorite food groups!
