Hat-urday 🎩 Night Fever

Saturday, December 28th, 2019 was a restful sea day or was it.  It was also Grandma 🎩‘s 80th Birthday.  

Here is how the night ended at midnight doing Silent Disco.  Good god how did we get here?  Let’s back this story up a little bit.  

I was up early and walked laps for a little bit.  After a quick bite it was time for our behind the scenes tour of the ships entertainment and live show production.  

First things first, we need a tiara and a sash. Now we can tour the back stage areas.

If you see a blue floor on the boat.  You have strayed from the path.  The blue floor designates crew only areas.

Alex showing us The Pit.  How he raises  and lowers this in the center of the stage.  The safety feature involved.  I was incredibly interesting.  Alex trained in London at London Music College and Academy.  He was on the road with Florence and the Machine before taking this job.  Really a great dude.  Clearly knows rule #1: Remain calm

Grace is tired next to this huge set piece for the boats production called Toppers.

Heavy dress from the production

Who wore it better? #1

Or #2.

After our tour the girls decorated Grandma 🎩 room.

Signs were made.

The cake:  Raspberry Chocolate.  So good!!!

The cards from around the 🌎 

Grandma 🎩, TB and LB.  Happy Birthday Grandma 🎩.

Celebrating

Ismar came to celebrate with Grandma 🎩.  Thanks for all the love Ismar!!!!

Chilling in the Solarium.  Looking good Grandma 🎩.

After the Solarium it was time for dinner.  We had arranged a Chef’s table dinner for the adults.  That includes Elle.  We met for a little bubbly first then the chefs introduced themselves and discussed what our experience for the evening would be.

The chefs discussing what we will be doing and eating this evening.

Our main man, Chef Maurice some call him the gangster of sauce.

Chef Maurice escorting Grandma 🎩 to dinner.

Chef Maurice explaining how the kitchens/galleys work to serve such a large group so well.

Wait staff getting meals off the line. Maurice helping us stay out of the way.

Chef Maurice showing us where Chef Claudio makes all the bread and pastries.  

Adults doing things Adults do!!!!  Look at us beings so very adult.

The menu.

Curried Cauliflower Soup.

Mushroom risotto with foam.  Amazingly good. Amazingly good

Sea bass

Short rib on the left.  Thin sliced stacked and pressed potatoes in the middle and a filet on the right.  The short rib was the star of this show.


Grandma Hat gets a cake from Chef Claudio.

Elle has had enough to eat.  The gangsters of sauce, meat, fish, soup and dessert have declared victory over us.

After our 4 hour dinner the night couldn’t end so we decided to try a little silent disco to finish our day #1 of being 80 years old.

Mary and Sadie shaking it

Grandma 🎩 , the kids grooving.  TB is in the back listening to techno he is dancing so fast he is blurry in this picture.

That is it for 12/28/2019.  Put this one in the books and mark it because we pretty much killed it all day long.