The Crown Grille

 December 24, 2023

I spent most of the day in our stateroom, trying to feel better, but came out for our first (of two) specialty meals aboard ship at the Crown Grille - the ship's fancy steakhouse. Service was excellent and the meal was divine!

The Crown Grille!

I had a tiger prawn appetizer and Carl had the sea scallops - both were delicious and well presented!

Tiger Prawns with Papaya Salpicon

For the main course, I had the filet mignon and Carl had the surf & turf - the filet mignon with a lobster tail.  Oh my gosh, the meat was so tender!

For dessert, I ordered the apple rhubarb cobbler with vanilla ice cream and Carl got a caramel creme brulee cheesecake (he won!)

Carl's surf n' turf!

After dinner, we wandered over to the Vista Live theatre where they were playing a game called "Little White Lies."  They had 3 crew members who each were given some question to answer about themselves.  But one of them was fibbing.  People had to guess who was telling the lie (put a ticket in their bucket) and then there was a drawing from the bucket of the person who had been telling a "white lie" and that person (the one who had guessed correctly) won a bottle of wine.

When that was over, we went off to our evening's entertainment, which was a fellow doing a tribute to Johnny Cash.  He had a great voice and boy, could he sing low!

I had plans to stay up and go to the midnight Christmas service on the ship, but I was feeling so bad, I just finished the show and went back to our stateroom, took my last meds for the day and went to bed!

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