Sailing Like a Celebrity -- Day 7

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Day 7 -- Bermuda
Mostly sunny, low to mid 70s

Up to Oceanview Café for breakfast. I decided to have pancakes. On previous cruises, I've enjoyed fruit pancakes or pancakes with a fruit compote. So I got blueberry pancakes on this morning. But they were definitely not what I've come to expect. They were essentially a plain pancake with a circle of blueberry jam in the center. I didn't like it. You're basically eating a plain pancake except for the two bites in the middle. Not great.

Yes, this is a blueberry pancake. Weird, right?

After breakfast, I went back to the room and watched our approach to King's Wharf from our balcony. We arrived in Bermuda at 11 am instead of scheduled 3:30 pm arrival time. This was because we'd been sailing faster than normal throughout the previous day. Once we docked, we had a quick, light lunch and disembarked before noon. We had scheduled a shore excursion later in the afternoon, but I still wanted to do our normal walking tour of the area near the port. We walked to the Clock tower market and walked through a few of the shops. Then we stopped in at Snorkel Park beach. They charge a nominal fee to sit outside the bar, and we walked the beach and stuck our toes in the water.

We stayed for a couple of hours, then took a different path back to the port, stopping in at some other shops. One of these shops had "Bermuda's only cigar roller". He was selling Cuban cigars, as well as his own hand-rolled cigars. I work with a cigar enthusiast, so I bought a few to bring home for him.

We were docked next to the NCL Prima for the day. The Prima was scheduled to leave port at 3 pm. However, they were still in port when we were walking back to the Summit at 4. There was a large group of Summit passengers standing around at the entrance to the pier, so we asked what was going on. Apparently, there were 2 Prima passengers who hadn't returned to the ship yet, and the crew was searching for them. We didn't hang around, but learned later that the Prima had left port without the late passengers. One of the people who had waited outside said that the stragglers had thought that the Prima was staying in port overnight. That's a pretty big -- and expensive -- mistake.

Our excursion was scheduled to leave at 5:30, so we grabbed a quick bite to eat at the poolside grill. They serve burgers and hot dogs with fixings like grilled onions, mushrooms, etc. So we got cheeseburgers and fries. Then we met up for our Pirate Glass-bottom Boat excursion. This was a 3 hour excursion, where they took us out to see fish and shipwrecks through the bottom of the boat. They turned on some lights to give a better view. Lots of fish were visible and the history of the shipwreck was interesting to hear.

Looking down through the glass bottom:

We got back to the Summit at about 8:45, which gave the girls just enough time to run to the theater to see the 9pm showing of the Frankie Valli tribute. The show had been scheduled for earlier in the cruise, but had been pushed back due to an illness. Kathryn said the music was great, but there was WAY too much talking between songs. By the end of the show, the high tenor sounded pretty shot; so Kathryn guessed that he'd been the one who was sick earlier in the week -- and also maybe the reason there was so much talking during the show.

The Summit has an agreement with the port that allows them to open the casino after a certain time, even though they're still in port. So I went down to see if I could sit in on a poker game; but there weren't enough players interested, so there was no game. So instead, I sat at the Casino Bar, got a whiskey sour, and watched the Knicks lose Game 6 to the Heat. Turns out that there was a fun little group of people that hung out at that bar to watch games, so it was a fun way to end the day. Had to walk through the Martini Bar to get to the elevator and saw everybody dancing with the silent disco headphones on.