Capital: Atlantis?
Population: Lots of fish
Language:
Location: The Caribbean Sea stretches
from the West Indies to Central America and the north coast of South America.
Size: 970,000 square miles
We
spent the day at sea trying to earn the last of those ShipShape dollars
so that we could redeem them for stuff (we're suckers when it comes to
things like this.. we'll do quite a lot to get free stuff). The activities
were pretty quick and painless though. We generally did the morning exercises
each day for a couple of ShipShape bucks (a good thing to do anyway after
all the food we'd been eating on the cruise!), then random activities like
this ring toss competition. Not a bad view while waiting to see if Herky
makes the toss (I already struck out long ago). Herky came in 2nd place.
Although
the buffets each night were all pretty good, the real showcase was the Gala
Buffet, where the chefs went all out to not only create delicious foods,
but to use food for sculpting amazing pieces. We joined in the frenzy of
taking pictures of everything edible (it's easy to get carried away, but
at least we didn't take videos of the food..). Then of course, we got back
in line to actually eat the food. Scary amounts of stuff - a cruise is
NOT the place to be on a diet - don't even try. Here are some samples.
This picture features a miniature of our cruise ship sculpted from butter,
floating in a blue jello sea with palm trees made of limes and carrots.
Okay, so this one was more for show than for eating - we admit the idea
of butter and blue jello is not particularly appetizing.
Desserts
in the foreground; a unicorn sculpted from butter in the back, along with
one of the 100 or so chefs on board.
These
flower petals are made from thinly sliced pieces of beets. Didn't see many
people rushing to munch on these... guess the chocolate stuff tasted better.
:)
