QUEEN MARY 2 - DAY 4

Last night we had a pre-dinner drink before dinner.  It was the second consecutive formal night of this sailing.  We think the reason for two consecutive formal nights is because on the first of the two consecutive nights there was a Captain’s Reception for those who dine at the Queens and Princess Grill restaurants and last evening the reception was for those who dine in the Britannia Restaurant. 

On this sailing there will be three formal nights and four informal nights.  This reflects a change that was made in the past year to the evening attire whereas in the past this sailing would have had five formal and two informal nights.  

We have had drinks here on two times; the night of embarkation and last night.  The lounge is located right across from where we dine, is relatively quiet and just a nice place to enjoy a pre-dinner drink.  There are more lounges on the QM2 than we can ever remember which we found as we have walked the ship.  They range from lounges that just differ in terms of size and design as well as a Champagne Lounge and a sports bar type of lounge which also at least for lunch featured food and might also serve food other times of the day.

Afterwards, we had dinner in the Queens Grill.  We had pre-ordered both our salad and our main entrée, Beef Wellington,  with the Maitre d’ last evening.

We began our meal with Onion Soup.

Our next course was the Caesar Salad which we pre-ordered.

Our next course was the Beef Wellington. We thought the crust was quite tasty and unique from what we have had in the past, but the beef was on the tougher side.  Nevertheless, we were pleased with our choice.  The waitress came around with different sides so we had mushrooms (spinach for Keith), carrots, broccolie and asparagus. Keith also had the mustard and horseradish and this is a photo of his dinner plate.

This was Anne Marie's Dinner Plate.

Keith had fruit for dessert and Anne Marie had the Low Sugar Chocolate Fudge Brownie with Vanilla Sauce which she also shared with Keith.

We received a commemorative menu at dinner which also included a some pages on the history of QM2.

Good news again.  When we returned back to our room, we set the clocks back an additional hour.  This is the advantage of sailing from West to East.

Also, when we arrived back to our room, we received a table top book about the first ten years of the Queen Mary 2.

We enjoyed breakfast in the Queens Grill.  Our waitress has quickly learned our preferences so she had our items all prepped and that included cereal, bananas and stewed prunes for Keith.  She remembered that we both prefer coffee as well.  Before we left, we looked over the lunch menu and we pre-ordered a nice salad entrée.

After breakfast, Anne Marie walked for close to one hour around two of the decks as she listened to an audio book on her iPhone.  Keith went to the Fitness Center where he worked out for an hour and watched one of the United States based news stations.

We then attended two consecutive lectures.  The first one was about a famous shoe company that many of us have heard of and likely have owned some of their shoes and that was about the history of Clarks.  He covered their good days and the time they went into bankruptcy and the wise decisions that were made to get the company out of bankruptcy.

The next lecture was about packets, clippers and steamers and focused on the companies that competed for domination of the North Atlantic seaway between North America and Europe. 

Both lecturers were quite interesting as was the topics they covered.

A short while later we had lunch at the Queens Grill.  We each had the salad entrees we had ordered.  We had the salad the way we requested it with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, mushroom and carrots and also we had shrimp which had been featured on one of the salad entrees added to the salad.  We both had fruit plates as well.

After lunch, we walked around the ship for about ninety minutes.  We stopped by to watch a portion of a show that was being shown in the theatre.

Although it was more overcast in the afternoon, the seas were relatively calm.

This evening we will be back in the Queens Grill for dinner.  There are some a few entrees like the one we had last night that are offered for dinner but just need to be ordered by lunch.  Keith ordered one called the Taste Of India.  We will share more about this when we post tomorrow.

Keith & Anne Marie