QUEEN MARY 2 - DAY 8 - DISEMBARKATION DAY AND TRAVEL HOME

Before dinner last evening we went to the Queens Grill Lounge for the final time of the sailing.  This lounge has the feel of a country club lounge as it is not very large and with one bartender and two servers they know you very well. We have the same person taking our drink order and she knows our names, what type of wine each of us enjoy and even what kind of nuts Anne Marie prefers.

Afterwards, we had dinner in the Queens Grill. 

We had pre-ordered most of the items with the Osman the Senior Maître d’Hotel.

Keith decided to have Caviar one final time.  It’s funny because normally Keith will have Caviar maybe once or twice a year and he hadn’t had any at all since our adventure began in early January but this is the third night he has had it.  That will be it until next year.  LOL.

Anne Marie had the French Onion Soup which we had reordered as well.

We then had Ceasar Salad ,which we had preordered.  The salad is made in the Galley but it is something if you wish to have to discuss ahead of time. 

When we spoke with Osman about possible entrees we talked about a couple of options and in the end we said, what do you recommend and he recommended the Lobster American Flambé which he made for us table-side.  This one is with a red sauce. It was very tasty and we loved it.  We also had steam vegetables, and mashed potatoes for Anne Marie and a Baked Potato for Keith.

As you know, our desserts tend to be either fruits for Keith or usually fruit, or some type of sugar free or low calorie dessert for Anne Marie.  Well, for our last night we decided to go bold.  LOL.  We took Osman’s recommendation, which was to have one dessert of Baked Alaska and Cherries Jubilee.  So, let it be known that we caved into temptation with a true dessert. Yes, the real thing.  LOL.

These are some photos from our dinner.

Each night a special appetizer, complements of the Chef,  would be served to begin the meal.    We would have it on most evening's as we did last night.

This was the Caesar Salad that each of us enjoyed.

Our Sommelier throughout the cruise; Dickson from India.

Before the Maitre d' arrived to prepare the Lobster for us our waiter got a few things set up for him.

This is the Lobster that we had for our main entree.

This was the combination of Baked Alaska and Cherries Jubilee.  

Each night small desserts were brought out to the table.  We never had ours but thought it would be nice to post a photo of them.

Last evening we set the clock back another hour so that we would be on Eastern Daylight Time for our arrival to New York City.  We are not used to setting the clock back or forward right before one disembarks let alone right before an arrival to a port but as they say there is always a first time.  It was nice to do this as we knew disembarkation day is a long day with our travel back to home.

We were up early and since it was disembarkation day.

Keith went up to the King's Court for Coffee as he normally does.  The difference this time was that many fellow guests were out and about.  When Keith arrived back to the room we had just passed by the Statue Of Liberty but Keith was able to get a couple of photos.  It was overcast and rainy but nevertheless the Status Of Liberty looked very welcoming to not only us but to so many people who arrived to the United States in past years to settle here.

The Queens Grill was open at 6:30 AM for breakfast rather than the customary time of 8:00 AM.  

We arrived right at 6:30 AM and there were quite a lot of passengers already there.  This was the busiest that we had seen this room for breakfast since we had our first breakfast there.  We had our customary breakfast of cereal, bananas and some stewed prunes for Keith and then we said our farewell to the waitstaff who took great care of us throughout the voyage.

We were given priority disembarkation and could be off the ship as early as 8:00 AM and at around that time we did disembark the ship.  There were very few porters so we took the bags ourselves and getting through immigration/customs was a breeze.  We were ahead of schedule for our private vehicle pickup but when Keith called the company they checked and said the driver would be there in a couple of minutes and that was the case.  He drove us to the airport and that is where we are now sitting as we post this.  We will spend most of the day at the airport but we are at an airport lounge so we know the time will pass quickly.

We will post more when we are home including a final post about our experience sailing on the Crystal Serenity.

Keith & Anne Marie