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Tuesday 7 June – part three: a helicopter will be turning up…
As we made our way back to the room, we could see land…
When we got back to the room, we realised it was our first ever glimpse of Denmark, and of course we’d be visiting its capital later this cruise.
We found these in the lobby by the elevators on deck 15, which gives you an idea of the sort of thing the Corning Museum of Glass creates.
We headed back to the room to watch some more episodes of Billions. I tell you, it is really good, and I’m glad we were able to download the rest of the series before we left home.
Occasionally, I’d spot a ship in the distance and get a photo…
… and then I realised there was land in the distance. I tried my phone and it had a signal, and I discovered that was Sweden we could see…
A few minutes later, we heard an announcement from the captain in the tannoy in the corridor. Unlike Disney, there are no announcements at all in your room, except for the first day about the mandatory safety drill. We strained to hear what he was saying. He’s Greek, and he has quite a thick accent, so it is hard to make out what he’s talking about a lot of the time. We finally found the channel on the TV with his announcement on it, and he said that we’d be having a drill, where a helicopter would be turning up.
As he said it, we heard a whirring noise outside, and sure enough, when we looked outside, there was the helicopter:
Mark quickly got ready for dinner, as now he wanted to head up the Sky Lounge earlier than we’d planned to, as it was at the front of the boat overlooking the helipad. I was already ready, so we made our way up there, and of course everyone was crowded around the window, but I still managed to snag some shots of what was going on.
They tried one pass, with the guy standing ready to come out, but obviously something wasn’t right, and they zoomed off, to the sound of disappointment from the Sky Lounge.
A moment later though, they were back to try again, and this time they were successful:
Everyone was cheering and had their phones or cameras out, taking photos, and he decided to repay the compliment back to us!
Then the helicopter was back to take him away again…
Once all the drama was over and done with (I did say it was the best entertainment we’d had on this cruise so far! ), we found a place to enjoy our drinks…
Mark even found a chair that spun round!
We were very impressed that they even came around, offering food:
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Cool little pre-dinner entertainment! It cracked me up that the rescue guy turned his camera on all of you!
Looks like the lounge cleared out once the excitement was gone.
Fun and free entertainment! I love that the guy had a sense of humor to take his own photo too. That's awesome! And Mark continues entertaining with the chair.... nice work Mark!
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What a neat thing to get to experience! I love how you guys are getting good use of their beverage package! That's the one thing I really wish Disney would be better about. It's so much easier not to constantly tally up drink totals in your head!
Fun and free entertainment! I love that the guy had a sense of humor to take his own photo too. That's awesome! And Mark continues entertaining with the chair.... nice work Mark!
You can always rely on Mark for continued entertainment!
What a neat thing to get to experience! I love how you guys are getting good use of their beverage package! That's the one thing I really wish Disney would be better about. It's so much easier not to constantly tally up drink totals in your head!
We did make very good use of it, but in all honesty, thank goodness it was free. If we'd have paid for it, it was a lot of money and I doubt we would've got our money's worth.
The Corning Glass demo looked quite interesting. It's amazing the work that foes into this. I actually saw one of these some years ago in Venice. That was quite a rescue drill with the heli and certainly entertaining! Quite cool with one of the crew taking the photo!
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The Corning Glass demo looked quite interesting. It's amazing the work that foes into this.
I was stunned by that too.
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I actually saw one of these some years ago in Venice. That was quite a rescue drill with the heli and certainly entertaining! Quite cool with one of the crew taking the photo!
We then took the elevator down to deck 5, and walked along that:
We had both already commented that, unless we hadn’t found it yet, there was no “ordinary” shop to pick up any essentials you hadn’t brought with you, like toothpaste or sunscreen. It all seemed to be high end shops with designer products, which held no interest to us.
We then made our way over to QSine, which was the final of the speciality restaurants, and where we’d be eating tonight:
It was certainly unusual inside, and I loved what they’d done with the glasses on the table:
We were given the last window seat, which was very neat.
Even more unusual was the menu:
It set the tone for the whole meal, as this is not an ordinary restaurant, and in fact that’s part of their selling point, and they’re very proud of it. We had to have the menu explained to us by Eddie from the Philippines. By the way, he had no name tag, but this time, I finally remembered someone’s name!
This is what you’re presented with on the front page of the menu, and it is a bit of a guessing game. I did see one icon, second to bottom line, second one in, that to me looked like a combination of a dog and a donkey, and I mentioned this to Eddie. What was it? For tacos! Ok, now this is weird…
Mark thought that Eddie told us to pick five items each, but as they were sharing platters, I thought I heard him say five between us. We ended up with eight, and later on, I clearly heard him say to another couple that it should’ve been five between one couple. Hah – guess who was right!
I had to explain I don’t eat meat, which did limit the choices somewhat, although Mark went for one meat dish that he had to himself. This is where the repeatability factor for me for QSine died. If you eat everything on the menu, then you have a lot of choice. If you don’t, then your choices are severely limited. I think out of the eight choices, there were maybe only another two or three I could have had.
You basically picked the ones you wanted by pressing add to favourites, and when you were done, your server would come and collect one of the iPads (I’m using this as a generic term, as I have no idea whether they were actually iPads or not…) and then put the order through for you. They also decided on the order of your dishes, which I understood, but I would have liked some say in it, as I felt some of the dishes were a bit out of order for me. Personally, I’d have liked the soup and soufflé dish before what I can only term as the appetisers, but that’s just me.
First, this lovely garlic bread was brought out:
Then we got the first three dishes, which were the disco shrimp, which is bouillon poached tiger shrimp, avocado, tomato and celery with cocktail aioli and crunchy topping. Why was it called disco? Well, have a look at the photo and you can probably guess why…
The next one was treseviche, which as you can see from the photo was three separate items – one was tiger shrimp and bay scallops with lemon juice, tequila, cilantro, tomato and jalapeno oil, and I found that a bit too spicy for my tastes – hardly surprising, since I don’t do spicy at all. The next was salmon with yuzu citrus, cucumber, vodka and basil, and this was better. The third option was sea bass with lime, red onion choclo, avocado and EXVOO, and I found the red onion overwhelmed the overall taste somewhat. This wasn’t one of my favourite dishes as a result.
The third item were the sushi lollipops and frustratingly, the menu only told me that they were nigari sushi, although we had four different types. I liked two of them more than the others, and one had a spicy topping. Of course, I would have that last! Again, this was a mixed bag for me.
This also came with wasabi mayo and I immediately told Mark he could try it if he wanted to, but I wasn’t touching it. Well, I certainly wasn’t going to touch it after this reaction when he sampled it…
Anyone else think it was a little hot perhaps?
Next: we’re in Sweden, we’re in Denmark, we’re in Sweden!
Interesting menu gimmick. And given what you've said about the average age of cruisers on this sailing, I do wonder how much extra time is spent trying to explain things.....
I'm guessing you won't be making a return visit to this one?
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I actually saw one of these some years ago in Venice. That was quite a rescue drill with the heli and certainly entertaining! 
Again, this was a mixed bag for me. 
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