The Pinnacle of eating at the Pinnacle Grill

Christmas 2006

Breakfast specials Day 4

I gave Bob his presents in the morning. The trivia was all Xmas related. It was very hard.

Belgium Endive and Baby Spinach salad for lunch

Mushroom and onion burger with twice fried potatoes

We went to hear the speaker and they were having trouble getting the projection system working, I was in the computer area on deck 8 when the talk was to start, so I walked forward to the theatre balcony and when I walked in the technician was lying flat on the balcony railing with his head over the railing and only his feet over the balcony. Not an OSHA authorized position. But he didn't fall.

Lecturer

The speaker was an anthropologist with long (down to the middle of his back) grey hair and a beard - he was an anthropologist, but the Caribbean was not his area of expertise and Bob said it was like he had read a book about it before he came on cruise.

On the phone by the Gingerbread House

They have a gingerbread house in the main dining room and are singing carols.

Setting sun

At dinner, I had

Lobster Medallion Parisenne

for an appetizer - the lobster was in chunks on a half lobster shell (lengthwise). Bob had Hazelnut Crusted Camembert which I didn't think he would like and he didn't. We had to have turkey for dinner of course.

For dessert, Bob had the

Santa Sundae

and I had the "Happy Holiday" Chocolate Box.

Happy Holidays

Christmas Gingerbread House with a Turkey

26 December

Breakfast specials Day 5

We did trivia again, and had Sue on our team and a college sophomore named Sean. I named the team "Sean and the Grandparents", and everyone thought Sean was our grandson. It was up in the Crows Nest - we saw a man and boy playing shuffleboard while we played Trivia.

Man and his son playing shuffleboard

They had almost exactly the same questions as they had on December 13th. I remembered most of the answers. So of course we won. I thought it was sort of like cheating, but Sue said that I still had to remember what the correct answers were, which was true. We got mouse pads that you can put a picture of your choice into.

We had lunch in the dining room and I had

Quiche Lorraine

and Bob had the

Pasta Pasta - Tagliatelle with Gargonzola

For dinner we went to the Pinnacle Grill which is the extra price restaurant. This was part of the package that the travel agent got for us.

There were only two couples in the restaurant at 5:30. The almost empty restaurant felt very cold to me.

Charger plate

My reflection

Salt and pepper

They came around and offered us wine

Wine glass

and I think we were a big disappointment to them as we didn't want any. There was an orchid spray on the table - just a little bigger than the orchids on the table up in the Lido buffet.

Orchids on the table

After they came around with the drinks, they brought the cuts of meat on the menu to the table (raw).

Raw steaks

Then they served us with a tiny plate of appetizers before the regular appetizers - one shrimp, a tiny little quiche and something in a spoon that I'm not sure what it was.

Pre-appetizers

I had the

Dungeness Crab Cakes

for the regular appetizer. There were two of them - each about the size of a tater tot. Bob had the

King Salmon

as his entree and I had the smallest cut of beef they had which was a Filet Mignon Petite Cut.

Filet mignon

It was about 3" thick and about 3" in diameter. We both ordered asparagus as a side,

Asparagus

but I also ordered spinach which was something of a mistake because it was too much to eat.

Spinach with cheese crisp

It came with a cheese crisp - it was as if they had grated some cheese on a grill and then scraped it off and cooled it so that it was a potato chip consistency, but was all cheese. It was very good. Before dessert, they brought a tiny tiered serving stand with 6 chocolates on it.

Chocolate candy

On the bottom was sugar for coffee, but we didn't have coffee either. For dessert, I had the creme brulee,

Three flavors of creme brulee

which was in three sections - one was chocolate, one was coffee and one was regular vanilla. I had so much dinner that I couldn't eat it all even as much as I love creme brulee.

Pastel sunset

Tomorrow: Aruba