Queen Mary 2: Day 1-2

June 8, 2010

Yesterday I sailed away from Brooklyn’s port in the Queen Mary 2. It was the perfect day to sail off, nice warm weather and bright blue skies. I sat in one of the lawn chairs on deck 7 (the promenade) and watched as we passed the statue of liberty (yes, I did take many pictures). People on the ferries and other boats waved as they passed by, even the NYPD helicopter flying by waved, which I thought was quite funny! The couple sitting next to me were strange characters. The man wanted to go to deck 12 and see the ship go under a bridge, and the kept calling to his wife Martha, Martha, are you sure you don’t want to see this, it’s a few in a lifetime event, Martha, come on Martha! It was really humorous. She did eventually go up. Their was this really nice sailboat passing the Statue of Liberty, it looked as if it had come out of “The Pirates of the Caribbean”. It was a very pleasant departure.
Dinner in the Britannia restaurant was a bit interesting. When I got their, I met a man in his 40’s who was already at my table from Australia (named Mark). A few minutes later an older man arrived, I would guess he was in his late 70’s early 80’s. He asked me my name and I had tp repeat it several times, finally I spelled ou S-A-S-S-I, then he got it. We ordered out food (which was absolutely exquisite, and then the last man who showed up came. He’s from Florida and strikes me to be as crazy as the risk taker in the movie “When I met Polly” (or whatever its called) He kept yelling out Yee-haw after random sentences when he spoke. A very strand character indeed. He said he wants to go paragliding in the Alps(he’s like 70-80 also). I think he may be a crazy old man. Anyway, I ordered Chicken consommé soup and port loin, both of which were excellent.
My Stateroom is small, but nice. My stewards name is Edwin and he makes my room up every day! When I first got in, their was a bottle of what I thought was Sparkling Cider, but to my disappointment, I reread the label and it was actually wine. The Canapés were interesting tasting. I didn’t eat the raw salmon ones, they looked gross. there is a slight swaying of the boat, which a really dislike, but other then that, the trip has been so far good!

Today I just went on the promenade, sat and started reading “Dear John”. I also saw a show entitled “Crazy in Love” (dancing musical), which was quite good I thought. Dinner was tasty. One of the guys at my table wondered why they don have baskets of bread out on the tables, and the crazy man answered him; “Its because people like me take the baskets!” I found that to be quite a funny joke (or who knows, he might actually do it, he is strange enough I wouldn’t put it past him.)