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i think we are booked on 8204, concierge class, balcony cabin. Is there a good side for viewing entering and leaving ports? How is the view in this area, thanks!

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For me nothing stands out, however whenever I mention soft shell crab, my wife turns blue. She thought she'd try something new, then she wished she didn't.

May I ask what ship served soft shelled crab?

I have lived my entire live on the Shores of the Chesapeake Bay and having great soft shell crab is a delicacy! BUT to me you have to really know how to pick the 'right' crabs so that they are 'really' soft AND cook them just right. Many people and restaurant brag about 'large soft shell crabs' but my Mom taught me that the best ones are the smallest - legal ones that have just sluffed off their hard shell, that is when they are the softest. We always kept a 'live box' tied to the pier and would keep the crabs ready to sluff in their until they sluffed off their hard shell and then eat them. When they are ready to eat, you prepare them, I won't go into that, :), and they you pat them in flour and salt and pepper and fry them in bacon grease. Eat them on good bakery white bread with Eastern Shore tomatoes and lettuce and mayo and they are THE BEST SANDWICH YOU HAVE EVER HAD!!

Also love Cornwell, but Really LOVE Patterson.. I always bring a book if I can, although through the library on the Explorer I read the several Father Dowling Mysteries that were on board...a very easy read.

 

Nothing like a lounge on the deck, a "drink of the day" in my hand and a good book......AHHHH my idea of cruising, I don't care if I never go into port!:p

You are SO right! On our first cruise we were on the Celebrity Summit and I 'found' the wonderful padded, teak lounge chairs in the Solarium Pool area. I took a wonderful swim in that GREAT pool and then went to the Spa Café and got a large glass of iced tea. Sat in one of those lovely lounge chairs that face a wall of glass, where you see nothing but the beautiful Caribbean slipping by! No kids allowed so it was SO peaceful! I sat there the whole afternoon reading! I told me DH that if he was looking for me the rest of the cruise that was where I would be! I was glad I had taken 4 books with me. I always take new books with me and then leave them to the library so I do not have to take them home:D