“the Big One”! World Cruise on Sojourn

[Isklaar]

1 hour ago, pyffii said:

Kings Park is truly stunning and glad that you got to visit there as well as Freo….pity you didn’t get the chance to watch a REAL football match 😝😝

 

No no. REAL football is Association Football of course 😀

[shark b8]

Uh oh.   I sense a Disturbance In The Force.  😯⚽🏉🏈

[shark b8]

Including today, 14 out of the next 20 days are sea days.  Might be a little quieter than usual ‘round these parts.

[Mr Luxury]

27 minutes ago, shark b8 said:

Including today, 14 out of the next 20 days are sea days.  Might be a little quieter than usual ‘round these parts.

You can report back on the chair hogs

[goaliedad30]

Thankful to say that there hasn't seemed to be any sort of chair availability problem ... Although ash blond/blue eyed me doesn't really spend that much sun worshipping time  ....

[shark b8]

Yeah, since we’re lucky enough to home-base in Hawaii we’re blessed with sunshine almost all the time, so don't feel a particular need to seek it out.  It was pretty hot in Central/South America, and has been pretty cold some of the last week or so in Oz, so I suppose sun-chair-competition varies greatly.  Haven’t noticed any chair-hogging, but haven’t really been looking. 

 

Meanwhile…..the First Mate ordered (*shudder*) beets tonight.  Rumors of divorce proceedings are in the air.  (along with the odor of beets).  😱

[shark b8]

[highplanesdrifters]

22 hours ago, shark b8 said:

Award winning photo!

[shark b8]

Keller’s rib dinner at the Colonnade tonight.  Ribs are tasty, although I’m one of those people who bristles at the “fall off the bone” description.  For me, ribs should still have a slight “tug”, at least that’s how we do it.  But the starting salad…..I just don't get it.  We love dinner at the TKG and go as often as we can reserve, but the opening salad for the Colonnade rib dinner is a leaf/stalk of romaine, with some sliced radishes and small cubed (*ahem*) BEETS 🤮, and a tasteless dressing that it is infused with some sort of vague green food coloring, to allow it to be called “Green Goddess”.  OK, Keller-salad-defenders, have at it, tell me why I’m wrong.

 

 

[SLSD]

Not the dreaded beets again Shark b8!  How much torture will you have to endure?  I can't even stand to see them on a plate!

Edited March 22, 2023 by SLSD

[Mr Luxury]

4 minutes ago, SLSD said:

Not the dreaded beets again Shark b8!  How much torture will you have to endure?  I can't even stand to see them on a plate!

Please can we have Beet free boards.

[iramack]

7 hours ago, Mr Luxury said:

Please can we have Beet free boards.

To Quote the famous and now very deceased Michael Jackson......."Just Beet It!"

 

Meantime I Love the damn things!! Especially the ones in the salad bar at my local Dallas "institution" Dunston's Steak House !!

[Mr Luxury]

2 minutes ago, iramack said:

To Quote the famous and now very deceased Michael Jackson......."Just Beet It!"

 

Meantime I Love the damn things!! Especially the ones in the salad bar at my local Dallas "institution" Dunston's Steak House !!

Very strange 😁

[tjcox9]

2 hours ago, iramack said:

To Quote the famous and now very deceased Michael Jackson......."Just Beet It!"

 

Meantime I Love the damn things!! Especially the ones in the salad bar at my local Dallas "institution" Dunston's Steak House !!

I've been enjoying the humor, but also must take serious offense at the beet hatred I am detecting on this thread! Having grown up with the last name almost identical to beet, just one letter off and getting referred to as beatnik, perhaps you can understand.

 

Also, I grew up eons ago on a nearly self sustaining farm in fly over country in the US and one of many staples were beets. we had pickled, boiled and harvard beets. If they are so awful, how the heck did they get a name for a preparation named for such a venerable institution?? 

 

So glad Seabourn is taking me back to my roots! More beets please............

 

 

Edited March 23, 2023 by tjcox9

[goaliedad30]

To lighten it up a bit, here's last night's sunset. Although there are some beet red hues in there ... I'm here all week ... 😁

[lincslady]

Lovely photo - looks almost as good as a b**t.

[florisdekort]

We loved the salad 🫣 But then again I like beets. The ribs were amazing. We ordered seconds. 

[Mr Luxury]

I can see a Beet themed cruise coming

[goaliedad30]

I'm happy to report that tonight's O-Bar nibbles included a large tray of cubed beets!

[Mr Luxury]

4 minutes ago, goaliedad30 said:

I'm happy to report that tonight's O-Bar nibbles included a large tray of cubed beets!

I hope they have sick bags with the horses douvries

[lincslady]

What is this newfound interest in 'beets'  by the ship's chefs about?  Never remember seeing them on any menu on any ship a few years ago.  Are they the new superfood, maybe?  If so it is hard luck for the majority who hate them.

[SLSD]

21 minutes ago, lincslady said:

What is this newfound interest in 'beets'  by the ship's chefs about?  Never remember seeing them on any menu on any ship a few years ago.  Are they the new superfood, maybe?  If so it is hard luck for the majority who hate them.

I've been wondering the same thing.  I don't recall seeing beets on SB either.  They do seem to be a popular item in many restaurant salads lately.  Such a shame.  

[Mr Luxury]

35 minutes ago, lincslady said:

What is this newfound interest in 'beets'  by the ship's chefs about?  Never remember seeing them on any menu on any ship a few years ago.  Are they the new superfood, maybe?  If so it is hard luck for the majority who hate them.

It's because they are cheap.

[shark b8]

(hee hee hee). My diabolical plan is working.  Once I get the both the proletariat and the bourgeoisie worked up about beets, my movement steathily shifts to a horizontal revolutionary action against Brussels sprouts.  They are, after all, the only two known foodstuffs obviously & directly attributable to Satan.  Mrs Sharkbait really didn't like the Brussels sprouts at TKG tonight.  One battle at a time.  Eaters of the world, unite!

[shark b8]

Back to reality - the TKG is doing far more “specials” than we remember, rather than just the standard menu.