Some little trips

Friday We were too late for breakfast in the Main Dining Room again so we headed to the Windjammer. It was after 10 when we got there and much quieter, it helped that we got a table on the opposite side of the room from the music playing in the entry! I had toast, pastry and fruit / granola while Rob had an omelette as usual. We must have popped back downstairs for some reason (maybe shopping) so we picked me up a coffee and then spent some time in the solarium. It was lovely and sunny, which we hadn't anticipated so we eventually got too hot as we were wearing our jeans! We decided to get Johnny Rockets for lunch which we took to our room, this was really good and I was super excited to get another American treat  We sat on the balcony for a couple of hours - it was so warm it was lovely. We did some packing before a final dinner at Coastal Kitchen. Rob had lamb, I had pork and then I had the Royal chocolate cake while Rob had cheesecake. It was all amazing. We headed back to fini...

Thursday Another late start this morning (we are really getting into this holiday routine now!) so we missed breakfast (we could have gone to the Windjammer but decided against it). We headed off the ship today, mainly in search of the  Disney store  as we haven't ever had one locally and I wanted to pop into one before they closed. We clearly made a mistake in our selection of days to get off the ship as the forecast today was for rain and before we had got very far it had started - thankfully it was light at this point. We found the  Disney store  and had a little look around, it was a little bit sad but we bought a couple of pins and a bargain top for Rob (there were none that would have fitted me). We got a snack from Greggs as we had skipped breakfast (sausage roll and doughnut) and looked around a few more shops. The rain got heavier rain so we bought an umbrella in Sports Direct and then the rain stopped a few mins later  We headed back to the ship, buyin...

Wednesday This morning we had an even later start - we arrived in Liverpool at around 0800 not that we were really aware of the ship docking. We had breakfast in the Windjammer as we were too late for the MDR, the food was good but it was a little noisy so we planned to go back to the MDR for the next day. For some reason I have forgotten photos again - Rob had an omelette and I had toast and some fruit and yoghurt. After breakfast we enquired about booking Coastal Kitchen for dinner - as we were in a Junior Suite we could only book dinner and only if they had space (but of course numbers on this cruise were so low that they had space!) We wandered around the ship and got coffee which we drank in Two70 - I'm fairly sure we watched some performers rehearsing. We had an appointment at the ‘next cruise’ desk at 1130, not really sure what the point of booking was as we waited 20 mins past our time before someone was available, we got prices for several options (Alaska, Florida and a cr...

Tuesday This morning we had breakfast at 0830 before getting ready to leave the ship for a few hours. I had a fruit plate and toast and I'm sure Rob had an omelette but I don't seem to have taken a photo. We took the shuttle into Belfast which was $15 each, oddly (with all the enforced distancing on board) we were reasonably well packed into our bus and apparently some people couldn't wear masks despite being reminded that NI still required them. We walked from the tourist info centre towards the waterfront and the sun even came out for a little bit. We found a shopping centre and took a look in a few stores, although we didn't buy anything. We walked around for a while longer - Rob used to travel to Belfast regularly for work so wanted to show me a few places. We decided on Five Guys for lunch (a little taste of the USA) as we don't have one any where near us; it was good but the fries were a bit too salty. We took the shuttle back to the ship at around 1330, buyin...