Well! Did we sleep in this morning!! We were so exhausted last night, Tom was asleep by 9 and me soon after. I awoke at 5, which is not unusual for me, but after an hour or so I went back to sleep and Tom woke again at 9am! We had missed breakfast in the dining room and we knew we would miss one of the guest lecturer talks! We hastily showered, shaved and shampooed and left for La Terazza up on deck 7. As we emerged from our room our butler spied us and expressed concern that he hadn't had a chance yet to chat to us about our preferences - we explained that we were on our way to breakfast and that we then wished to attend the talk about our first port of call in Mexico, so we made an appointment to catch up at 11.30am! Breakfast was wonderful! La Terrazza is an Italian restaurant by night but the buffet restaurant for breakfast and lunch. It was nothing like any of the buffet restaurants we've seen on any other cruise ship. It was quiet and refined, with no children running amok anywhere! The smoked salmon on bagels was already constructed, and the other food was just as you would find in a five star hotel, but as you emerge from the buffet area your waiter comes over and takes your plate over to the table! After breakfast we went up to the lounge to listen to an expert talk about our first port of call. It was very enlightening. It's amazing that we'd never heard of Cabo before, but in the past week I've heard it referred to twice in movies (once in the one about the wedding dates, and the other time in - can't remember, something I saw recently). We returned to our stateroom and our butler duly arrived. He asked us about the bathroom amenities (Bulgari will do nicely thank you, no, not the Ferragamo) and our drinks preferences. We told him a bottle of champagne could come in handy, that Tom's beer of choice at the moment is Corona (probably the proximity to Mexico influencing him) and that we don't mind a single malt whisky. After chatting to Yogesh the butler we went down to the bar on Deck 5 for a martini tasting. This was a fun get together with a dozen or so other people while the bar man talked to us about the different martinis, and showed us how to make them. During the course of the talk we had three mini martinis - the dry one the we are accustomed to making at home with just gin (they used Bombay sapphire Aaron, not Tanqueray!), vermouth and olives, the cosmopolitan one, made with grey goose vodka, Demi sec and cranberry juice, and a chocolate martini using absolute vanilla vodka and other ingredients - I kept the recipes. We had a lovely time and got to know some lovely Texans: Bill, an ex-fighter pilot, his lovely wife of 8 months Wendy, and his former mother in law Merrilyn, the mother of his deceased first wife but good friend and travelling companion to both of them. They met Wendy on a Silverseas cruise some time ago. The barman said he could easily remember our names because we were like a Tom Collins drink!! We then went down to level four to the dining room where we had a most amazing lunch - I had smoked salmon marinated in a light Dijon mustard, while Tom had Italian meatballs. This was followed for me with spaghetti with clam sauce, and a Cobb salad for Tom, followed by chicken Oscar for both of us - chicken with crab meat. Tom then had some chocolate concoction for dessert while I had pink champagne sorbet. Remember, the servings ARE quite small. And the champagne today was Heidsieck! As lunch was finishing the lovely couple at the next table started chatting to us - Paul and Laura from Canada, just west of Toronto. They were really interesting and invited us to join them in the bar before dinner any time we like! After lunch I had a look at the shops and then we went up to the observation deck which is right at the front of the ship. It was lovely and very quiet. They have a 24hour coffee station up there and another small library (the main one is downstairs). While we were there, Cheryl and Grahame from Sylvania came in, the lovely couple we met at the sail away party last night. We chatted to them for ages, and then when we said we were going down to the high tea at 4 they decided to join us. High tea was just delightful, and we met an enchanting Irish lady from Belfast name Joy. On our way out of high tea we saw Bill, Wendy and Merrilyn again who introduced us to a lady from Brisbane. We returned to our cabin for a nap before dinner, and for Tom to iron his shirt in case we are successful in gaining a booking at Le Champagne - the extra cost French restaurant. Our butler rang to tell us that we were indeed successful and we managed to fit in a one hour nap before preparing for dinner. Dinner was extremely wonderful. We had hors d'ouvres, and then I had caviar with traditional accompaniments (Tom had a fresh tuna dish), followed by lobster bisque (Tom had Dover sole bisque) - very cheekily presented, mine as some medallions of lobster in a bowl, Tom's as a wedge of Camembert in a bowl, which then had the soups poured over them at the table. Tom then had the venison in puff pastry and I had a wonderful lobster Thermidor. For dessert Tom had crepes Suzette, and I had grand marnier soufflé. They also brought out some petit fours. This was all accompanied by Heidsieck champagne and the some muscat to finish. There are only 7 tables in the restaurant, and there were 16 people dining. It was very attentive service - 3 waiters. When we returned to our room we found that we had a bottle of Glen Livet single malt, a bottle of Heidsieck and some Coronas in the fridge (along with the still and sparkling water, the cokes and other soft drinks). Lovely! We love the friendliness of the other guests, and the fact that the ship's company makes the guests stick to the dress code (no admittance to the restaurants without a jacket for the men tonight). We also love the fact that the ship is so small that everything is nearby - you don't have to set out from your room 20 minutes before a lecture. It has been another wonderful day!