Our Life on Queen Victoria
On this posting we thought it would be interesting to give you a peek at life for 57 nights on the QV and immediately realized our limitations with pictures! We wanted to show you our stateroom from the water so we took this picture and circled the room and printed on the pic...well the printing is too small and the circle around the room is gone!

See the ladder in the middle of the black windows at the top? Okay, that's our room directly below the ladder on Deck 8.

On rare occasions Queen Victoria stops at a location where she cannot dock due to depth of water and size capacity at the harbor. In those cases they drop the life boats into the water and ferry us from the anchored ship to the dock area. Here we are anchored in Malaysia.

OKAY..the cat is out of the bag!! The reason we look so "good" in the pictures is because we have had a personal trainer (Brian) since we left Sydney and we have been remarkably faithful to his nutrition diet (ugh!) and we have probably only missed our "written" exercise routine 4 or 5 times. We decided to treat the cruise like one of those high priced California spas where movie stars go to get in shape.

We are treating Phyllis' slot machine addiction by limiting the amount of cash put in my pants pocket when we leave the room for dinner. Sometimes we don't put any money in the pockets and on that night we are BIG winners...it's a fun diversion occasionally.

We were really lucky one day to join 20 others for a personal tour of the main galley (kitchen) with Master Chef Uwe Stiefl, an East German who wowed us with the size of his responsibilities and statistics about food consumption. He uses 36,000 eggs per week!!

We were realy surprised to see Maine lobster tail on our dinner menu! Chester delivers on Thursday! On the day of our kitchen tour lobster was being prepared for dinner. No it is not as good as Barry's but it was a real good second when you are 10,000 miles from Maine.

About every 2 weeks the lesser chefs have carving contests or creative food presentation contests that are displayed in public rooms for our vote and enjoyment. Phyllis is checking out the watermelon carvings.