When we arrived at the dining room it was pretty standard for Conquest class ships.  The typical, large upper and lower tiered dining room.  We were seated at table 100 which was right behind the Maitre’d station (which meant great service).  Three of our table mates were already sitting there when we arrived and four more arrived about 5 minutes after us.  Now, one of the things I overlooked in my excitement of boarding the ship was finding our table immediately upon boarding.  If I had visited the dining room prior to dinner I would have see we were seated at a large table, which is not what we requested.  I had hoped to have a table for just the three of us, but apparently those instructions got screwed up along the way.  Had I wanted, I’m sure the maitre’d Manuel would have changed our seating but since we had already met our table mates I didn’t want to be rude.  In the end it turned out just fine since they were actually really interesting people.

Our waiter was named I. Ketut (aka King Tut).  My memory isn’t the best but I could have sworn he was our waiter on a previous sailing.  I did ask if he was on the Carnival Destiny before (which he was), since we had a waiter named I. Ketut on that ship.  He then informed me that in Indonesia that name is about as common as John Smith is here (epic fail on my part), right ship wrong waiter.  The service was phenomenal, the food was good and the chocolate melting cake was as gooey and delicious as I remember.

After dinner it was off to karaoke where I sang badly but still had fun.  After that it was bingo, I lost badly but had fun and then the welcome aboard show.