We were up early for breakfast before our city tour. Michael is very happy to see not only smoked salmon, but also gravlax at the breakfast buffet. Our excursion was a 4 hour bus tour of Manhattan. Our guide, Jim, was very knowledgeable, but spent a little too much time talking about all the famous people he has met or seen. We made stops at Battery Park for a few minutes and also at the 9/11 memorial site. The High Line park was interesting. It's a park built on the old elevated freight rail line on Manhattan's West side.
We got back to the ship in time for lunch at the buffet and then a quiet afternoon by the pool reading. Dinner was at the other specialty restaurant, The Chef's Table. It's a 5 course set menu with wine pairings and the menu changes every 2 days so you can go more than once. I couldn't even describe the courses, they were so exotic, but one had a goat cheese foam on it. Sounds icky but it was very good. The main course of cod was the weakest since it was sort of bland. I'm sure we'll go again since you can go as often as you like if they have availability.
We sailed out to the harbor during dinner so we were treated to lovely views of the Manhattan skyline and the moon rising which was spectacular since it was nearly full. The captain said we'd have some wind during the night, but we didn't notice any unusual movement, either because it wasn't as windy as forecast or because our low down cabin insulated us from most of it.
One interesting note, Viking doesn't provide life jackets in the cabin but they are handed out at your muster station should the need arise. Not sure how we feel about that. Michael thinks back to the Costa Concordia when they didn't even give the abandon ship order until it was too late for many. He'd like to be able to decide for himself when he needs a life jacket.
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