For dinner almost every night Michael has a big custom made salad. It always has walnuts, blue cheese and parmesan cheese. And he might add a protein from the menu like scallops or pork bellies. We learned that a server named Gracie from Mexico makes them for him. This morning we saw her at breakfast so we were able to thank her directly and she was tickled to meet the salad man.
Akaroa is a tendering port so we waited until about 10:00 before getting tickets. We forgot about the Elite benefit of priority tendering until we got to the front of the line for tickets. We were able to join other Elites and get right on the tender without tickets which was nice. Apparently ships haven't been able to go directly into Christchurch since the earthquake not long ago so Akaroa has become the alternate port. Christchurch is about 90 minutes away by car so we just wandered around here. There is a French influence since it was originally settled by French in the 1840s. It's very small but nice. We popped into the supermarket and discovered that prices for food are quite high., e.g. a dozen eggs for about US$4.50 Gasoline runs about $5-6 a gallon so it's not inexpensive to live in New Zealand.
After returning to the ship we just relaxed talking with other passengers before dinner and another early night back to the cabin for reading and watching a movie. Tomorrow is Dunedin.
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