Royal Caribbean Cruise Legend of the Seas Day 3

Day 3 - 7 Dec 2011
Cruise was scheduled to arrive at 1pm at Phuket. Patong Beach. However, unlike Port Klang, where there is a port for the ship to dork at, we had to take a tender boat out to the beach because the Thai government did not want to ruin the beach line of Phuket. The beach was an attraction for many tourists to enjoy water activities as well as for suntanning etc. yep, so no port! pretty cool experience! 9.30pm was the last tender of which we have to be back by then cause the ship will set sail. so we had half a day at Phuket.

Breakfast! :) at Windjammer Cafe. Buffet! I had scrambled egg with shrimp...

wholemeal bread and banana muffin...

and after that i had fruits! so healthy ahh.. ha

and i found bagels!! :D i love bagels! had more scrambled egg...

my mum's choice. she likes asian food, like noodles etc, there's noodles and congee everyday too for those who likes asian food. but the asian veges like kong xin cai are not very nice. the salad is really good though.

then we went for a Early Riser Trivia at 9am. we love trivia!! this time no other persons joined, and the Cruise Staff called Gina, a South Korean (whom became my Favourite Cruise Staff), carried on with just my family! haha and then at the end of it, she gave each of us a Royal Caribbean Travel Pouch, which was really cool! very useful :) and unique. ha and then later in the day and the next day we saw her again, and decided to take photo with her cause she's so cute, friendly and pretty!

headed for a Bingo session after the Early Riser Trivia, and for USD23, you get four games, each game with 6 sets of 5x5 numbers, (this is 3 sets of 5x5 numbers for the first game). my dad decided to just join in for fun, cause Bingo was the THE game onboard, and my sis wanted to play. yep!

The Bingo Counter. and there is my Favourite Cruise Staff at the counter again! haha

after that, we went for lunch at noon so that

i love love love pastries so i had them every meal!! so many varieties to choose from!
chocolate mousse and blueberry cake

then i took the smoked salmon sandwich as well! yea yea bread~~

my meal-ly dosage of veges and fruits

my sis's meal

and so we're arriving at Phuket!!

taking the tender boat away from the Legend of the Seas ship

We arrived at Patong Beach!

we had booked a land excursion tour (onboard the ship) which was USD25/pax. 

and we went to the Promthep Cape which overlooks the Andaman Sea and Hai Harn Bay.

Four-faced Buddha

Wat Chalong Monastery - Phuket's largest and most sacred temple. best known for its gold leaf encrusted statues of three former abbots. i enjoy going to temples, cause it makes me feel good, am a believer of Buddhism!

Cashew Nut Factory. Our tour guide, Sally, well-versed in Thai, English, and Chinese, explaining to us the process of making cashew nuts.

lotsa different flavours of cashew nuts for you to try!

then we headed to this place which sells handicraft (like diamonds, gold etc etc) which we had to make an appearance, you know those promotions, before heading to the last stop - Central Shopping Mall. the things in this mall is pretty expensive!! like shopping at Orchard Road. didn't need 1.5hrs there actually.

the traffic back to Patong Beach was really heavy!! cause of the bad road structure. only one lane! and it was a main road, the only route that you can use to get back to the beach.

the night life begins.

back to our boat! we did not shop at Patong Beach, cause it was getting quite dark (was around 7.30pm), and the weather was too hot. Sally said the goods in Patong Beach were all imitation, including human beings! ahha she meant those ah guas.. haha so funny. nothing's exactly on my shopping list, so it was alright. she also mentioned that there are two kinds of Thai massage available, one is those with big fat women doing the professional massage without oil, and the other type is the naughty naughty kind. haha Sally is very engaging! haha

by the time we settled down and had dinner it was almost 8.45pm. I felt quite dry and still a bit full from lunch, so I ordered Greek salad for appetizer.
Greek salad - Ripe tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, slightly salty feta cheese and olives tossed in red wine vinaigrette

Tomato, Basil and Mozzarella Calzone - Baked golden and served with cherry tomato and garlic confit salsa

Low-Fat Apple Cake - This wheat cake is topped with apples and served on an almond biscuit

My sister's pick: Cream of Pumpkin - Candied walnuts and a dash of sour cream

Shrimp & Mahi-Mahi Tempura - Lightly coated in tempura batter, fried golden and served with stir-fried vegetables and chili-lime plum sauce

Chocolate Brownie Sandwich - Dark bittersweet chocolate mousse wedged between layers of chocolate brownie

after the dinner, my dad and I went to watch Burlesque (by Christina Aguilera) that they had for us. we watched the last 1hr because by the time we were done with dinner, it was already 1hr into the movie. heard a lot about the movie, but realized it's not my type of movie.  

Dancing Under the Stars Music + Dance + Buffet through the night by the poolside (at 10pm). of course I did not queue up to get food again (this is not the way to get fat man!) but all the food looks really good!

so many people enjoying the festive atmosphere~~

and so that concludes the third night. it began raining not long after I took photos and was people-looking that it started raining! and the emcee said the rain ain't stopping them and they're going to party on. I went back to my room, so I had no idea how long the party continued for/ how huge the rain was.