Queen Mary

I went with my friend to the Queen Mary in Long Beach.  I found a Groupon to see the Princess Diana exhibit and figured it’d be a nice outing.  The exhibit was pretty big with a lot of letters, newspapers, plates, dolls and menus.  We learned a lot about the royal family.  They had some of Diana’s and Kate’s dresses on display plus the tiara’s they wore on their wedding days. 

After the exhibit we toured some of the ship and then went to have afternoon tea in the ship’s tea room.  The tea was very small servings for the price but surprisingly filling.  The sandwiches seemed more like crostinis.  We got a choice of two but it was two small circles of bread with a scoop of egg salad on top of one and a scoop of chicken salad on top of the other.  The sandwiches were good but not what I was expecting.  Then we had scones and three bite sized desserts.  All in all, I’d say the tea isn’t really worth the cost but it was a nice experience. 

After tea we finished exploring.  We went out to the front of the ship and also down into the engine room.  The ship was surprisingly empty so it was actually kind of creepy down in the engine room.  We got a validation at the tea room but unfortunately if you stay longer than three hours they charge full parking which is 18 dollars!  I wasn't happy with that ridiculous rate but then I never really end up going down to Long Beach.  It’d been years since I’d been there so I’m glad we went and I did want to see the Princess Diana exhibit.