January 10 – AT SEA, Cruising The Atlantic Ocean

our balcony

our way of participating

Weather – 26º, sunny

Steps – 7,659

Humidity – 70%

Last day of the cruise and second last before we are home. At the end of each vacation, we are often asked if we are ready to come home. My theory is that I am ready to come home when I know the vacation is ending. If I were to be here for another 2 weeks, I wouldn’t be ready…it’s over in 2 days…so I’m ready.

Instead of our usual sea day pool time, we decided to visit a few places on the ship we haven’t been to yet.

Deal or No Deal

We started our personal ship tour at O’Malley’s. We have been here before for drink, but they offer a food menu a couple of times a day. We stopped in for a drink and onion rings. I am a sucker for onion rings…I’ve had better.

not nearly enough

Next, we stopped to watch Zumba in the piazza. This is a great place for it rather than out of the way in a fitness studio. This was a serious fitness class taught by Cole the cruise director. Sometimes resort fitness classes are more for entertainment then actual exercise…this class was for exercise. It was also entertaining to watch and looked like fun for the participants in as well. Next time, I’ll participate. I assumed this would be like the usual resort style mostly for entertainment...I was wrong!

BTW...speaking of the cruise director...we did some googling, seems like he makes upwards of $200,000USD! He does work his ass$$ff, every single day...but I was a bit surprised.

Deal or No Deal was in the piazza right after Zumba, so we stayed for a bit. It’s interesting that many (or all) bigger cruise ships have Deal or No Deal.

We then went to Name That Tune 90’s version. We thought we were doing well with 32 out of 40…nope…one team scored %100. One of the songs was Crash Test Dummies! We were just talking about them the other day.

pondering...NSYNC or BSB??

pool party

The last event for us for the afternoon was the farewell dance party at the pool.

By this time, I was ready for a nap. I included a photo of our balcony. It's big, but the furniture could be more comfortable. I guess they want you off your balcony and out somehwere on the ship.

Dinner was at Alfedo’s the pizza place again. Then we went to the farewell show. The most entertaining part of the show was the fight that almost happed involving the 2 people sitting next to us. They were mad about saving seats. It didn't get to the fisticuffs stage, but it was tense. The show was followed by a final go at the casino. I still had about $100 to spend. I started with

not colossal in my books

$40 in credits played for 3 nights and finally got my bank down to $0.

one last sunset

trying to get my steps up