Packing it All In

We were up and at 'em bright and early this morning, at least the adults were, so that we could have breakfast in the dining room before bidding adieu to our floating home away from home. We also had to be sure to head to the International Cafe to pick up some of their yummy Almond croissants to take as snacks for tomorrow. We also indulged in some Gelato this afternoon and they actually made our waffle cones as we watched!

Chris, Renee, Danica and I attended two dance classes today - line dancing this morning and salsa this afternoon. Admittedly, I have a few left feet and am not particularly coordinated. I am good at laughing though!

This is Jayson, the Assistant Cruise Director from South Africa.  He was our Salsa dance instructor.  He had the funniest stories and some of them reminded me of ones my dear friend, Tanya has told me in the past.  Baboons are apparently vicious and not cute.  Niche Waiter is a thing and he's done it (for those who don't know, much like we didn't last week, this would be serving food in the buff, or in his case, in an apron).  In spite of his claiming to have been Knighted by the King of Lesotho, this has never occurred.

Danica and I also went to a couple of trivia events today, including one with the whole group and one with Duncan. We still haven't won any of them so no coasters or cheap ship champagne (say that 3 times fast) for us. We have been noticing, however, that the group that seems to consistently win always has 1 less than a perfect score and tonight we actually watched one of them using her phone to, we assume based on behaviour, Google the answers.  

We thought Duncan was going to be a magician's assistant during a farewell show in the Piazza this afternoon but apparently they ran out of time. It was rather disappointing .   

For the last dinner, they had the Baked Alaska parade though it isn't quite as exciting with fake candles instead of real flaming meringues. The kids have been looking forward to trying baked Alaska this whole cruise though so they were excited to order it.

Speaking of dessert, we decided that upon returning home, a quick way to lose 5 lbs and stop feeling crapulent (it's a very apt word that we learned at one of our game shows) will be to stop eating 2 desserts per meal, late night pizza and midnight room service (I didn't partake in this but Danica definitely had some late night room service chocolate cake over the past 10 days). Of course, we will also be returning to the meals put on the table each night, prepared most often by yours truly. No more ordering whatever you feel like trying from a menu. Duncan thinks I need to step up my presentation game.  

Note that these weren't all from tonight, but are examples of what Duncan thinks is superior presentation to my "help yourself from the pot on the stove" game.

We will also not have Jon, our ninja room steward who sneaks in and out, tidying behind us. Chris has said that they have gotten to the elevator, realized they forgot something, gone back to the room and it's already been cleaned with fresh towels in the bathroom. Our experience has not been quite the same but I think it's harder for him to catch all 3 of us out of the room at the same time.

The worst thing about leaving though will be saying goodbye to sun, sand and sea...I don't want to see the snow we've missed...I do feel bad about our house and dog sitter having to deal with the weather...We do miss Hershey though.