Day 7 - Last Day at Sea

We begin our last day at sea by sleeping in. We awake around 8 and head for the breakfast buffet. Because we slept in, we had a limited selection of deck chairs available to us. We found two on the starboard side of the ship. Unfortunately, they were open because they were beneath the ship's funnel and we were soon in shade. We read and napped and soon it was time for the lunch buffet. I went down early to get a table because the buffet of the day was CHOCOLATE. I quickly made two trips to the chocolate buffet and then decided that I should eat some regular food to help balance out the sugar overload. Amy then joined me and while she was eating her regular food lunch I was on trips 3 and 4 to the chocolate buffet. I then rested and waited for Amy to catch up. I had one more piece of chocolate sushi and Amy had a final rice pudding.

We returned to the sun deck to discover it was now the shade deck. I tried to nap but it was too cold without the sun. I returned to the cabin for my afternoon nap and Amy stayed on deck wearing her sweatshirt and scooting her deck chair as close as she could to the sunny area. I tried to nap but the heathen children in the next cabin made that impossible. Amy joined me in the cabin and I went on a walk searching for a sunny resting place and Amy took a nap in the cabin. We have become addicted to the buffet/nap cycle. We eat, then sleep, then eat again, then sleep, over and over and over. How are we going to cope in the real world if we have to stay awake during the day and prepare our own food? What a barbaric concept!!! Amy awoke and was able to make it to the chocolate buffet before it closed at 3 for a final chocolate snack. I found Amy in the dining area finishing her chocolate snack. I continued to search the ship for an appropriate resting area and I finally found it. It was on the third deck and it was sunny, quiet (no music blaring) and very few people. Unfortunately, it was 5:20 pm and the sun would be setting in an hour and the buffet would be opening at 6pm. Amy and I found each other and we headed for the buffet. After eating, we stumbled back to the cabin to rest and decide what to do with the rest of the evening. After a short nap, we went to pick up Amy's underwater pictures she had developed. I am amazed that I actually was able to get her in the pictures I took while snorkeling in Grand Cayman. It is very difficult taking pictures when both the subject and photographer are bobbing in the ocean, breathing through a tube and their masks are fogging up.

We returned to the cabin where we packed in preparation of disembarking the ship on Saturday. Packing and paper work complete, Amy ordered from room service and I went to the buffet to pick up our dessert and a diet coke from the bar. We set up an early wake up call and fell asleep. All too soon it will be morning and back to the real world. :(