Day 6 - At Sea / Day 7 - Return Home

We awoke to the last day of the cruise and we were determined to make the most of it.

So we ate breakfast.

And swam.

And ate lunch.

Lorna played some more Bingo and tried to win a free cruise! No such luck.

Tim went to spinning class for the 3rd time to work off breakfast and sushi. He's so disciplined.

We ate sushi.

And walked around the ship one last time.

We ate dinner, watched the waitstaff dance and said goodbye to Allen, our assistant waiter from the Phillipines.

And to Nataliya, our head waitress from Lithuania.

We went back to our room and found some way to repack everything. We chose to do self-assist, which means that we were able to carry all of our luggage off the ship ourselves. You'd be surprised how many people can't. In fact, I would say that at least 75% of the 2,800 passengers were unable to or chose not to.

Our ship docked in Galveston at 7:00 a.m. You'd think having someone take your luggage off for you would be great, right? But no. You are assigned a "zone" if you are having help with your luggage (which was put outside cabine doors the night before) and just called by floor/cabin numbers if you're not. Self-assist passengers get called first. We were about the 4th wave of people called, (I ate one last breakfast while we waited) so we carried our luggage off the ship, waited in line for customs and breezed out to find the shuttle to our car. We were back at our car before 9:00 a.m. I've heard that some people don't get off the ship until 1:30 pm, so I highly recommend doing self-assist if possible.

We headed back home to greet our children with hugs, kisses and souvenirs and will keep the memories. At least until we can go again!