Today was our day at sea, as we traveled back from Barbados to Puerto Rico. You can really tell how many people are on the ship during the sea day. It is amazing how many people can be comfortably transported on this ship!
At eleven, we had a Rasul spa treatment. We were given this two room area in the spa for an hour. One of the spa specialists showed us how to use everything, and then we were left alone to wash, exfoliate, and shower. Next, we went into this steam room and covered each other with a seaweed wrap. We sat in the steam for about 10 minutes, and then these shower heads around the steam room came on so that we could rinse everything off. Once that finished we could put on some lotion and we were done. It was nice and very relaxing!
After lunch in the wind jammer, we watched some of the men’s international belly flop contest.
Next, we went on a galley tour to see what the kitchens looked like. It is amazing how systematic everything is,. But it works..they are able to serve about 1200 meals altogether, hot and good, all at the same time. The dining room actually spans 3 decks, and each deck has its own kitchen, so each kitchen actually serves about 400 meals. It was very neat, and the chef, Marco, had a lot of interesting things to share.
After the galley tour, we went back to our room to read on our balcony. It was nice having the balcony, especially on the sea day, because when the rest of the ship was really crowded, we had a quiet place with a beautiful view!
Dinner that night was excellent as usual. I had a hummus appetizer, a pumpkin soup, sweet and sour mahi-mahi, and a caramel banana nut parfait. Grant had a spinach dip appetizer, French onion soup, turkey ad potatoes, and brownie madness. This is when I started to get emotional. I am so weird, I know, but it is so sad to leave the ship. These people work so hard for you! And they are away from their families for a long time. Sigh.
After dinner, we went back to our room to start packing. We interrupted this to go see the farewell show, where Richard spacey, the cruise director, and the other entertainment crew put on a great show. It got really emotional for me at the end, when they brought our representatives from all areas of the staff, the cabin stewards, the serving staff, etc. They got a standing ovation and the singers and dancers sang this stupid goodbye, thank you for cruising with us song that had me just about in tears and grant busting a gut laughing at me. The ended the evening with everyone holding hands and swaying back and forth singing “Auld Lang Sine”
So we went back and finished packing, had our bags outside the cabin door by 11:30 and then I tried to go to sleep and of course couldn’t because I was a big ball of nerves.
The next morning I woke up at 5:45 because it was loud outside on the docks. We showered, packed our last few things, and left our cabin at 8:00, as requested. We went to have breakfast in the WindJammer, and we got to see our wonderful waiter, Lucillo, one last time. After breakfast, we went to the Lyric Theater. Our departure number was called at around 9:30, and it took about 45 minutes to get off the ship and through customs.
While we were waiting for Customs, there was the cutest little beagle dog walking around d sniffing bags for agricultural products. He was really cute, especially when he stopped at a bag and sat down. The lady got in her bag and sure enough there was banana inside. The sweet puppy got lots of pets and a treat from the immigration officer, and the lady got a good laugh! It was cute!
We took a taxi to the airport. We were too late to fly standby on the early flight, so we had to wait about 2 1/2 hours for our flight. We got a pizza for lunch. The flight was short…like 35 minutes, and the plane was small. Our rental car was waiting for us when we arrived, and we were on our way to our cottage in St. Croix without any further ado!
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