Scraptographer
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jun 26, 2013
The last day of any cruise is always tough since you know that most of the really fun stuff is over and you have to fit all of your personal possessions back into your luggage, including your newly acquired souvenirs! And there are lots of loose ends to tie up.
Once we woke up, our first objective , as always, was for food. Since they did not seem to change up the menu at Lumieres, we headed to Topsiders where we had a nice breakfast together. And after breakfast the togetherness ended as both kids deserted us and headed for deck 9/the Vibe. Apparently DD had signed up for an 'assassins' styled game of Gotcha which started at 10 am and kept going pretty much all day long. DS on the other hand hung out with the guys swimming and eating and hot tubbing it from what we could tell.
Since Shutters had left us a Mickey message over night telling us that we needed to confirm by noon that our photo cd had all of our photos on it that we expected to be there, DH and I headed to Shutters as our first stop of the morning to compare our hard copies of photos with the digital photos on our cd file. This was much easier said than done as Shutters was an absolute zoo and line ups for the kiosks were wildly long. Fortunately we easily organized our hard copy photos into 11 folders (one for each day) and then DH scored a kiosk on deck 3 rather than deck 4.
DH and I took the opportunity to get our 5k in on Deck 4.
And then later while DH was taking care of some last minute stuff at the customer service desk, I popped into Lumieres and asked for a 6 pack of GF donuts for me and the kids, which I put into the fridge in our cabin. DH and I then decided to head to the Buena Vista theatre to watch Monsters University (since there was no way in heck we were going near deck 9 pools on a sea day). The movie was cute and we enjoyed it.
Back in the cabin we realized that the kids had been through there at some point, since the donuts were disappearing - yes, we had left a note. And finally we could no longer put it off, it was time to start to pack. I say start, because my job is to help sort and organize, and then to get the heck out of the way and let DH take over.
Eventually we reached a point where we decided to call an 'operational pause' and head to Parrot Cay for dinner.
And yes, it had been a little challenging to find the kids and get them to come back to the room since they were having so much fun, but we knew this was really the last opportunity to see our servers, since the last morning they are often crazy busy.
Once dinner was done, we got a couple of last photos with Minnie in her red blazer outfit and then the kids and I enjoyed the Dreams show and left DH happily packing. By the time we got back from the show, we threw one or two last items into our suitcases and put them out by the door to 'magically' disappear with their Goofy tags on them.
DH and I headed to bed fairly early, while the kids headed off to Vibe for the last time this trip. Apparently there was a slide presentation played with pictures that the Vibe CMs had taken in the Vibe or at Vibe activities all cruise long. And that is also how DD found out that she won the Gotcha game - for most points anyway,
another girl won for most kills. I believe that 'You Go Girls' would be accurate here .
Once we woke up, our first objective , as always, was for food. Since they did not seem to change up the menu at Lumieres, we headed to Topsiders where we had a nice breakfast together. And after breakfast the togetherness ended as both kids deserted us and headed for deck 9/the Vibe. Apparently DD had signed up for an 'assassins' styled game of Gotcha which started at 10 am and kept going pretty much all day long. DS on the other hand hung out with the guys swimming and eating and hot tubbing it from what we could tell.
Since Shutters had left us a Mickey message over night telling us that we needed to confirm by noon that our photo cd had all of our photos on it that we expected to be there, DH and I headed to Shutters as our first stop of the morning to compare our hard copies of photos with the digital photos on our cd file. This was much easier said than done as Shutters was an absolute zoo and line ups for the kiosks were wildly long. Fortunately we easily organized our hard copy photos into 11 folders (one for each day) and then DH scored a kiosk on deck 3 rather than deck 4.
DH and I took the opportunity to get our 5k in on Deck 4.
And then later while DH was taking care of some last minute stuff at the customer service desk, I popped into Lumieres and asked for a 6 pack of GF donuts for me and the kids, which I put into the fridge in our cabin. DH and I then decided to head to the Buena Vista theatre to watch Monsters University (since there was no way in heck we were going near deck 9 pools on a sea day). The movie was cute and we enjoyed it.
Back in the cabin we realized that the kids had been through there at some point, since the donuts were disappearing - yes, we had left a note. And finally we could no longer put it off, it was time to start to pack. I say start, because my job is to help sort and organize, and then to get the heck out of the way and let DH take over.
Eventually we reached a point where we decided to call an 'operational pause' and head to Parrot Cay for dinner.
And yes, it had been a little challenging to find the kids and get them to come back to the room since they were having so much fun, but we knew this was really the last opportunity to see our servers, since the last morning they are often crazy busy.
Once dinner was done, we got a couple of last photos with Minnie in her red blazer outfit and then the kids and I enjoyed the Dreams show and left DH happily packing. By the time we got back from the show, we threw one or two last items into our suitcases and put them out by the door to 'magically' disappear with their Goofy tags on them.
DH and I headed to bed fairly early, while the kids headed off to Vibe for the last time this trip. Apparently there was a slide presentation played with pictures that the Vibe CMs had taken in the Vibe or at Vibe activities all cruise long. And that is also how DD found out that she won the Gotcha game - for most points anyway,
another girl won for most kills. I believe that 'You Go Girls' would be accurate here .