Ah yes, pin trading. V picked up a couple new pins and now I remember where DH went -
he was up in Studio Sea saving us a table for the family talent show.
Yeah, that's right. Saving a table.
Living on the edge, baby!
We staked out a spot to support our tablemates - their youngest was supposed to play piano in the talent show.
Unbeknownst to us, she had withdrawn from the talent show so we didn't get to see her, but it was a fun event anyway...
And the fascinating photo to support this bit of phototravelogue:
The Table!
But it is a cool table, all film reel-ish and everything
And then, at long last, after what seems now to have been a very long day but at the time it flew by in a flash,
it was time to head for dinner. Our last supper (snicker) was in Parrot Cay.
Passing by the Internet Cafe on the way
Evidently I was feeling photo burnt out as the only photo I have from dinner is the dessert menu.
Now we could argue quite successfully that the dessert menu is one of the most important photos...
but still, seems odd that that was it from dinner!
I think we were too busy chatting & socializing and saying our goodbyes to our tablemates and our serving team
(we weren't doing the dining room breakfast in the morning) to 'focus' on taking pictures (Hehe! Did you see what I did there?)
After dinner, we popped back to the cabin to make sure our suitcases were in the hall by the deadline.
And double checked that we all had clothes and toiletries set out for the morning.
Our flight home wasn't until 5:30pm so we were going to spend the day at the Johnson Space Centre.
Therefore, with excellent forethought, we had kept out two outfits for the next day:
shorts & t-shirts for the day, and jeans & sweaters for the flight home.
DH headed off for his long anticipated whisky tasting in the Outlook bar (#4 for those who are still counting!),
so V headed down to the Edge to see what was shaking and I was going to take K to the kids club
so that I could hang out with DH for the whisky tasting and then have a last night cocktail with him.
Yeah. That was the plan.
Somehow K didn't get the memo.
I begged. I pleaded. I may or may not have threatened.
But she would not go back to the kids club. She finally conceded and said she'd go for a half-hour
but by then I felt so guilty for trying to force her to do it when it was her holiday too that I said we'd just go to turn in her wristband.
Now
that is when the holiday is officially over.
And for those that read that and worry that 'oh my goodness the kids clubs must be terrible if she couldn't get her daughter to go',
don't worry...there were more issues at play and most had nothing to do with the clubs themselves
(and more to do with the fact that big sis had freedom to come and go from the Edge and wasn't playing with her).
In other words, it's complicated
So we turned in her wristband, and went back to the cabin for cartoons. I vented my frustration in my comment card to Disney,
giving kudos to the CMs and jeers to Disney for changing their on board booking policy....THREE STINKING DAYS before our cruise.
No, I wasn't bitter. Just because I mentally flipped the bird at the Future Cruise desk every time I walked by...nope, no bitterness there!!!
Apparently my comments fell on deaf ears as they haven't changed their mind
K had crawled into bed by this point so I sat sulking when freedom arrived - in the form of V,
back from the Edge and ready for bed.
Please please please will you watch your sister while I run to have a drink with daddy?
(oh the stories she'll have for the therapist when she grows up!!)
And with a quick "I love you. You're the best!" I was off to the Outlook!
The tasting was just winding up when I got there ("hey, what took you so long?")
Here's DH finding Jesus.
Seriously, that's Jesus...it was his last night of his contract so his mind may have been on other things.
I see he's back on the Wonder there's a recent trip report where he was doing the Mixology class.
A close up of DH's awesome cool shirt (that I bought him):
Random Outlook pictures that I took while waiting for DH to wind down so that we could have our nightcap:
Where's REVERSE?!?!
That is officially the last photo I took on our last full day on the ship.
A moment of silence, if you please.
Of course, that wasn't the end of the evening.
Once I managed to tear DH away, we decided to head to the Cadillac Lounge for our (first and) final nightcap.
We were the only ones in there other than the Ivan and Polly, and the piano player.
Dh and I sat at the bar (ooooh...so sophisticated!) and chatted and savoured our final cocktail.
Of course, the inevitable happened...once we stopped moving around, we hit the wall. Full speed.
So with final good byes to our favourite bartending staff, we crawled back to our cabin.
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