Day 14
We had another fairly early start as we had an 8:00 AM spa treatment booked. When we had our couple's treatment on the first sea day, Graham's therapist recommended a Bamboo massage for him. He decided to go for this. I decided that I would have a hot stone massage. We had the same beauty therapists as the last time and the massage was heavenly. This time round, we did not get any recommendations, but were just taken to the Rainforest Room after the treatment.
At 9:30, we had out Exotic Rasoul booked that came with our passes for the Rainforest Room. We had done this once on the Magic, but the steam room was uncomfortably hot so we had not bothered since. However, all the reports that is too hot have always come from the Magic. So we decided to give it a go. One of the beauty therapist collected us from the Rainforest Room and took us to the room that is used for the Rasoul. She explained what all the different lotions and potions are for and how to use them and then she left us to our own devices. Before she left, she got us some more towels. I don't know what she thought we would be getting up do as there was already a pile of towels on the bench. There was a nice big bowl of Elemis Ginger and Lime Salt Scrub, which we used to exfoliate. I was in heaven. I have a jar of the stuff at home and use it very sparingly as it is quite pricey. There was at least a full jar's worth in the bowl. We had also been given a tube with exfoliating facial mask. Once we had duly exfoliated, we then applied one kind of mud to the body and another mud to the face and headed to the steam room. This was a very pleasant temperature. They also had recessed seats in there with a shower head and shower nozzles at the side. I stayed in there for about 20 minutes before showering off the mud, washing my hair and putting conditioner on. Then I reapplied some more mud and headed back to the steam room. With about 10 minutes to go, we took turns to shower and applied the Milk Bath that we had been told to use like a body lotion and the moisturiser. While we were doing this, our beauty therapist knocked on the door to let us know that the time is nearly up. We got dressed and waited for her at the seating area just outside the room. She gave us something to sign to show that we had the treatment and then she left us to our own devices.
We headed back to the Rainforest Room to relax a bit more. I felt quite sore again after the massage and the hot tile lounger was heavenly on my sore muscles. After a while, I had to leave to get the prizes for the Scavenger Hunt and to collect the final gift for my Secret Mickey from the cabin. I arranged a time when Graham would meet me at the Promenade Lounge and then I headed off.
Prizes in hand, I headed down to the Promenade Lounge. I was soon joined by the first people from the group. However, it took a long time until everybody had assembled. The runners up from the Scavenger Hunt and one family that had participated in Secret Mickey never turned up. I was advised by the family that were the recipients of the family that had not turned up that they already had their final gift and I figured it was the loss of the family that had won a prize in the Scavenger Hunt that they were not there to collect the prize. It was nice to see most people in the group again.
I also got spoiled rotten. I had been spoiled by my Secret Mickey all through the cruise, but my final gift blew me away. I got an exclusive Figment pin from the D23 convention and also a Cast Member exclusive pin of Walt Disney holding Mickey's hand. It turned out that my Secret Mickey was the same person who I was buying for. When I assigned the Secret Mickeys I had assigned her mother to give to me, but they had swapped Secret Mickeys.
I also got some thank you presents from people in the group for the things that I had organised. I got some Kona Coffee from Hawaii. I also got a big gift bag. When I unwrapped this, I found monogrammed tissues for Graham and me, some vinyl decals commemorating our vow renewal, which I will put on champagne glasses at some stage, and a Minnie and Mickey cake topper. I was not sure whether to laugh or to cry. The one thing that I regretted about cancelling the vow renewal on the ship was that I would not get a Disney cake topper. I had searched high and low at
Disneyland with no success and on the ship, they just had the Precious Moments cake toppers, which I do not really like. Suddenly I held exactly what I had been looking for in my hands. I decided that I would get the bottom of this signed by the captain.
After all the thank yous and goodbyes had been said, Graham and I headed to Parrot Cay for some lunch. Lunch on the last day is always a seafood buffet. I don't eat seafood, but there is usually plenty of alternatives. This time round, there was slim pickings. They had a lovely Beef and Vegetable Stir Fry and some Vegetable Rice, but that was about my lot. Of course, there was also the salad bar so I did not go hungry and the ice cream that we had for dessert was also very tasty. Graham was in his element though as they had Peel and Eat Shrimp on the buffet that day.
After lunch, we headed back to the cabin and started the packing process. This did not take very long. I had to head to Guest Services as we both had Ariel luggage tags. People with early disembarkation get Ariel tags. Everybody else gets other character tags based on location. As disembarkation is now by the character on the luggage tags, I needed to get this right. When I had originally requested early disembarkation, I had said that this would be for me only, but they obviously could not get their heads around this. When I went to Guest Services that day, the poor guy that I spoke to seemed to be utterly bewildered by the concept that Graham and I were going to disembark separately. Still, he did give me the Mickey luggage tags. Back at the cabin, I filled out the luggage tags and the customs forms. We needed one each this time. Once all of this was done, I grabbed my cake topper and our Mickey ears and headed for the Captain's signing at Treasure Ketch.
The line for this was mercifully short. There were maybe half a dozen people in front of me. This was definitely a different proposition from the Panama Canal cruise. It took less than 10 minutes until I had my things signed. I quickly took them back to the cabin and then I headed back to deck 4.
I still had a few minutes until Stitch was due to come out. As I had not taken many photos around the ship this cruise, I decided to put this right. I have often taken photos of the window displays of Mickey's Mates and Treasure Ketch, but I had never previously taken photos of the character sculptures inside Mickey's Mates. I put this right. I also took some more photos of the atrium.
When I got to the spot where Stitch was scheduled to be, he was there together with his escort, but nobody else was there. Unfortunately there was no photographer either, but his escort was happy to take photos with my camera. As there was nobody else there, I had some real quality time with Stitch. As I was expecting that this was the last time I would see Stitch this cruise, I told him that the next time I would see him when we were taking him back to visit Hawaii. Stitch was pretending to surf and encouraged me to join in. We were just generally messing around. Once the next family arrived, I hugged him goodbye and went on my way.
for some food porn, and I just love all your dresses! It's so hard to find dresses for gals like us! 
I think they are all wonderful! I wish I had so many lovely dresses! 
Graham really hates it with a passion. He already has announced that he will pass on this on our next cruise. I have just smiled sweetly and said nothing.
