Day 9 of Vacation:
Today was a bit tough for two reasons. The cruise was of course ending, and I was saying goodbye to mom. We have never separated during vacation but because of some unfortunate circumstances it was necessary on this trip. It was pretty much a last minute development two weeks before the cruise. I hadn’t quite wrapped my head around the change, and if I said I wasn’t melancholy I’d be lying. Well I was ok until I was on the bus headed to WDW, but I’m getting ahead of myself.
Last morning of the cruise we both woke up around 6:30. Another excellent reason to have late dining, you don’t have to be to breakfast until 8-8:15. You can always go to Cabanas and just grab breakfast whenever you want, but we wanted to see our tablemates one last time. While we were getting ready and packing up everything we hadn’t the night before they kept overhead paging ‘If you’re done with breakfast please disembark the ship’. I do not appreciate being rushed on my last day of a cruise. We are both under the mindset that we are going to relish every single last moment. Not just this cruise but the others as well. We had no need to rush off so we weren’t going to. Mom got a laugh this morning, she had left the verandah open while we got ready and a CM appeared on it ready to start cleaning. Well he hadn’t come through the room so somehow he lowered himself down, he got a scare that we were still in the room.
After double and triple checking all the drawers and closets we headed out of the room at 7:50. You go to the restaurant you were at the night before, for us that was the Enchanted Garden. Everyone was already there, bleary eyed but there.
Our wonderful tablemates
Things seemed a bit chaotic that last breakfast. Karen took FOREVER getting us our drinks. I asked for a bagel with cream cheese, I have no idea why they brought me two but I couldn’t finish them.
Mom and I both had an omelet. Mom always asks for swiss cheese and they always bring her cheddar cheese. Not sure why, they have swiss cheese on the menu…
Mom also had a raspberry danish. Karen had to chase one down, but to her credit she did find one.
I must have missed writing this in the journal or I would have mentioned it the night before. Mom had asked Martin if she could have one last Mickey bar for breakfast and he said of course she could. Well he had naturally forgotten all about it but mom sure hadn’t! ‘Where is my Mickey bar Martin?’ Well it took him a few minutes but he delivered. This made for a very happy mom!
We continued our leisurely morning and said goodbye to our wonderful tablemates. They felt the rush to get off the ship, but mom was going to sit and enjoy every single last bite of that Mickey bar. That was fine with me, I was happy right where I was.
Mickey bar demolished we made our way out. We stopped for one last bathroom break. I made the mistake in Miami to think I could make it off the ship. I was in agony. The line moves pretty slowly and there’s no reason to harm your bladder when plenty of restrooms are available on the ship. When we got upstairs the end of the line was midway through the Atrium. When we went to breakfast it was all the way past Animators Palate. It steadily moved and we were all too soon at customs. We found our bags quickly and who would we see coming towards us but Mike and Kathryn our tablemates. What fun, we were able to chat with them while in line which was really nice. Customs was very smooth, mom and I go through separately since we have different surnames, but I really don’t know if that matters. And then out to the buses, mom was going to the airport and I was going to WDW. I was able to immediately load mine, but she had to wait a bit. Hugs exchanged and goodbyes said we parted ways. It’s ok if you guys think I’m too old to be sad about leaving my mom. It might seem silly to some people but I truly cherish the time I get to spend with my parents.
As my bus pulled away I called mom to see if she had made it onto a bus, she had. I asked her to please let me know when she got to her destination safely and then tried to enjoy the ride to AKV. It was a very jerky ride and I got a bit car sick. We first stopped at AoA, then BC, then YC, and finally Jambo House at 11:20. The ride was about 75 minutes, which the driver had said at the beginning. I found a CM and they took me up to CL. I just love CL! Amazingly they had a room available and I was in the room at 11:40.
Room photos
My view
They would probably need to send me there every other week.
Do they have towels by the pool or do you bring ones from the room? 
He definitely needs to go back to Towel Making 101!
they're all so cute in their different outfits! Mickey looks really good in his tuxedo. 
last time they checked the cholesterol was pretty good though. I'm not sure about all shellfish, but the crab one got substantially worse over time. I'm not going to push my luck. 
