So, this I think is the last cruise blog that I am going to be able to put in for a while. Depends on our Internet access over the next few days. We're flying back to France tomorrow, so we'll see how everything goes. I am leaving my laptop behind, but Oppa is bringing his with us, so depending on whether or not we get Internet I will also put in Capri, the last few days, and update on things happening. Anyway, here's this entry.
This was day at sea number four and the last one of the entire cruise. We got to wind back the watches an hour the night before, so it felt like I got an extra hour of sleep than I should have. This still did not change the fact that I did not make it out to the early morning mile walk. I sat around until ten watching some movie or another on TV and then dragged Mia outside to go to the Burn Fat Fast seminar that was supposed to be going on in the Conference Room. When we got there, some lady told us that it was no longer going on in that room and directed us to the Viking Lounge on the 11th floor. We took the elevator up there, only to see a buffet-style set up of food being laid out. Unless they were burning fat through some sort of torture, Mia and I assumed that the lady pointed us in the wrong direction and gave up our search. Instead we stopped by the library because we thought we saw Oppa in there. We thought right and bugged him for a while before going back downstairs to get everyone else to go up to eat, which we did. We stopped by through the library to get Oppa again first though.
Anyway, we got our food as usual and ate way too much of it (as usual). We had to eat quickly though, because we wanted to see a towel folding demonstration at 11. These cruises like to fold towels into the shapes of animals (I think Carnival does it as well), so they were showing us how it was done. We were a little late, so we missed the beginning of it, but that was okay. Whatever. It was still a lot of fun to watch.
We hung around the Schooner Bar for a little while after because they were holding a movie trivia there at noon or something. I think James spent a lot of that time showing Nicole his Nintendogs game.
Anyway, they had the movie trivia and the person running trivia made it a little easier because the one before that was extremely difficult. It was a lot easier this time around, but that may have possibly been just for me. The majority of the movies they asked about were movies that I had seen (or movies that one of the other cruise staff people gave very obvious hints for). But seriously, they asked questions about Moulin Rouge, Titanic, The Breakfast Club, Save the Last Dance, Almost Famous, Mission Impossible, etc. so these were all movies that I had either seen or am unheathily obsessed with. For those more classic movies that I wouldn't have known, I had Umma. The end result of all of this was that we ended up winning the trivia game. We won luggage tags like we had the day before, but it didn't matter because when we won this particular trivia game, we beat the Super Family. By one point. They sulked. Uncle Alex said that one of hte kids was talking about how they couldn't believe we won. I didn't even need to do anymore trivia. I accomplished one of the goals we had set out to accomplish and I was happy.
There was a scavenger hunt immediately after the trivia, which I probably wouldn't have participated in had it not been a Vitality Rewards game and had I not been on this uber high from beating the Super Family at trivia. But, I did. And I dragged along a grumbling Mia, James and Andrew to play this game with me. It was all fitness themed, so it wasnt actually that hard for me. We also needed a sock with a hole in it and Andrew had conveniently destroyed one of his socks the night before for the dumb Quest game, so all was good in the world. At some point we lost Mia. I thought she told me she wasn't feeling well so she was going to go, but I think she just really said I'll be right back. Either way, we were doing serious business scavenger hunt, which means we had to leave the stragglers behind. We were one of the first two groups back, which meant that we got special bonus points. Additionally, we tied with another group and instead of doing some stupid tie breaker, just decided to share the prize. We ended up with 15 more Vitality Points and cool Royal Caribbean logo medallions (and yes, I wore that medallion proudly around the ship and actually wore it around earlier today).
Anyway, I went downstairs to show off my new bling. Umma was packing up Gianni Oppa and James's room. I dragged Gianni James, and Oppa upstairs for the afternoon trivia. We lost, unfortunately, but the people we were sittting next to won and they were nice, so all was still good. We also grabbed our passports and then decided to go up and eat because we obviously had not done so in quite some time.
After eating, we went to the Rock Climbing Wall so I could redeem some of my Vitality points. I ended up with this pretty nifty Royal Caribbean Vitality tote bag (not like I don't have enough tote bags already) and saved the rest of my points to see if I could get anything else in the last few days.
We went downstairs and got Halmony and Gianni set up for Bingo. Then, we searched the ship for Mia. We were unsuccessful, but did manage to find Oppa. Umma and I dragged both James and Oppa to a line dancing class. I think this was partially because she had discovered that, yes, our society has come to a point where they reward people free things for engaging in physical activity, but it was also because cruise dance classes are both silly and fun. Anyway, this line dancing class was more of an aerobics workout than a dance class. We were running around everywhere and jumping and I was disgustingly sweaty after that 30 minute class. Either that or I'm just lame at dancing. Both probably because I landed on my butt a few times during the class. Oppa was the funniest, though. In order to not have to dance, he would yell at James for stupid things and then stand around to watch us until the dance instructor caught him and made him continue dancing.
After the dance class, we went downstairs and found Mia, who had apparently been reading or something all day. We spent a lot of the rest of the evening packing up stuff, but eventually had to change clothes to get ready for the last of the formal nights. We wanted to check some stuff out in preparation for our trip out to Capri, which ended up meaning that we were doing some silly raffle for a cell phone charm (I think), so we ended up being a little late for dinner. Nicole was sick, so Uncle Alex and Chicca were not at dinner and we ended up squishing everyone into one table. Dinner was good. I had the prime rib. Good stuff. We also celebrated Andrew's birthday, but he left early for some reason and wasn't able to eat the cake with us. Our waitor packaged a piece of the cake up for him for us to take to his room though.
James was also not feeling well. He was almost falling asleep at the table. When asked why he wasn't going downstairs to sleep, he told us that he wanted to, but he wanted to wait for the ice cream he ordered. James is a funny guy.
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