Day Fourteen - At Sea - It's Coming to and End

This morning, we enjoyed what will be our last breakfast together in the dinning room.  Once again, the line was ridiculously long and the service took quite a while.  As soon as we were done with breakfast we ran upstairs for our final progressive trivia of the cruise.

We had a wonderful team that we really enjoyed spending time with; Leslie, Sybil and Bernie were a hoot.  We were lucky to have found each other.  Playing with people you enjoy makes all of the difference in the world.

I asked Steph this morning if I could lead the daily "warm-up" before trivia and she obliged.  I changed it a bit, asked everyone to stand, and we all applauded Steph and thanked her for such a wonderful time.  These cruise staff members spend HOURS each and EVERY day looking up trivia questions to stump and humor us with.  And some people get nasty about their trivia, and Steph handled everyone so well.  We had an amazing time.

Steph told us to come back at 4:30 and the winner of the cruise long trivia would be unveiled!

I headed back to the cabin and began the dreaded task of unpacking. Seriously, you spend days organizing and packing when you leave on your trip.  Going home?  Just shove it in and whatever falls out stays on the ship!  The end.

We had wanted to enjoy a final lunch today at Alfredo's, but the pizza oven wasn't working so we opted for one last meal in the dinning room with Kathy and Mike. We ran into Jane and Ned and they joined us as well. Great food, great service, even better company.  We are blessed!

We wandered, chatted with friends, and generally spent the remainder of the day saying our goodbyes to all of the new friends we'd made along the way.

At 4:30 we were in Princess Live anxiously awaiting the final progressive trivia results.  How would Tequila Mockingbirds make out?  Yes, that's our team name.  Cute, don't you think?

We finished in seventh place out of about 30 teams. Respectable, I'll take it!

One last happy hour tonight (very thankful for Uros, our excellent cocktail waiter who took care of us each and every night) and we headed to the last supper.  Our table mates on both sides this cruise were fun; we will miss the nightly camaraderie.

And now, the funny part.  I found out tonight that I've been calling Diego the wrong name for THE ENTIRE CRUISE.  His name is actually Domingo.  Who the heck knows where I got Diego from??? A LOT of embarrassment on my part (and laughter from everyone else).  Lot of hugs goodbye.  Lot of thank yous for all of the amazing service.  This one is going to be hard to top!

I attended the final music trivia of the cruise (Movie Themes, which I ROCK at) and our team won.  Fitting end to a mostly perfect cruise!

Bed time was early, alarm is set for 5:00 tomorrow morning.  Not ready to say goodbye to the beautiful Sky Princess...

Day Thirteen - At Sea

Yikes. Before I know it they are going to be throwing us off this beautiful ship.  I already want to cry...

Sweet mamma lost her glasses last night and they still haven’t been found!  Say a prayer someone turns them in today.  We have NO idea where she may have left them!

A couple of things I forgot to mention yesterday....

While having breakfast (sweet mamma was walking so I was alone) I was checking email and Facebook when I could tell the table next to me was staring at me.  I started to wonder if I’d spilled eggs on my blouse, or what the problem was.  The gentleman finally asked:

“Where you the judge last night?”

HA! Yes I was...

Later last night, after dinner, on our way to trivia, the guy behind me in the elevator says:

“Hey, are you that judge from last night?”

Me: “Yep, sure was”

Him: “Are you like, famous, am I supposed to know you?”

Oh lord, if I’d only known it would lead to THAT!

Back to our regularly scheduled programming....

The line for the dinning room this morning was crazy long.  We finally got our table and did have to wait a while for our food.  I think the added hour of sleep last night brought out a lot of folks early, today.

My eggs were excellent, the English muffins, not so much!  While trying to cut my English muffin, egg combo, the muffin (hard as a rock) slipped and launched itself towards me.  So I sat, finishing breakfast, with egg all over me.  At least I didn’t have to cook this morning, or clean up!

As always, we headed to trivia after breakfast.  We fared okay, and are getting close to the end. It will be interesting to see how we finish!

We met our dear friend Mike and Kathy for lunch, although I had to scoot quickly and missed out on dessert (that's wrong on so many levels).  The line for the dining room was extra long at lunch today and I had a 1:30 hair appointment!

I ran over to the salon/spa as soon as I was finished with my entree and met sweet Jenny.  She did an excellent job.  I took advantage of a spa special; Shampoo, deep conditioning, eye treatment and styling for $49.  I always like to relax so this worked for me.  Plus I now didn't have to spend an hour plus drying and straightening my hair.  Winning!

Before we knew it it was time for happy hour and dinner. What am I going to do without Diego and Jek every night? How can I possibly put a napkin in my lap BY MYSELF?  The thought is awful!!!

I headed to the nightly music trivia at 7:45 but skipped the 8:45 game show "Nature Calls.".  Instead, I headed back to the cabin for a movie and an early bedtime.

Tomorrow, the awful ritual of packing to leave begins.