Day 7 - Cruising Some More and Day 8 - Home

Saturday was our last day on the Mariner of the Seas. *sniff* We were pretty sad but wanted to make sure we did everything we hadn't yet done. So we headed off to the dining room to have breakfast and then went to the rock wall to do some rock climbing! I have done it before and was excited to do it again on the top of the ship! It was super hard, I am not quite as spry as I was when I was 20. I made it to the first bell about halfway up and couldn't go on any further!


Tony did better, he made it to the top!

Hmmm, I feel a little bit of deja vu with the helmet thing...

A shot of the rock wall from the basketball court below.

After the rock wall, we played some basketball in the court below. It was actually really fun. I suck at it, but it was still fun! And the music they were playing was a lot of alternative, old songs I used to love! After that we headed to our room to shower and start packing. Then we went to lunch in the main dining room (oh man, their salads were amazing! I find myself still craving them now!) The weather was pretty bad Friday and Saturday. Cloudy, windy and cold. I think the pool bar had to have lost out on some serious money! We still went and laid out by the pool just to relax a bit. Then we had a snack (super yummy cookies and coffee from the Promenade Cafe) and went to the Savoy to watch the karaoke finals. There was some serious talent!

This is our stateroom attendant, Giovanella. She is from Nicaragua and was sooo sweet.

The sign next to the elevator. Our stateroom was on the 6th floor.

Then we had one more dinner in the dining room. It was sad knowing we wouldn't see the people we spent the whole week with again. But we said goodbye anyway and exchanged email addresses. Then back to the Savoy one more time for the farewell show.

After the show was a big parade that was fun to watch. Lots of costumes and music and just a good time.



And then we headed off to finish packing and prepare for the trip home the next morning. The trip home was uneventful and we came to home to happy kids who missed us very badly. As evidenced by the writing on the street...

We missed you too, kiddos, we missed you too. ;)