South Caribbean Cruise: Days 6 and 7 at Sea

Thursday, March 14, 2024

A day at sea! Erik, Ian, and I ate breakfast with Rick and Marsha in the main dining room. Gabe figured out how to order room service for free by getting a continental breakfast each morning. Erik went to play sudoku, and I went back to the room to read my book. Erik came and got me so that we could change our departure time to leave the ship early and take our luggage with us. We also signed up for a short excursion for Nassau. I wandered around the ship with Erik for a little bit, and we had a very small lunch in the windjammer where we found the oatmeal raisin cookies. The captain announced over the PA system that we were making a detour towards Puerto Rico. One of the guests needed medical attention, and the Coast Guard was going to land a helicopter on the ship to take that person to a hospital. Luckily, it wouldn’t affect our arrival time in Nassau. Next, we went to the gym to work out for a while. I came back to the room afterwards to check on the kids. Erik came and got me and we played color trivia. All the questions had to do with the color green, and we won with a perfect score. We added two Royal Caribbean cups and keychains to our prizes. Next, we showered and got dressed up for dinner. It was a bit of a celebration, which they called a salute to Royal. For dinner, I had escargot, shrimp cocktail, lobster, and a cheese plate for dessert. The lobster was good, but the cheese plate was just so-so.

Lobster!

Erik said the baked Alaska wasn't good. It was mostly ice cream with a squished base of cake.

After dinner, Erik and I wandered around the ship until it was time for our escape room. There were over a dozen people in our group. The goal was to launch a torpedo into a volcano. We had to solve several puzzles to open up several locks to load the torpedo. We found the lock combinations by naming different types of boats, placing magnetic drawings on a map, and solving number puzzles. We solved the escape room with 59 seconds left to go. We came back to our room to go to bed only to find that Gabe was still out wandering around the ship.

Our escape room team saved the world. The crew member said very few groups succeeded.

Friday, March 15, 2024

Our last day at sea! I woke up a little early. Ian was up too, so I took him to the windjammer for breakfast. We tried to go back to our staterooms after eating, but they were being cleaned so instead we wandered the ship. While Ian and I ate breakfast, Gabe and Elisa ordered a free continental breakfast via room service, and Erik and his parents went to the dining room for breakfast where they were seated with two random women who turned out to be members of the church. We found Gabe amidst our ship wanderings; he was in his swimsuit heading for the flowrider line, except he didn’t have a signed waiver so he left the line. Ian and I accompanied him back to the staterooms. Erik was back from breakfast, and we wanted to do the zip line. We all got shoes and socks on and went up to the 16th deck, but alas, the zip line closed just as we got there. The Abyss slide had just opened, so we rode that all the way down to the 6th floor boardwalk. We looked in one of the shops, and then went back to our staterooms again—I wanted to get out of those shoes and socks.

Eating breakfast with this cutie

Me and my cute Ian

Gabe and Ian on the promenade 

Riding the carousal 

Erik being silly

Her 20th or so time going down the abyss slide

Who won?

Best siblings

Erik went off with Elisa to go on the water slides and flowrider, and Ian came with me—we went to the windjammer for some water and then got an ice cream cone. We rode the slide again down to the boardwalk. Ian and I rode the carousel, and then I bought Ian some $3 cotton candy. On our way back to the staterooms, we had some pizza from the promenade. Ian decided that he wanted to get his swimsuit on, so a full hour later he was all ready, wearing some really smelly swim trunks that must not have aired out properly because they smelled awful. He waited in a really long line to go down a water slide. I waited so long that I thought I must have missed him going down! After the slide, he decided that he was done with any water fun (the main pool was full of adults boozing it up), so we went back to our rooms. I put my running gear on and Erik got ready to go to the gym too, but on the way we were able to set up an appointment at NextCruise in the promenade. We booked a cruise for next spring break on the sister ship, Wonder! I did my run (the last one for this cruise), and Erik did his weights.

Taking a ride on the carousal 

I spent $3 to get Ian some cotton candy

Pizza time

Riding the elevator 

Ian stood in line for a long, long time. So long that I was worried that I had missed him going down the slide.

He finally got his turn down the slide

I had just enough time to shower and dress before going to our fancy dinner at 150 Central Park restaurant. The dinner was good, but not amazing. Erik thinks it wasn’t worth the extra money. The pork belly was pretty gross, but everything else was pretty good. I got the beef tenderloin, which was tender but under seasoned. I forgot to get a picture of it. I got some passion fruit dessert with mango ice cream. I thought it was pretty yummy. Most of the table got the fried Nutella cheesecake, which the kids devoured.

My appetizer--scallops

My dessert. It was pretty good.

This cutie ate all of his fried cheesecake Nutella balls

After stuffing our faces, Grandma and Elisa went to Effy for their free necklace pendant. I tried to get one too, but I didn’t feel like fighting the crowds for some junk jewelry so I left. Erik went back to the restaurant because I accidentally left my seapass card there. We watched two shows: Flight: dare to dream and iskate 2.0. The flight show was mostly a medley of songs, loosely tied together around the theme of notable events in flight history. The show ended with an old-fashioned airplane being flown over the audience by a cast member. The skating show was also a collection of routines put to different songs.