Last Day at Sea

August 7

We had a full day of sailing at sea to get back to Copenhagen.  We slept in a little but my body clock woke me up early anyway. I had my last little room service breakfast. I went and got Bob a caramel mocha latte to help use up his coffee card and checked on our bill. They had charged us full price for the wine that we were supposed to have gotten as a gift from our travel agent. They did fix it later, so all was well.  And the bill wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. (A few too many dollars in the casino, but it was vacation!)

When Bob got up, we went for breakfast. I took some extra rolls and some bananas for tomorrows breakfast since we had to be up and out of there by 6:15. Today we wore our DSH t-shirts. It was finally almost cool enough to wear them. We had so many comments all day on the nice shirts. Some people wanted to know where we bought them so they could get them. It had all our "tour dates" on the back, which is what people noticed. We could have made some money selling extras.

Some of us ladies went to hear the chef's talk about cooking on the ship. His accent was hard to understand and the head waiter that we didn't like was on stage trying to be funny. We walked out before it was done and went and played trivia in Club Fusion instead. We didn't win but teamed with a guy from Duluth and a couple from Sydney, Australia.

Then we all met up again for a pizza/hamburger/ice cream lunch at the grill by the pool. We were missing all the desserts in the Horizon Court so one of our group went and got a whole platter full of goodies. We stopped complaining and managed to clean them all up without too much trouble.

After lunch we played Bingo. We played 4 games and lost 4 games. Then we did more trivia in the Explorers lounge. Didn't win that either.  Meanwhile Bob and his buddies were playing poker in our cabin. I was going to pack, but decided to wait until they were done. It take as long to pack it all back up as it did to pack at home. Either we were taking it or throwing it away. I put all the heavy stuff in our small carry on suitcase or the new tote I bought to replace the broken backpack I used on the trip over.  Roger, our steward, brought us a luggage scale and ours were both well under the limit. Hopefully his scale was accurate.

BINGO - so serious!

Poker - looks like Bob is doing better than in the casino!

We all wore our shirts to our last dinner with Pim and Viviana. Made them smile, too. They had a good old fashioned turkey dinner as one of the choices tonight. I think most of our group picked that one. For dessert they had baked Alaska, so the waiters did the flaming parade. Our group had to help them out with singing.

Last meal in the Michelangelo Dining Room

Then it was informal group picture time. We took some on the stairs in the Piazza. We took some across the balcony on the piazza but those were too far away. Then we went out on the deck and took some outdoor ones and some individual ones by the Emerald Princess lifebuoy.

Just the ladies

A little windy, but none of us fell overboard.

A happy couple!

I went to the final show of the trip - a violinist. He was very good, but very showy, too. Listened to Chris play in Crooners after that. Back to the cabin and Bob was already in bed. Up early tomorrow for the long trip home.