another last day of the cruise

January 11, 2014
Last day of the cruise. I found out yesterday that Meghna, my original roommate from the summer on the Nieuw A is transferring for a few weeks from the Eurodam. She’s going to be my roommate again. Strange after 5 months. Anyway, it was a lovely day in Half Moon Cay. Ethan and I did the island activities, and Christine went back to the ship to do port day (since one of the parents requested it for her daughter so she could go to the spa instead of horseback riding). We hung out on the beach and just enjoyed the sun until the day ended all too soon. I went back to the ship and started working on condensing my stuff again since I’ve spread out quite a bit around the room, not having a roommate this week.

Christine called around 5 to let me know that we were approved to go to Canaletto with Cassandra and Claudine (another ShoreX who I rarely see, but we’re friends) to celebrate Claudine’s last day. So, I quickly changed and got ready and dropped my change of clothes upstairs in Club HAL. I’m still not impressed at all with the new Canaletto menu. I like the idea, the “family-style” way of eating: share two appetizers, two pastas and one large plate between two people (so, we got four appetizers, four pastas and one large plate for four of us; I only ate one appetizer and had a whole pasta to myself). The food just isn’t that great, it’s all vegetable dishes or seafood. Oh well, it was still nice to have dinner somewhere other than the Lido. Well, Canaletto is technically IN the Lido, just a sectioned off area with table service and an entirely different menu.

Anyway, after dinner, Christine told me that since we haven’t had kids showing up to Club HAL at night (the one who has been coming for after-hours was in the show tonight), I could just stay in my smart-casual clothes and hang out until 9:30 and go to the show. Of course, the one night I’m in a skirt and heels at work, one kid does show up. It was too late to change then though, plus I’d realized I’d forgotten to pack my shoes in my bag. He didn’t stay for long, just long enough to finish watching How to Train Your Dragon and start playing a video game; his mom basically just dropped him off to get him out of the room while she packed. So, I met up with Ethan and we went to the show. It was a packed house for the week’s finale of Dancing with the ‘stars’-at sea. It was pretty cool though, because it was a theme cruise and we had all these pros on board, they got three of the pros to be judges instead of the usual 3 or 4 crew members who have the night off and know nothing about dance. It was a tough competition, but all of the dancers were really good!