As a result, I looked a little like I had been rode hard and put away wet this morning. G eventually went the World Fresh Marketplace for breakfast but I knew what goodies were in store at lunch in the buffet, and decided to skip breakfast altogether. The cabin phone rang and that necessitated a trip to the Guest Services Desk, which, on the last day of a cruise is an extended process, and here I must back up a bit and fill you in.
Two nights ago (Puerto Vallarta night, so you can see why I had no patience to deal with my lost post, which, by the way, i discovered today was Autosaved in my app, so if you haven’t read that post, it’s now been published), after dinner I returned to the cabin to get my new sweatshirt to wear in the Princess Theater for that night’s show. I carried it over my arm to the theater, then put it on and almost immediately realized that my nearly new Mexican fire opal bracelet was not on my wrist. I know for certain I had it at dinner, and wondered if the act of putting on the sweatshirt had caused it to fall off.
After the show, I was on my hands and knees on the Princess Theater floor searching under every seat within three rows looking for this bracelet, to no avail. I thought perhaps it had fallen off when I was carrying my sweatshirt draped over my wrist, but it has never been turned in to Guest Services. I know it’s on the ship, but that doesn’t help. The call from Guest Services was to tell me the loss report I filed was signed and official, and, armed with the original receipt, my credit card statement and this report, I should be able to recoup the loss either through our Princess Vacation Protection or my credit card protection. And I even have that photo I posted on this blog to provide further proof of purchase.
Sigh. It was pretty while it lasted. I hope its new owner will treat it well.
I was first in line at the World Fresh Marketplace when the seafood extravaganza opened at 11:30am, not because I was so anxious to be the first to load my plate with shrimp and scallops but because I wanted blog-worthy pics for this post. And then I loaded my plate with twelve shrimp and six scallops. Pure joy. 😉
A thing of beauty for seafood lovers
By the time I finished that, the pastry extravaganza was opened in the back area of the buffet. I repeated last cruise’s carrot cake and cheesecake and it’s a good thing I did, because neither tasted even a little bit as good as they did last cruise. In fact, they didn’t taste like…anything. Just sweet. What happened?
Following lunch, we made a decision to watch today’s Texans v Pats game on our cabin TV instead of on MUTS. The cabin TVs probably have 55” screens, and that provides good viewing in a small cabin. That also allowed us to start packing up for tomorrow’s move to our new cabin. We weren’t far into the first game when we started to hear the fog horn and switched to the bridge cam channel to see it was a white out. I’m glad we weren’t watching the game on MUTS because we would likely have given up at that point.
We watched the Ram v Bears game (a much, much better game) on my iPhone while at dinner in the Michelangelo Dining Room, each of us wearing one ear bud, and then moved to the Princess Theater for tonight’s show during half time. Where there’s a will there’s a way!
Today’s Princess Theater show was called Mic Drop Moments with vocalist Connor Bogart, who was the rock tenor in last night’s protection show Rock Opera. We missed that last night but I would hugely wager that we’ll be seeing it again in the early days of next cruise before Connor leaves the ship. His own show tonight was fabulous, so entertaining. He is such a wonderfully talented (and nice) guy.
Towards the end of his show, my phone started lighting up with texts from my guys about the game, which had just gone into OT, so I stood with all the other guests in the smoky casino watching until the end of the game. I had no dog in that fight, but I love good football.
We move clocks back another hour overnight which is always a happy thing, but is especially appreciated tonight as I make up for last night’s sleep drought. We’ll have a couple more time changes at the beginning of the next cruise as we have five sea days sailing to Hawaii. BTW, we may have had fog today, but the seas were very calm on this return to LA, unlike last cruise where we had a fair bit of bounce. Fingers crossed things stay smooth all the way to Hawaii.
We stuck around the Piazza listening to party band Third Time Lucky perform Motown favorites and afterward listened to piano entertainer Brian Johnson in Crooners, the first time we’ve been there this cruise.
And, finally…this was another healthy cruise for me. Have I cracked the code? Perhaps, but I’ll need to do the same on the upcoming 16-night Hawaii cruise to feel confident about that. The ship usually gets the sick at about the two week mark. With any luck I’ll escape it unscathed.
