Champagne with friends at sailaway

We saw some cruise friends from Scotland while leaving Skywalkers, and they invited us to their favorite spot for sailaway and sunset and to share a bottle of champagne...but it was BYOG (glass). So we stopped by a bar to pick up two chilled flutes, and joined them on Deck 17 forward (or, as we called it, the balcony for those of us who book inside cabins). While up there, I took some pictures of areas I'd not yet photographed, forward (the Lotus pool is under the area with the lights) and aft (the Neptunes pool and behind that the Calypso pool and the MUTS screen).

We enjoy all of this so much that we made a decision Wednesday to pay for a tenth cruise, from February 6 to 16. Thanks to those (especially you Mom!) who encouraged us to do this. We took your advice to heart, and so will be spending 100 days straight on the ship- almost a World Cruise without leaving the hemisphere.
Will we get tired of this? Well, time will tell. But we do know that we have never left a cruise ready to return home; we were always wanting to continue. And we hedged our bet by buying insurance for every cruise. We can cancel a cruise up until sailaway for any reason and get our fare applied to a future cruise. If we decide it's time to go home, we can.

And we can all be shocked.