Saturday, January 27, 2024
I was happy to wake up and not be limping again. The pain had decreased to a twinge which was much easier to deal with.
We enjoyed our last Sea Day brunch. We were able to get a reservation soon after the dining room opened so the service was fast today. I tried the 12 Hour French Toast under House Special. It was okay. Much sweeter than I prefer. Chuck went with his favorite – steak and eggs.
We then went to the Casino as Chuck had discovered one of our favorite machines the night before: All Aboard. I wish we had found them sooner. We played on them for a while and then we went back to the cabin to start the packing process.
We had decided to let our suitcases be delivered to the port area by the crew instead of taking the luggage off ourselves. We made that decision because (1) we did not have an early flight and (2) we had heard it was really hard to get an elevator the morning of disembarkation and I knew I couldn’t carry my large piece of luggage down 4 flights of stairs.
We are used to instructions saying get your luggage tagged and placed outside your door no later than midnight. The Celebration’s instruction deadline was 10:00 pm.
Once we had packed up the majority of our belongings, we still had time to catch some sun from the balcony before it was time for dinner. I got another one of my favorite frozen drinks and brought it back: Miami Vice.
It was soon time to get ready for our last evening. Chuck had received a $50 dining card from the Casino, and we decided to use it at Emeril’s Bistro for dinner.
It is an ala carte menu and reasonably priced so we ended up with more food than we could eat. I took the last meat pie (empanada) back to the room and we offered the remaining creole boiled peel-and-eat prawns to a table of young men who were happy to take them off our hands.
The evening would have been perfect except for two things: (1) we kept having to flag down a waiter to give us more water and (2) the trio of musicians were playing so loudly at the nearby Latitudes Bar that conversation was impossible unless you yelled across the table. The music was so distracting that I forgot to take photos of the food which is a shame because it was all very good with a nice presentation.
Once we got back to the room, we finished packing everything up that we didn’t need for in the morning and got the bags tagged, locked, and placed in the hallway before the 10:00 deadline. We then enjoyed sitting on the balcony looking at the stars until it was time to call it a night.
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