Sea Day – April 23

There was a Welcome Back to the USA Brunch today. Oscar was dressed as Uncle Sam. The Chef’s corner theme was Food Trucks. It was a combo platter with Gumbo, Hot Dog on a Stick and a Salmon Steak on a bun. Plus, all of the other great choices of hot and cold foods. The dessert table was severely lacking in chocolate, but the apple pie was very good. It wasn’t planned, but we were seated and then Rick and Janie joined us and not long after Karen & Steve joined. Kind of fitting since it will be the last time we can eat together on this trip. 

We spent the morning packing. Then, we went to the Cabaret Lounge to watch the performance of the Pacific Princess passenger choir with David. What a great show. After that they auctioned off the maps of the cruise and the flags of the cruise. (all the money goes to charity plus Princess matches the contribution) 

After that we had the final Bingo session of this segment. The jackpot was $1,000. Of course, the people that only play the final session normally win all the games. This time was no exception. Not complaining, since I did win the final one for $950 in the first or second segment. Greg & I also won quite often throughout for the smaller payouts. Plus, it was fun since we had a great group of us playing. 

Tonight, was also a formal night and there was a Captain’s Circle party at 4:30. 

The show tonight was a repeat of the production number called Super Groups. 

One more sea day and our world cruise comes to an end. There is always a bit of the end of cruise “depression”, which continues for a while after you get off. We met a marvelous family that is traveling with their young adult son who has Downs Syndrome, (and the whole ship has fallen in love with him) and someone told us at lunch that his parents had been talking with him trying to prepare him for the end of the cruise. I said “can they talk to us?”.  

Of course, we do have a lot to do as soon as we get back to Florida with doctor’s appointments, hair appointments, buying a car and the RV and numerous other things and of course mundane things like laundering the clothes from the cruise and getting storage organized of what will go in the RV and what stays in storage. Never a dull moment with us.