Day 4 of Cruise/End of Trip

Thursday was our "Day Out at Sea". We were so exhausted from getting up early the past few days, we decided to sleep in a little bit. I ordered room service for breakfast for me since Chris didn't want to eat breakfast so he could have lots of room for lunch. Haha Boy did he love those lunch buffets! :) So I just got some cereal and fruit. When we finally got up for the day we headed to the top of the ship where the Spa/Gym was and sat in the steam room for a little bit. There were a few naked women in my steam room, so I only stayed for like 10 minutes cause that was just awkward! Chris was coming out of his at the same time I was which was funny cause he told me he would be in there for like an hour. :) So we went back to our rooms to get ready for the day and head to lunch! 

 

 

We ate our food outside on the deck. The weather was SO NICE! I really miss that warm sun. It's starting to get so cold here in Idaho! :( After we ate, we were walking by the pool area and they were doing a "Hairy Chest" contest. They had 4 men up on the stage competing who had the hairiest chest. It was one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time. Two women had volunteered to be the judges and each man had to take a turn dancing to music, take off their shirt, and let the women feel their chest hair. I don't think I could be a judge. I would just be in shock the whole time. :) They eliminated one guy each round to finally choose a winner. But that was definitely great, cheap entertainment.

We then went to check out the casino. The couple times we have gone to Vegas we each decided to take a few dollars to the quarter machines and see how much we can win. But we only stick to those few dollars and then quit. I usually double my dollar and am happy with that. So, we figured we could take a few dollars and win a few dollars more! Nope. We each had like $5 and we both lost our money in a matter of seconds! So, it looks like the machines on cruises aren't very good ones. Haha

Then we went to the top of the ship and played mini golf! It was super windy and it seemed like everyone chose to play golf right at that time. :) But we got a game in and it was really fun. What was really funny was when we added our scores at the end, we both got the same exact score! Now how often does that happen?? We are just that good. :)

We went back to our room to relax and watch a movie. They had a bunch of movies showing all week including "Men in Black 3", and "Mirror Mirror." After being in our room for a couple hours we both started feeling a little nauseous. We hadn't gotten sea sick all week, but that day we really felt it. I think the mixture between not eating for 6 hours, the smells of cigarette from the casino, being in our room for so long, and the boat rocking a little bit did not add up well! So, we quickly got ready for dinner and headed outside. As soon as we got some fresh air and some food in our stomachs, we felt a lot better. That was the only time we felt sick our whole trip so that wasn't too bad! 

We had decided to not do the formal sit down dinner that night and do the buffet instead. After we ate we headed to the big show room for the last show of the week! We got some strawberry daquiris (virgin of course! :) and found a good seat for the show.

They played music from every decade and had dancing and fancy costumes. They were so good! Those performers were so talented, and could sing and dance so well. The time went by so quick! But it was such a fun show. We decided to spend the rest of the night in the hot tub so we went and got our suits on and headed to the back of the ship.

We met a few nice people out there and ended up chatting with them for like 2 hours! The nice thing about those hot tubs was that they weren't too hot so you could sit in them for a long time and be just fine. We loved it! We then went back to our room and got all of our luggage all organized and ready to leave in the morning. We were so sad it was already over! We kind of wished we had done a week cruise. But it was good to find out if we would like it, and we definitely DID! We had to wake up at 5:30am so we got in bed early cause the morning came quick! (Chris took a picture of me while we were walking back to our room)

Friday morning we got up and gathered all of our belongings and grabbed some breakfast so we could be at our meeting place at 7:15am to start getting off the ship. We had set up a shuttle to the airport with the cruiseline so they let us get off pretty early so we could get to the airport. We were thinking we would have to wait a while to be able to get off, and then go and wait for our shuttle for a while, and finally get to the airport, but we were literally off the ship, on our bus, and at the airport by 8:30am!! Our flight wasn't until 1:30pm, but I definitely would have scheduled an earlier flight if I had known we would be there so early. We even had to wait an hour before checking in. Haha It totally helped Chris's worries of missing our flight. :)

We made it back to Salt Lake where Lauren picked us up and took us to their apartment so we could pick up our car. We wanted to stay the night that night in Salt Lake and drive to Idaho the next day, so we went and checked in our Hampton Inn room and thought about what we wanted to do for the night. We decided to go to IKEA since I had never been there. That place is so cool!! I can now understand why everyone says they can spend all day there, cause I wish I had all day to be there! :) We bought some sheets for our bed and talked about our dream house and everything we would put in it. I loved it. I had gotten a free meal from Tucanos and had also never been there either, and Chris had never been there, so we went to Tucanos for dinner! It was SO YUMMY!! WHY had I never been there before?? I lived in Utah for 5 years and I never went. I am so dumb. Pretty sure every time we go to Salt Lake now we are going to go to Tucanos. :) It was definitely worth the money. 

 We were so full and so tired that we went back to our hotel and crashed. It was time to wake up the next morning and head back to Idaho! What a fun week it was for us. I can't wait to plan our next trip!! :)