May 21st, 2011: Day 7
The last day :(
It's funny because like with any trip, you start to crave home life again, and the same is true for me right now. I miss my kitties and my home and eating normally! But, I really am going to miss this ship (I do to this day!). She was a GREAT home for 7 days!
But back to the start of the day. B and I "slept in" again till around 7am and decided to get up since breakfast was to be delivered to Mom and Dad's suite at 7:30am. B left to get our laundry started (I thought laundry was going to be a pain, but it was quite nice actually! I highly recommend it if you feel like you have to get some laundry done while on the ship. We were running out of socks and stuff like that, so that's why we decided to do laundry. It made packing nicer too.) as I was getting ready for the day. I had done pretty well the whole trip with seasickness. I really only had one real wave of seasickness on the morning of the 2nd day. But this morning, I felt another severe wave of seasickness and sadly (without getting too gross about it), I had to visit the bathroom this time. It was very weird because the seas yesterday were much worse than the seas today. I felt pretty good the rest of the day though so at least there was that.
After a lovely breakfast on Mom and Dad's balcony, B and I finished our laundry and started packing. We then headed down to Club Fusion for a little morning trivia. We found Mom and Dad there too so the four of us played some trivia and did pretty well actually! We got 14 our of 20 correct! There were no prizes to be won and someone actually got more points then us anyways.
There wasn't much that we were interested in doing after that point, so we went to watch C, Mom, and Dad play bingo. No one won this time either, but Mom got very close!
It was then time for lunch so B and I went up on deck for a Taste of Alaska buffet...and there was sushi! Sadly, the sushi wasn't that good, but the pan fried salmon and Alaskan seafood paella was excellent!
Again, there wasn't much that we were interested in doing, so we went back to the room and surprisingly took a nap! It was a nice and comfy nap though!
We woke up in time to go to elevator roulette! Basically, they number the elevators in the section of the ship that you're playing in. You then bet on which elevator will arrive first after you push the button! It was fun, but we didn't see much point in sticking around so we bet it all, and lost (we played with fake money). It was pretty funny though!
We then went to hang out in Mom and Dad's room till dinner. We had another great dinner, but sadly, we had to say good bye to the great guys who had served us so well.
It was as we were eating dinner that we pulled into Victoria. It looked like a cute little town/city, so we decided to go on shore to explore. The problem was that the shuttle to downtown was $7.50 and the line was huge! We checked other modes of transportation and they were just as expensive. We then considered walking to downtown, but it was a good 30 minute walk. So we decided to just walk along the waterfront for a little while.
I'm glad we did because it was a beautiful walk! I do wish we could've seen the downtown area, but it was just too expensive, busy, and we wouldn't have had much time to explore anyways. So we took a bunch of pictures and turned back to the ship.
We actually got a sunset tonight so we went to the top of the ship and got some great shots as well.
It was getting late and there an early wake up call to deal with tomorrow, we we headed back to our rooms to prepare our bags for our travels.
It's been an amazing trip and we look forward to our next cruise. Hopefully in the near future!
I should take the time here to mention disembarkation. This is another process that isn't the most fun part of the trip because they try to get thousands of people off of the ship in a relatively short amount of time, and because it's the very end of your vacation. However, I felt like disembarkation was very easy. We had a later disembarkation than most so it was a little hard trying to find a place to hang out before we disembarked because we couldn't be in our rooms. But once our group was called to disembark, we all left the ship in a orderly and painless manor. Finding our bags was a little interesting as well, but after looking a bit more, we did eventually find all of our bags. They then loaded us on a bus and it was off to the airport. So, like I mentioned before, it was relatively easy and painless.
If you ever find yourself cruising on the Sapphire Princess, I have no doubt that you will have a wonderful vacation!
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