DAY 6 BERMUDA: our last day

We were up at 8am this morning and headed to Breakfast to eat. I always make sure I get enough bacon to make my arteries harden. After all, there's no bacon police on NCL.

After breakfast we headed back to the room to get ready for the day. I looked outside to determine the weather and found this...

This cruise was blessed with so many rainbows. I think someone was trying to apologize for the bad weather we had on the way here.

The hubby started off the day with his bloody mary and a little sprinkle of rainbow after breakfast.

Now I've said it before and I'll say it again. These Olympus Tough cameras are awesome cameras and take great pictures. However, they ARE NOT a zoom camera. When you use the zoom on these cameras, the pictures turn out like crap and blurry and pixelated. Just plain crap. I have suggested many times to take a picture and then you can crop it in close to get that "zoom" look up close.

However, I have a hard time following my own directions. It's just like going to the refrigerator to find something to eat and nothings there. You go back 1/2 hour later...it's still the same, you know it's still going to be the same, but you do it anyhow. The same with zooming. I still try it every time...and then wish that I didn't. Silly me.

It looked like it was going to be a beautiful day. Woo Hoo.

Looking down reminded me that we needed to get off the ship soon. Even though the Captain was nice enough to extend our stay, I still wanted to make the most of the day.

We grabbed our beach bags and headed down and dinged ourselves out.

Of course we had to stop and take our picture with the various props.

Our choice for this day might not interest a lot of you. We decided to stay close to the pier and head to Snorkel Park. I know there's a lot of people on here that always try to steer clear of this place. After all, it's a man made beach, not the nicest sand, not a big beach, they charge you $5 to get in (where the other beaches are free) and I have even read reports awhile back about broken glass and getting cut up.

So while this might not be our first choice of places to go, it was the best choice for what was supposed to be a short day. After the Captain changed the time to leave, well we had already planned to go here and I had made enough rearranging of plans to last me the entire cruise. Today we were just sticking to the original plan and that's all there was too it. It would just last a little longer.

You can find my complete review by clicking on the tab below. There's 2 reviews on there and today's would be the second review midway down the page. If you want to see what the snorkeling is like...check it out!

We all decided to pack up and head back to the ship, shower and get into something dry and head out shopping at well.

It was a decent day at Snorkel Park and I'm glad we got to experience it and see what it was actually like. The snorkeling wasn't bad, not the greatest I have done, but there were a variety of soft and hard corals, fans, a "few" fish...nothing spectacular other than getting to see some squid and the octopus. But, it made for a good day and enjoyable and that's all that matters.

As for the reports of their being glass and trash in the water. I did find 1 plastic cup in the water when snorkeling. No glass. So, they must clean it up and when others have reported these things, my thoughts are as follows....HOW do these cups or bottles get in the water? They get there by people coming to this place and throwing them out there!! So that is no fault of Snorkel Park but of those inconsiderate enough to do this. If there's trash laying around, that's the people that come there. So don't blame the park for this. Pick up after yourselves! Keep the beaches beautiful no matter where you go and you won't have this problem. Only you are responsible for you. Do you part and stop acting like just because you're on vacation, everyone should do it for you. Don't forget your manors. End of rant...and just the way I see things.

I can't really tell you how much things cost here. Since we would be heading back to the ship to eat, I never checked out prices. We always bring our own cooler with pop in it so that we don't have to buying drinks. I do know that if you bought pop here, it came in a small plastic cup and was $3.00. A total rip off.

So we left at 2pm and as we headed out, we spotted the same roosters around the trees as before.

Out the tunnel we went.

Trying to get a picture in the tunnel of the ship docked. It did not come out the way I had hoped.

We headed back to the ship and took a super fast shower and got dressed and then headed back out to do a little shopping (and taking some pictures of course).

The kids had to stop and take pictures with the phone booths.

Of course when the hubby walked up there, he said "take this picture" and I knew exactly what he was about to do...

Kendra would copy

The big gigantic gnome footsteps...

The bus stop. It looks like people were still coming and going.

The one thing I did notice this time is that there wasn't a canopy over the bus stop area. I'm pretty sure there was one there last time.

The building you go in to buy your tokens.

The place to get the dockyard wifi (I was told last time around).

The pharamacy. This place was PACKED. It seem to be the store that had it all from trinkets to clothes. It was like a mini-Walmart at the dockyard. LOL

After doing a little bit of shopping at the Pharmacy, the girls were still in there and Kolin come running in saying that he needed a penny. He had found a penny smasher next door and was getting Courtney a Bermuda penny. We followed him over there and of course I had to get Sakari one too (we didn't bring her with us and decided to leave her at the kids club to make things easier to shop in a hurry). We were over doing our penny and Kolin went back over with the girls...then we didn't see them again until the Clocktower Mall.

It was 4pm and the ship was still waiting on us...this was really making me nervous since they usually want you back on the ship before now.

We made it to the Clocktower Mall and finally the kids caught up to us. We took pictures by the troll. I guess they have several of these around Bermuda, although I have yet to spot one at the beach, which is where I'm always at (lol), but if you see them, they are supposed to bring you good luck.

Kolin's interpretation of what should be going on...

The hubby comparing bellies.

There's plenty of these for sale...just in case you want to take any home with you.

There was a gentleman playing music in the hall.

The hubby said he was going to put this sign in his store. LOL

We got split up from the kids once again. I have learn to never shop with Kendra, she'll make you late and I wasn't about to chance it. We kept moving along quickly and purchased what we wanted and got out. You could tell Kolin was a little nervous and he would pop up in the store we were in, check on us, and run back out to where ever the others were at. Back and forth...that is until we were at the last store. Then we didn't see him anymore and headed out the doors.

Taking pictures on the way back to the ship.

Yep, I think we might make it...

The Carnival Dream sitting at the dock with us.

The Moongate. You are supposed to stop and kiss under them when you see one. It is supposed to give couples a long happy life together.

We did stop and get pictures on our way out when we were all together. I forgot to share them at that time, so I'll share them now. (It's a good thing we did this on our way out since we were now separated from the kids).

Poor Kendra, Billy did not come off the ship with us, so she doesn't have anyone to kiss.

She's very good at pretending though.

Our love, the Breakaway:

We were thanked for visiting.

It was officially 4:29pm. YIKES!

One thing I love about NCL is their welcome back party at the last port on the last leg of the cruise. They always make it fun to come back to the ship (as much as you don't want to and continue spending time on the awesome island) with lots of singing and dancing and the red carpet. They give you cold towels and drinks. It's just a nice awesome touch!

Even Dora and Diego was there dancing this time around.

We dinged ourselves in and we dropped to the ground and kissed it. We had made it in time. I have NEVER came back that late before. I plan on never trying that again. Just saying...

But where are the kids? I know there's no way they passed us up. :confused:

We figured we would head straight to the room and people watch the pier runners, which I was sure would be 3 of my own children.

We made it up to our room, out to the balcony and I spotted a turquoise shirt giving their keycard to security. Yep, the kids had made it. They looked up at us and waved and Kendra gave her 2 finger solute and they were on the ship.

Once they made it to the room, we headed to get the kids and off to get a bite to eat. I decided I wanted to head to Uptown to see what they had for lunch.

It was a little more crowded today than normal, but still plenty of seating. We managed to snag a table over by the window.

Today they were having hamburgers made your way. You give them everything from a list on a huge board (and there was a lot!!) and a lady takes your order and hands you a thingy ma bob to put on your table.

They also had a salad bar and you tell them everything you want in it and they make it for you there on the spot. I have to say this was YUMMY TO THE TUMMY! Like seriously.

When our order was done, they brought it out to us, complete with fries. It was all SO GOOD!

The beef patty was HUGE and I had it loaded with a lot of goodies. Man someone was going to have to roll me out of here.

We noticed the tug and we were pulling out. We actually left at 4:45pm instead of 5pm. I guess they had the head count and everyone was on board. Away we went.

After getting our bellies full, what better thing to do than...."Let's go rock climbing!!" Say what? You kids have energy for that? Gasp! So rock climbing it was. Sakari had been begging all week to do this and she wasn't about to miss out.

We made it up there and stood in line. Once Kendra and Brayden got up there, they said they were closing! WHAT?!? They explained that they thought it was about to rain and they would have to close. Kendra and Brayden walked off....and disappeared. We stood there and watched. Then they said "Oh why not...we'll go ahead and let a few more, but if it starts to rain, we'll have to close it."

Sakari was the first up. She was so excited. She had never done this before.

She did watch another little girl on the other side do it and this little girl was just a little taller than Sakari. So I think it was like a challenge to herself to make sure she did it as well. She's very competitive.

Away she went. My heart was pounding.

Ok, good start. At least you got the hang of how to do it and you made it off the ground.

Ok, here's the point where I wondered if she was going to keep going. She looked down once and had "that look" on her face. Courtney cheered her on and told her which foot to move next. I sat there speechless. Geesh, what a great mom.

She kept going.

I was completely stunned at this point. I NEVER dreamed she would make it this far at all. I figured after looking down and seeing how high she was she would freak out and give up. But then again...we are talking about my dare devil child since the age of 3 right?

SHE MADE IT!!! She rang the bell and she was happy as can be. 

Then down she came like a pro bouncing off the walls with her feet.

I was so proud of her and everyone was giving her a high five. The smile on her face was priceless.

I was so busy celebrating with Sakari that I didn't even notice Kolin was on his way up. Bad mom again.

He made it to the top in no time flat. So, I didn't get many pictures. LOL He should know better...you have to slow down, stop and pose for a picture for mom, then carry on. Didn't I teach you anything Kolin?

He rang the bell and down he came.

Well crap, I was busy running over to take a picture of Kolin in his rock climbing "uniform" that I completely missed Kenny all together.

I know he made it up there even quicker than Kolin. He may be a skinny dude, but he has some muscles after working in construction for the last 13 years. He's always the skinny dude in the game room that can hit the punching bag harder and make it go the most pounds against the big muscular dude that stands there in awww trying to figure that one out. He throws a lot of people off with how little he is but yet strong.

Since this seem to be another sports day, we decided to play some golf. It was a little more low key and something i felt I could do after eating such a big meal.

Now Kenny, Kolin and the girls all played a few days ago, so they decided to go up and play some basketball while we played golf. They shared a picture with me of their day golfing.

Yep, that's the extent of their pictures. Obviously they do not take after me. I have to take a picture of almost every hole. LOL

At this point I noticed we were passing by St Catherine Beach. I tried to get a picture between the fence, but it wasn't working very well for me.

You see the lady standing there? There was a whole family with a child that was maybe 2 years old. They weren't playing golf, they were using this as a playground. The kid was running back and forth and climbing on things. Obviously we were playing golf, but they weren't moving...at all. We stood there and stood there. They didn't even grab the child up and hold him so we could play on this one. At one point the hubby said "Let me go first, they'll move" and he put the ball down and gave it a whack. Oops....my bad, did that almost hit you? I guess you shouldn't be just standing there while we're trying to play a game. This isn't a playground.

Of course what did they do? They move on to the next area...the area we would go to the next round and the same thing would continue. Sigh.

We were passing the beautiful pastel homes now.

Sakari found a treasure chest. I didn't even realize this thing opened up. But she did for some reason.

We had a good time and I'm sure that we let Sakari win (I mean she won fair and square) and we were off to find the boys at the basketball court...who was no longer there.

I decided I wanted to head down to the Latitudes desk and check out this new booking while on a cruise thing called Cruise Next. We always buy a future cruise certificate. It's just such a great deal and too good to pass up. I love free money.

So me and the girls headed down to inquire about it and buy a FCC. 

The person at the desk ask if I was aware of the FCC...LOL, do you have any idea who you are talking to? (Of course you don't, but it was just a funny question to me). We did know about that, but I wanted him to explain the Cruise Next to me.

The more certificates you buy, the cheaper it is. 

Flip the paper over, and watch the pen go back and forth like a commentator describing a play by play on the football field. Uh, ok.

So pretty much: You book a cruise while you are on a cruise and you get to keep whatever CURRENT deals they are running at the moment. So, the current deal they had going was to pick from the various packages. For instance the UBP. If we booked now, we would get to keep this package for our next cruise, even if they no longer offered the package.

You are allowed to change the booking only once and still keep this same deal. That's it. That's the deal for booking while on the cruise.

If you know the cruise you want to book, you can do so then. If not, they'll book a "dummy" cruise for the latest date and then you change it from that date to what you want it to be. So, he booked us for March 26, 2017. I had no idea what ship or to where until I got home.

Now that I'm home...it looks like we are going on a Mexican Riviera cruise on the Jewel. Well we all know that's not going to happen since I have already been on the Jewel.

We headed back to find the guys and I had the biggest grin on my face. Of course it's one of those grins that makes the hubby say "What did you just do?" I screamed..."I BOOKED A CRUISE!!!" Woo hoo! :eek: "Um what?" LOL. He just shook his head and knew I wasn't kidding. I told him I would give him the details later when we got home. Haha. How many of you can throw something out there like that to your spouse, tell them I'll tell you about it when we get home (because of course I didn't even know what I had actually booked) and them just roll with it. :p He knows it's just me being me and he'll be along for the ride no matter what I just did. No complaints from him.

I picked up one of these just to look it over and contemplate.

The following day I would get one of these in our room confirming it was no lie

But I wasn't the only one remember...the girls are with me and they did the same. We put it all under my name (the FCC) to save money (which ended up costing us $125 each certificate worth $250, and we each got a room under our own names using the certificate. How easy is that?

Since this is my first time cruising as Platinum, I'm not too familiar with how everything works and what all you get. But I did know that you get a free dinner for 2 at a specialty restaurant.

So, we had booked with La Cucina for 7:30pm. After eating that huge cheeseburger, fries and a salad, there was no way that we were going to be hungry now. We stopped by to ask if we could post-pone our reservation. No problem! So we made it for 9:45pm hoping that we would be hungry by then.

Now we did try throughout the week to get into Second City for a show, but they were always booked up for when we wanted to go. We couldn't go during the adult shows because the kids club closed at 10:30pm, unless you wanted to pay for sitting.

So tonight was the night that we managed to get in to Second City, but only because we booked on Wednesday.

Our show was at 7pm and we all went back to the room to get dressed up. We sent the kids off to the kids club and away we went for the show.

It was an improv show. It was pretty funny and the kids enjoyed it. Every time I looked over at the boys, they were laughing.

After the show, we headed to the casino to donate our money for the evening...and donate we did.

Then we were off to our dinner at La Cucina at 9:30pm. We still really wasn't very hungry, but figured we'd just get something small.

We seen they had pizza on the menu and decided that would probably be the quickest to get and the least amount and most of all, we could share it.

We ordered the Salsiccia pizza and told them that we would like to be done by 10:30pm so that we could pick up our daughter from the kids club.

Now we are not really wine drinkers. I wish I could find a wine that I liked. I hate beer. I hate anything that has a bitter taste to it. However, we did get 1 free bottle of wine with our Platinum dinner. So, I was bound and determined to find something that I could drink. Now since we aren't wine drinkers, we have no idea what to order. I ask our waiter to make a suggestion. I told him I wanted the sweetest wine he had. He came out with something and as I looked at it on the menu, it did not sound appealing to me. I ask about the Rosemont, which said it had a touch of sweetness to it. The word "sweetness" caught my eye and I ask him about it. I basically wanted to know if it was "SWEETER" tasting than what he had brought us and he said "yes". Um...ok. So I ask for the sweetest wine you have because I don't like bitter and he didn't bring me the sweetest wine? I'm confused.

So that's what we ended up ordering and he brought it out. Remember again, we don't drink wine, but I do watch movies. He opens the bottle and pours some in a glass and hands it to me. Oh gosh, this is the part I have seen in the movies where I have to taste it, give him a reply, then he pours more in it and proceeds to the next glass. Sigh. I try it, I'm sure my eyes squinted, eyebrows up and a weird look on my face. Ewww! Yuck! Just like any other wine I have tasted in the past...bitter, bitter, bitter. Sigh. I'm never going to find a wine I like.

I nod my head as if "Ok, it will have to do" and he pours some for the hubby. He said, "hmm, pretty good" and the waiter finally walked away. Had I still had the wine in my mouth, I think I would have spit it out in my water cup. The hubby said it was pretty good and he could taste the peaches in it. But then again, he can drink beer with no problem.

I always take the same picture of the hubby on every cruise when we go out to dinner. This time would be the same.

Our "yummy" wine. Yes, I did drink about 2 glasses of it. I suffered, but I did it. Notice in the picture above I have a glass of diet pop next to it as well. Take a sip, wash with pop. I'm good.

Our pizza came out and I think we had about 2 slices each.

It was good and we knew we needed to feed Sakari, so we ask if we could take the rest back with us. They gave us something to put it in and then he proceeded to ask if I wanted dessert. Although I was STUFFED, I noticed cheesecake. I will NEVER pass up cheesecake. So that's what I ordered.

I could have done without all the fancy stuff on it. I don't like chocolate, so I didn't eat that and the fancy swirls of strawberry sauce I did my best to scrape off.

We headed back to the kids club, picked up Sakari and let her eat the rest of our pizza. She loved it and ate every last bite. Then back to the kids club she went so that we could go to the 80's party. She was reluctant to go tonight (notice a pattern every time there's a party going on?) She came up with the excuse that she wanted to draw instead. We convinced her that she could take her tablet with her and sit off in the corner and draw and I'm sure the counselors wouldn't mind. We confirmed once we got there and they said she could so all was good and off she went.

When we were on the Getaway, we all bought "80's" outfits. We went all out. We did our hair with a ton of aquanet and it was flipped to the side and big. This time, I told the kids I wasn't dressing up because...well to be honest, I've gained too much weight since then and couldn't fit in the same outfit. They brought their outfits though.

We headed to the party and waited on the kids to come.

I love the 80's and the music. It was my favorite time ever. We have a couple of 80's radio channels and Kendra and I listen to them all the time. She knows all the songs as well even though she wasn't born until 88.

The party was going and the music was playing. It wasn't as crowded as it was for the Glow Party.

This guy was hilarious. He was one of the workers on the ship and always involved in everything. Tonight he had the tightest pants on, big pink hair and omg the shoes. They were so tall and he wore them well!

The party went on and they played a lot of the rock bands. The people that were there enjoyed it...you could tell by the fist pumping again.

Then came the "show". It was the exact same show they had on the Getaway. They had guys dressed up as various 80's people like Madonna, Tina Turner, Kiss and so on. They mocked the band, they paraded around, they acted like they were singing the song. I had seen it before, it did not thrill me too much the first time, although it was funny, but the second time around seeing the same thing was just too much for us. So, we decided to leave. The kids never showed up. Kendra fell asleep, I believe Kenny wasn't feeling well again and I think Kolin headed to the casino with Billy. Sigh. I'm glad I didn't go out and purchase another 80's outfit and take the time to make my hair 2' tall and them not show. Momma would have been a little hot. 😡

We picked up Sakari by 11:30pm and only had to pay for 1 hour of sitting and headed back to the room and watched a movie before going to bed.

We had a seal this time.

Sakari did her nightly drawings, even though she had spent the last hour in the kids club drawing, she needed to do a few more before falling asleep. LOL

Then off to bed we went. Thank goodness tomorrow was a day we didn't have to get up early or be anywhere at a certain time. Zzzz....:)