DAY 6 SEA DAY Friday December 15

This was originally going to be our sea day so had no plans other than to hang out at the pool and try to find some activities to keep my family busy today. As I've mentioned before, I don't like sea days because they're boring to me, but now we were forced to endure two of them in a row. I'm an active person and you can only walk the ship back and forth so many times. 

That meant today would be a sleep in day right? Well, if you want to call 7:15am a sleep in day then so be it. 

We like to try to eat in one of the main dining rooms during the cruise and decided since we were not in any type of hurry today, we'd try out Savor for our morning breakfast. Its all about the experience and feeling like you are in a fancy restaurant. 

So off we went...

The breakfast menu:

Sakari was excited that we were seated next to a window. There's nothing like eating a meal and staring out the window at the beautiful water.  It reminds me of when we were both in school at the same time and would cruise and come to the dining rooms to do our homework. Very hard to concentrate but we managed somehow. 😄 

I don't remember what the family had for breakfast because I forgot to take a picture. As the cruise days wind down, so does my picture taking skills and I take less and less.

I ordered the Pretzel Roll Sandwich, no ham because I don't like ham, and also the fruit salad plate. It was all yummy!

We headed up to the pool deck to find a beautiful little rainbow coming out of the water. 

So what better way to kill some time than to play some ping pong. We played for hours and made up our own games. Play with your left hand, play with a paddle in both hands, just keep that ball in the air no matter what it bounces off of...just keep it going! We have so much fun with this and we're constantly laughing to the point I'm in tears at times.

After my arm gave out we decided to do a little bit of shop browsing. I wanted to look for my ship ornament and wasn't too hopeful they would have them. On our Joy cruise, they did not have any and I was told they wasn't sure if they would continue to have them. How am I supposed to keep my tradition going?? I have searched the internet to try to find a Joy ornament and also an Epic ornament with no luck. If anyone is going on either and they have these, please get me one and I'll pay for it and shipping. I've tried going on roll calls with no answers in the past. 😞 

Once we made it to the gift shop, guess what I found!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was beyond excited!! So either they had a bunch of them they haven't sold or they ARE still selling them on the ships and was just out on the Joy??

Now I can add it to my collection. 

Hiding a few ducks along the way back to the room to put my newly found ship ornament up.

We decided to head to the pool for a bit. Of course we still have to go in the "family" pool, which is essentially a pool for little munchkins that like to splash and get rowdy. I cannot wait for the day we can all be in the adult pool just relaxing and neither can Sakari. 

The pool adventure didn't last long and the water was cold so Sakari wanted to go up a flight of stairs to the hot tub. We pretty much had one of them to ourselves and enjoyed our time up there. I thought it was going to be crowded since it was a sea day.

They did have the drop water slide open and I caught Sakari starring at it. I ask her if she wanted to try it but the only problem is they won't allow anyone on them if you have any type of bathing suit with a clasp, jewelry on and so on. They are super strict about it. We would also watch several people get stuck in it. She decided it wasn't worth it to go change.

We did decide to go on the raft waterslide. It was a lot of fun and honestly there wasn't a lot of people on it when we went up. But the workers are so SLOW! People would go, be out of the water and they still just have you waiting as they would stack the tubes, then restack, then switch them around, not pay attention...like come on already!

We ended up going in a double tube together and had a lot of fun on that 30 second ride we waited an hour for. 😉 

We headed back to the room to get into some dry clothes and then it was game on...UNO time!

We did manage to talk daddy into a few games. He's never played UNO. Can you believe it? Either he really hasn't or acted like he hasn't and tried to pull a few moves over on us and claim he didn't know any better. lol

All these challenges made us hungry and we decided to go on the prowl for some food. 

I had to leave another duck behind before we left. 

We walked around the ship multiple times as I took some pictures of the different venues for this review as the family tagged along wondering if the torture was ever going to stop. So I agreed to head back to the room again to hang out with Sakari on the balcony for awhile sunning. 

Christopher stopped by to clean the room and I ask him for a laundry bag, since there wasn't one in the room, so that we could get our free Platinum bag of clothes washed. On the last cruise I completely forgot to use this coupon. 

This is such a task and similar to playing Tetris. You fold the clothes in various ways to fit as much in as possible without tearing the bag and having to start over. I put clothes in, I take them out, I try different ones, I take them out. Then once I have meticulously placed everything in, I remove them once more to take pictures of everything. I learned my lesson once before that everything that goes in doesn't necessarily come back and can get lost and they will want to know what it looks like. Ok, got my pictures of everything and back in the bag they go. Christopher told me when I was done to just sit them outside my door and he would pick them up when he was done cleaning the rooms. That made me a little nervous, but everything worked out ok...at least I had hoped since my bag was gone the next time I looked.

Christopher handed me a paper to reinforce that we would NOT be going to Great Stirrup Cay. Way to remind me and bust my bubble. I was really hoping some miracle would occur and they would change their mind. 

Tonight we would also be due for a clock adjustment again. 

I decided to make reservations for The Texas Smokehouse...or "Q" as they call it, since I still had one other free Platinum coupon to use up. 

It had gotten a little cloudy out. No more sun for us I guess. So we killed some time watching a Christmas movie.

We wanted to try to go to the Social Comedy Club again and see if the shows were any different than the rest of the cruise. Tonight, Jon Stringer was having a 6pm show, so off we went. Sakari and I thought that the show may be different, the hubby thought it would be the same. It was now a game of who will get this right?

The hubby wanted to sit in the front row. He said the seats would be more comfortable. I really didn't want to but I obliged anyhow. 

The show started and he said a few things that we hadn't heard the other night. "HA! Told you" Sakari said to daddy. Then the show went on...and was exactly the same as the other night! "HA! Told you" said daddy. Well guess what...we are now stuck in the front row and didn't want to be rude and get up and walk out in the middle of the show. Although the show was the same, he did somehow get onto the subject of dieting (which was in the other show) but this time he mentioned Keto dieting and our lovely daughter decided to furiously point at mom and dad. Well since he noticed that, it went into some Keto jokes that never ended, which also led into Gluten Free dieting. Way to go daughter! We're leaving you home next time!

Since Sakari misbehaved during the show with her pointing fingers, we grounded her back to the room and we headed off to the casino.

We did pretty well tonight. The hubby walked away with an extra $122.75 in his pocket and the Goldfish game gave me back all the money I had spent playing that night with a few extra bucks for coming. 😉 

Always cash out when you're ahead. Don't be greedy. I left a duck as my appreciation to the casino and hopefully it will give someone else some luck. 

We were back in the room at 8pm and time to get ready for dinner. Our reservations were for 9pm, but we went early to see if they could accommodate us...and they did. 

Sakari always loves dressing up. 

The place wasn't too crowded. It is a pretty big restaurant. They have an area for live bands, but no one was playing tonight I guess. 

Here's the menu:

We also get a free bottle of wine with our voucher so we ordered a Moscato and boy was it good! I have not had any wine for a long time. 

For an appetizer, the hubby ordered some fancy Deviled Eggs:

I ordered the Q's Chopped Salad:

Sakari only wanted the Loaded Fries...as her meal.

For our main course, the hubby and I both had the Pitmaster Platter, which included just about everything: Brisket, Ribs, Chicken, Sausage, Coleslaw, Potato Salad, Beans, Cornbread. You also got 2 other sides and I picked corn on the cob and onion rings. The hubby had a sweet potato and a side salad.

Now that's a feast! I shared a bunch with Sakari because honestly, this is a meal for 2 people!

After dinner, desert would be some type of fancy Banana Pudding. 

I've heard mixed reviews about this place and some people said it wasn't good but we thought everything was good. Not the absolute best we've ever had but for a free meal it was outstanding! 

However, I would NEVER pay this kind of money for the meal. Just outrageous prices I tell ya!

We had a great night out with lots of laughs and good conversations and that means everything in the world to me. Sharing great memories with my family. 

We took the long way back to the room and was wondering around the halls, trying to find a place to put my last duck of the night. 

It's always funny to see if Sakari can figure out which way to go when we switch up things. She will randomly look back to see if we are still following and to get that approval look that she's still headed in the right direction. 

She safely returned us back to the room and had redeemed herself from her mishap at the comedy club and we headed to bed at 11pm. Zzzzz