Last Day of our Cruise

Last Day of our cruise,

We have to go home tomorrow.

We did not set a wake up call but we woke around 7:20. We were dressed and on our way to breakfast about ten minutes to eight. In our little mail box there was a piece of paper so when we opened it we found a note written in pencil.

It read:

Hi, we’re Marion and Joan Chomey and we were wondering if you are the same Carolyn Abramson we were dinner mates with on a back to back Alaska Cruise 6 to 8 years ago. We’re in C235 if you want to contact us.

Right away we remembered them and I went to our cabin phone and suggested we meet for lunch. Ken suggested that we should have met them in their room because we might not recognize them and we could be looking for them forever. Anyway we went to breakfast and it was a great one. We have had such great luck with our table companions at breakfast time. Anyway we visited and laughed for more than an hour.

After breakfast we decided to go and check out the pictures we had taken last evening. When we came onto deck seven there were Marion and Joan. We recognized them right away. We had a quick visit . They said they heard my name on the Wake Show and on the show it was said that we were on Baja deck. Marion decided to walk the deck and see if he could find us. Much to his surprise he found Carolyn and John Abramson. His first thought was that the name was not John and did I re marry someone named John. He knew us as Ken and Carolyn and did not realize that Ken’s legal name is John.

We agreed to meet for lunch.

Ken and I continued on to the photo department and after a lot of deliberation we choose which picture to purchase. We bought only one.

 I checked out the holiday sale and bought nothing but I did get Grand Marnier for Christmas, and a bottle of dark rum. If we are flying we do not take advantage of the liquor prices on the ship but when we are walking off it is just too good a deal to pass up.

We next came to the cabin to begin packing. We got most of it done by the time it was time to leave for lunch. We met Marion and Joan and had a wonderful visit. We caught up on lots of news. They are younger than us and are not yet retired but they have been doing some cruising.

By the time we left the dining room it was after two so we had to finalize our packing, put on the luggage tags, write thank you notes and add extra tips for our waiter, assistant waiter and our room steward.

They announced that the stage mechanism had been repaired and we could go to the show tonight if we wished. We decided to pass. We will see it another time. I watched the Blue Jays win their ball game. Yeah Jays!!

We had to wear our travel clothes to dinner because the suitcases would be set into the hall for pick up.

Tonight was the parade of the baked Alaskan and the thank you to the kitchen staff.

We took pictures of our table mates and gave envelopes to the waiters and said our good byes.

When we got to deck 7 I stopped for the photo raffle. You had to be there to win. I was there but I did not win.

A great little cruise has come to an end. Our time to disembark is 9:45 and our friend Bob will be picking us up.

Now the packing in earnest must begin.

But the next cruise is only seventy eight days away.