It's the last full day of our cruise, and I'm a little sad. We've gotten used to the routine of cruising, and we've been away from reality for the better part of two weeks. Right now, we're one day away from San Francisco, and we're getting ready to go home. Our bags are almost packed, and we're figuring out how to keep our big bags under the 50 lb. limit for the plane. (Luckily, we have a hand scale that we can use.) With this being said, we'll end up going home, then getting ready for another cruise.
Right now, we have to pick up our pictures from the photography studio, and burn off our remaining onboard credits. RQS will be going to a spa session, while I'll be buying a watch I don't need. It's not the best way to spend money. These are just the best ways we can think of to use these credits.
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Given that my shipboard non-refundable credits were still over $200, I knew we had to burn off some of these credits quickly as this was the last day of the cruise. The first thing we did after a late breakfast was to go downstairs and see if a watch I wanted was available at a price I wanted to pay. It was. $95 later, the watch was being adjusted for my wrist, and we were off to the lounge for 45 minutes. And then we were off to the Crab Shack pop-up restaurant.
On certain sea days, Princess turns its Crown Grille restaurant into a seafood joint (Crab Shack) serving a limited menu focused on crustaceans. We weren't able to get reservations for the first Crab Shack pop-up on this cruise, but we got one for the last day of the cruise. RQS compromised with me, and we ordered the Seafood Bucket for Two. YUM! Lobster, Snow Crab Mussels, Tiny Clams, and Shrimp - all cold, fresh, and Tasty. I wasn't sure of how we'd have room for our last dinner on the ship. But I knew that we'd find a way to do so.
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Around 1:30 pm, I noticed an email from JetBlue telling me that we could now check in for our flight. When I looked at things, our assigned seats were gone. This could be a great disaster for us, as I need to have an aisle seat, and RQS strongly prefers one as well. So, I contacted our travel agent and found out that he was on vacation. Yet, he took care of the problem and got us decent seats for the trip home.
At this time, I also found out that a charge made to RQS's account should have gone to my account. So I had to trek to guest services to move the charge to my account. At the end of the day, my credit balance was $0.03. Not bad for people trying to use up both refundable and non-refundable onboard credits.
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Shortly after 7 pm, we went downstairs for our last MDR dinner. As usual, no one ended up seated with us. (This MDR was way below capacity, so we weren't surprised.) I had a seafood cocktail (more like a salad with seafood) and the seared salmon. Yum. Too bad my stomach was still digesting lunch. But we made sure to thank our two servers profusely, and give them tips before we left for the last time. When dinner was over, I went upstairs to get things ready for tomorrow morning, while RQS went to the casino to make a donation.
