April 7, 2014
 Sea Day

 We tried room service for breakfast for the first time. We ordered coffee only for 0600. This gave me the wake up I need and I didn't have to run to the lido deck for coffee and drink while we walked. I liked it a lot better.  We tried walking around deck 5 today, but because of high winds the deck all the forward was closed. The seas were pretty calm though. We decided to go to the gym instead and walked on the treadmill for a while.
  After grabbing the younger girls from our cabin, we headed up to the buffett for breakfast. We used the one by the Aft pool. no lines! Those that wanted an omelet went inside to get one. Those lines usually arent too bad.

chess

  We changed our clothes to swimsuits for some swimming. We hung out on the Aft deck again, Its not very crowded and the hot tubs were empty. One hot tub seemed to be too hot(all week) so we ended up in the one closet to the bar(handy!) We hardly saw any guys walking around for bar service(all week) so we ended up getting our own. That kinda sucks because you have to get out of the water and and sit soaking wet at the bar waiting to be called on. After being thoroughly wrinkled from the water we dried off by resting on one of the lounge chairs. The sun was out and strong. It felt so good after the winter we had. Once dried we put on our shirt/shorts over our suits and headed back to deck 5. The girls were teasing each other about who could be the chess winner.
 Later I took my oldest(18) to the casino as she had never been old enough to play. We started out with $100 to share and left with $156. Good deal!

appletini

  We all met in the area they were hosting Karaoke by the Taste Bar. Nicole was brave enough to sing a song! She did really well. A lot people partcipate in the Karaoke and it is surprising that people are very supportive. No one laughs, and everyone gets applause. Its a lot of fun to watch and participate.  They have it everyday either in the area they have the Taste Bar or in the comedy lounge.

  Instead of dinner in the main dining room, we had pizza and watched a movie under the stars. Hunger Games was playing. The pizza place, "Pizza Pirate" is pretty good. Its all made fresh to order. You can only choose from a few selections. Some people were upset they didn't offer sausage and acted a little foolish over it. I loved the pizza actually. I ordered the prosciutto and some kind of greens on it like Arugula. Yummy!!! Pepperoni is also good.

 It gets a cool on deck when the sun goes down. At the towel hut you can sign out blankets. They were really nice and soft and warm. They also serve popcorn. Its not very buttery and kind of dry. Make sure you have a drink to go along with it. We all had fun watching the movie.
 We went to the comedy show after the movie. The comedy show is located all the way aft. The comedian was a no show so the stand in guy was the host. Jeff, the fun guy. He was okay. He repeated a lot of the jokes throughout the week. I laughed a few times so it wasn't a wste of time.

Tomorrow is Aruba. We don't dock until 1pm. Yeah. It was a great day.