Friday and Saturday

Friday morning we woke up around 7:30 and hit the gym for my hour of cardio! Today I ran a mile on the track outside, then went into the gym and did 10 min on a machine, repeat for 60 min. After the workout we had breakfast. We hit the omelet station today. Yummy. And cheesy. MMMMMM.... Then we changed into our bathing suits for another day on the deck. The sun felt a lot hotter today than it did on Tuesday so we didn't last near as long. It wasn't as windy either. We laid out for about an hour and a half or so then sat in the hot tub and read in the shade for a while.

Lunch was a chocolate buffet!!! I remembered from last time that this wasn't as great as you would expect and it was the same this time. There was one cake that was to die for but everything else was just ok. The afternoon consisted of a long nap and more reading in the shade looking out over the water. We were kind of done with the sun by today. We ate ice cream cones and had our last sandwich at sea this afternoon too. Dinner was great as usual. Oh, they had this chilled mango soup that was amazing. Carnival's mango stuff is SO authentically mango tasting. We loved it! We said goodbye to Robert and Rico tonight. Sad. I love them. After dinner we headed back to the room to pack and then we saw the show. It was a sword swallower (weird) and a comedian that was pretty funny. Then we went to bed!

Saturday

This day was annoying and involved lots of waiting. Had breakfast. Waited for 3 hours to be allowed off the boat. (They were running late). Waited for 2 hours for our flight. Flew for 3 hours. Waited for 2 hours for a flight. Flew for 3 more hours. Waited for luggage and drove home. We hated Saturday.

Sunday

It was SO fun to see the kids today! They love the presents we brought them from key west (a pirate flag and eye patches and pirate rubber duckies) and Jamaica (a "spider mon" shirt and Rastafarian hat with dreads for Caleb and a Jamaican doll for Bryn). We had a great time. We're hoping for a Hawaiian cruise in late summer of 2009 if all works out as planned!