Day 6 Sea Day

Woke up to a cloudy morning. Went for my last run on the promanade deck, we disembark tomorrow morning. Even though I got out to run before 7:00 there were more people walking today, think people are starting to worry about all the calories they have consumed! 

After a shower we headed to the dining room for breakfast. We shared a table and were seated at the very end so only visited with a couple of women who were traveling with a group, Rollin Owen out of Kentucky. The group is ran by Owens Funeral Home, a lady who is the grief  support counselor for the funeral home started the travel group for widows and widowers, what a great idea!

After breakfast we went back to our room and took our cards up to the Lido deck to play cards. There are two couples who play Hand And Foot every day all day long at a table in the shade on the lido deck, don't know how they do it! I wonder if they have even got off the ship in ports! After a few rounds, the sun came out so we grabbed a couple aft pool deck chairs and enjoyed a couple hours in the sun reading and visiting with a couple who just happened to sit by us the other day on deck and we have ran into a couple of times :)

We have enough sun and decide to give up out prime spot and head down to deck 5 for a BBQ that is set up on the promanade. This ship has a really wide spot with bar and tables on each side of the promanade along with hot tubs that are very popular. Well, the food looked and smelled better than it was. We felt bad wasting it but just not going to eat something that is not very good. We left and went back up to the lido for Indian food. The Indian good is probably the best food served on the ship, along with the warm melting chocolate cake! We went back to our room to put on tennis shoes so we could walk some laps on the promanade. Today I instead of a towel animal we got a heart at the end of our bed from our room steward :)

After walking we went back to our room to enjoy the sun on our balcony along with wine and reading.

We started noticing more cargo type boats then what we think are oil rigs, lots of them, we must be getting close to the Mississippi.

Sunset :)

Headed to dinner and had to wait for a while for a table  but we had great entertainment in the atrium to watch while waiting, Fun Force, the break dance/acrobatic troupe.

The dinner menu was not very interesting tonight, actually we have found the food to be pretty boring in the dining room. I think the problem for us is cruise ships have to cater to the tastes of the majority of passengers who I think like eating familiar food and chain restaurants so they know what they are getting. We have noticed steak and baked potatoes have been the most popular item people order at dinner, or else some of the other big meat item and Carnival does not skimp on the servings of meat, they are huge hunks and slabs! 

This was very good navy bean soup should have had two bowls!

And this was the most interesting item on the menu tonight...Panco crusted shrimp (just fried shrimp!) and served with curly  fries that looked and tasted just like Arby's Curley fries, not that that is bad but an odd item for the formal restaurant (menu did not specify what it came with!)

Of course we had to have warm chocolate melting cake for the last time,  it is so good :) I am going to go through withdrawal :(

I did have a very good glass of wine tonight GIFFT wine. 

After dinner we went to the comedy club

Then time to get packed up and suitcases put in the hallway before 11:00. 

We started back up the Mississippi River about 9:30 I think. It was fun to step out on our balcony and watch the cargo ships pass by and see  land and the lights on shore so close to the ship. 

It has been a fun cruise but I am not feeling sad to be getting off tomorrow, we have more experiences in New Orleans to have tomorrow!