Cruise Day - Nov 4th

Our ship has slowed during the night... and why do we know? The time changes have produced some early wake ups for us as we transition into the Eastern Time Zone.  Kelly was off for coffee and I lazed around.

I headed down to Deck 5 for some laps as she elected to skip walking. I think I was around twice when she texted that she was on my tail and catching up! Good for her! We did our laps then headed up to the Windjammer for breakfast.

With only one full day left we had to start thinking about packing up our clothes. We both had long faces! We have a couple options for disembarking and the one we like is to just carry our bags off ourselves. This works great and we have had great succession the past with this method. Unfortunately the only times that allow this is between 6 and 7 AM!! As we have a hotel lined up it makes no sense to go that early so we will have them tag our bags ashore for us this time around. We plan to get off at 9:40 instead. That’s the plan at this point.

We started figuring out what we would need for our last night on the ship, morning departure, day in Fort Lauderdale and our flight home on Saturday.  No problem for the packing master herself!

Bags organized we arranged to meet the Orr's and Green's at the windjammer for lunch . We planned out the afternoon for the meet up with the two other ships later on.  Depending on the positioning of the ships, our balcony could be a great view point... also Patty & Guy had a bottle of champagne that need to be emptied so this would be a great opportunity to do just that.

Cathy had been giving Bryan some grief on his golf game so we headed off for a round. It was fun and a definite improvement since Kelly's last outing on Adventure! 

We watched some flowrider action and then started to see the arrival of the other two ships. These are the Allure Of The Seas and Oasis Of The Seas, both slightly shorter than our ship but combined they are the three largest cruise ships in the world all in on place.

Kelly and Cathy with the Allure of the Seas prepping for the formation.

The crowds all gathered for a prime vantage point to view the formation. We basically form up at different angles and then past one anther to repositioning. It was obvious that our balcony would be prime viewing so we all headed there.

Oasis and Allure

 The view was fantastic as the ships moved around. We toasted the occurrence with champagne and enjoyed the helicopter flybys.

Pano of Allure from our balcony.

We loved it!

Another shot of Allure... Oasis is behind her.

After the ships broke off we returned towards the port for additional sunset photos with the helicopter. It was great weather for them! Click to see the video that was shot that day... three ships

We all headed off to prep for dinner and shows on our final night. Kelly and I headed to the Beatles Music Show in the main theater. It was great I will say. The crowd was on their feet singing away.

After that performance we met up with Patty & Guy for dinner in Chops Grill.  It was great once again. Cathy & Bryan had an earlier dinner at 150 Central Park but after dinner, we all met up one last time to say goodbye. 

These folks helped make our trip all the more enjoyable and I suspect we will see them again... maybe on a cruise ship someday:-)

We headed for bed after another exhausting day.