Carnival Spirit - Final sea day

This cruise has absolutely flown by - I can't believe it is the last day at sea before we dock back in Sydney tomorrow. 12 nights gone in a flash. We're already talking about our next cruise, maybe PNG??

The weather was absolutely stunning, sun and flat seas.

Breakfast on the Lido - what a view

The crew had been busy making towel critters, they were all over the Lido!

View from the pokey out bit

Full steam ahead (even though we wanted to turn around!)

The lovely, towel animal filled, Lido

Final sea day and last day of a cruise also means, final day to grab a bargain!! Wow, do people go crazy when there's a 'sale' on!!

Buy 5 get 1 free - and people were!!

My sister and I went for a bit of a wander around the ship and accidentally ended up somewhere we weren't meant to be. We just wanted to get back inside and to the buffet - it was lunch time!

Crew only!

I'm not sure where this went to, we didn't want to hang around in case we got told off! Up to our cabin to see if the boys were there and then to the buffet for yummy lunch! The toasted sandwich station was great - we had the tuna wrap. Just what we need for lunch, nothing too heavy. Don't want to spoil our appetite for dinner! Mum didn't mind, she had a bit of everything. After lunch we headed upstairs and went for a walk around the top deck and the pokey out bit. Great view from here.

The pokey out bit - technical term

Mum had some cute towel animals waiting for her back in her cabin.

Mummy snail and baby snail

We then went down to deck 1 as we hadn't been down there before. There's is a lounge here where smaller shows were on and the comedian.

By mid afternoon we were getting a bit peckish and seeing as our dinner wasn't until 7.45pm we decided to get pizza! What's that about spoiling your appetite ;-) We loved the pizzas. Sometimes it was a bit of a palava trying to get a pizza, mainly at the busiest time during lunch so we only went when it was quiet. After a rest in a pod we headed to the room to get ready for drinkies and dinner. We decided to hand out on deck 2 near the atrium (or aquarium). The waiter was pretty good here, it doesn't seem to take them long to remember you and what you order - their memories are amazing.

Cheers to a fantastic cruise!

Dinner was fabulous as always and of course showtime was going to be even bigger and better than ever. Our final evening in the restaurant was one we all enjoyed so much and really topped off our cruise. Cheers to Dessi and the waitstaff - you all deserve a huge round of applause. Thank you.

Yum!

Thank you Dessi and friends

Simply The Best

We said our farewells to our wonderful waitstaff, Yasa and friends, and headed back to our cabins. It was going to, possibly, be an early start tomorrow as we arrive back in Sydney at 6.30am. We needed our beauty sleep as we also had the XPT to look forward to!