Where to next year?

So today was our second sea day, and last day of the cruise. We had breakfast in Luminae as usual and we were pleased to be back in the front with Serkan, who hasn't been there at breakfast much. After breakfast, we were able to secure a bridge tour, so we headed to the elevator bank at deck 10. At about 10:20, the suite manager came by to take us there. We had to do a wand scan (same as last year on the Reflection during the behind the scenes tour). After that, we headed to the bridge. One of the apprentice officers gave a short talk about how the wing bridge station works (we were roped off from the center bridge) and then we had a chance to wander around and take pictures. Roxanna then gently encouraged us to leave.

We had some time before lunch so decided do a stop at Cafe Al Baccio. As always, enjoyable.

At about 12:55 we headed to Luminae. We had some OBC to burn, so we'd invited our RLFs (real life friends) to join us for lunch. We'd cleared it with the Maitre'd and asked her to charge our cards 20.00 each for lunch.

Right at 1pm, Ryan and Melissa arrived. We were promptly seated at one of the tables for 4, and Serkin came over. Because our friends were new to Luminae, he explained the menu in detail, including an explanation of the Luminae burger. He did tell them that it was impossible to eat as a burger.

Beth decided to try her grill cheese again. We explained that she wanted the cheese and jam on bread, and then grilled. That pretty much worked. Both Ryan and Melissa decided to order the burger, and I opted for the Cobb Salad with steak. I started with the Butternut squash Veloute (ie soup) and I think the others did too. Serkin thought we should have the Burrata cheese salad, so he brought two for the table. We had a lively long lunch, and then said goodbye. I know we will see Melissa stalking in November.

After lunch, Beth went for a swim, and I decided to head to Michaels to work on the blog. At 4 or 4:30, a future cruise person was going to come in to talk to us about our next booking. A couple of our friends were there, so I chatted with the for a while.

Beth showed up a little after 4, but no future cruise person. He did arrive at 4:30, so my time was off. Not a problem though. We knew we wanted to book the Eastern Caribbean for the first week of August. That part was easy, the time was spent determining what room to book. We'd enjoyed having the suite perks, but the price difference between that and Aqua and Concierge wasn't big, so we selected Aqua. We picked a room roughly under where we are now.

After that, we headed back to the room for a while and then down to our final dinner with Ann and Greg.

Tonight we ate in the front part of the restaurant with our favorite waiter. For dinner, he recommended the short ribs, so we all had that, and started with the Burrata. Very good. We pretty much closed the restaurant, bid Ann and Greg a fond farewell (turns out not the last) and headed back to pack and call it a night.