Last Day at Sea {Adriatic: Day 9}

Oh, lazy day!  We welcome you!

That's the thing about these European vacations.  (Don't you love how I just threw that out there like we do these all the time? ha!)  They are incredible, but ex-haust-ing. I remember coming back from our 2007 trip feeling like I could sleep for days. Y'know, the old "I need a vacation after that vacation" feeling.

One of the nice things about these extra days built in is that it gives us a chance to rest, guilt-free. We aren't sleeping, missing out on a chance to see something we've never seen before. So, hey, why not sleep until noon when you're an old person that can't adjust time zones. (It's so bad our room steward that comes to make up our room each morning commented on how we must have forgotten to unlock the door and turn the "do not disturb" dial this morning. Nope, René, we were actually still in there sleeping. Ha!  And then he mumbled something about us having been here a week.)

One of Rene's creations

Elephant towel animal

Today was so lazy that I really don't have pictures of anything other than my feet at the end of my pool chair with the ocean view (it was an ambitious day).

So, here's a little peak around the Norwegian Jade, one of NCL's "Jewel" class mid-size ships. She is small enough to be super easy to navigate, but big enough to have some fun things to do, with restaurants to choose from and good entertainment.  And essentials like a Carlo's Bake Shop cupcake and cannoli stand.

I'm going to miss having one of these each day.

 

Most of our dinners have been here, in the Grand Pacific dining room.  Since it is at the very back of the ship, we had some great sunset ocean views.

Hooray for living up to our potential today as fat, lazy Americans.  I thought by this point in our vacation, I'd be starting to feel ready to get home.  But, we actually talked over dinner how we wish we had gone broke and booked the back-to-back cruise that does the second week in the Greek Isles.  Especially since our brief face time with the girls was met with a nonchalant "oh.  Hey, Mom.  Hey, Dad."  Not to be disturbed during their MarMar (or Mickey) time.  Now that we know that our children are having more fun without us, we are already feeling disappointed about this trip winding down!  But, we are going to make the best of our last port tomorrow-- Split, Croatia.