Allure Day 6 - Surfing on a Cruise Ship? Why Not?

Today’s plans per my pre-cruise calendar:

9a-6p – flowrider (ride sporadically throughout the day)

8p – Chops

11p – Blue Planet

12a - twenty

We slept in a little bit this day, then up and to the flowrider around 9:30 or so.  They ran advanced from 9 to 10, and open riding from 10 to 6.

Here’s Dave pulling off his signature move.  I don’t think he named it. I give it a 10.0.

and Dave wiping out

I give this a 7.5 on the wipe-out scale.

While we were surfing, the staff told us, and announcements were made over the intercom, that the port side flowrider would be closed on Day 7 and they would be running a “Freedom Class Schedule” the next day.  That meant they would alternate between stand-up and boogie board all day.

Although we had made a pre-cruise pact not to be “slave to the flowrider” on this cruise, we somehow managed to surf almost all day on Day 6.  I think part of that was because we knew our time would be limited the next day and that it always gets crowded with people finishing out their cruise bucket lists on Day 7.  Part of it was, simply, there was no place we’d rather be.

We did take breaks throughout the day for food and other things.

Here are some photos I took of the ship’s model on the deck below the Windjammer.

And the obligatory flowrider pic

I like how they put fake plastic water in the flowriders.

Back at the (real) flowrider (the one with the real, not plastic, water), at some point mid-afternoon, someone in line said something like “call me crazy, but I just saw a motorcycle in the reflection of the Windjammer windows”.  Surely not.  On a cruise ship?

Next thing we knew, up rode Captain Johnny on his bike.  Right to the flowrider.

The next day, while I was watching Captain Johnny's daily noon address on the stateroom TV, he talked about his bike.  He said "the bridge is 213 feet wide and sometimes I need to get from one end to the other very quickly. So I use my bike."  Very cool that Captain Johnny is so visible and personable during the voyage.

After the flowrider closed at 6, we had a little time before our dinner at Chops. So we stopped by the Sand Bar (we had stopped here a couple of times before during the cruise and the bartender was super) and got a couple of cocktails.  Then we wandered the deck above the pool deck, found a couple of loungers, and enjoyed the sunset.

Chris took a few photos of the sunset and the ship.

(That’s not me)

Nothing like being out on open water during sunset.  Breathtaking.

And then there were only clouds

A few others had the same idea.  It was a nice evening.

6200+ passengers, you say?  Where is everyone?

The “Main Pool”.  This is where they had non-sports pool games.

This was one of those “take time to slow down and enjoy the vacation” moments that we have a hard time making.  So glad that we did. 

Having finished our drinks, we headed back to the room to clean up for dinner at what was our favorite restaurant on Oasis – Chops!