Allure Day 7 - Lazy, Last Sea Day

I forgot to recap Day 6 with our daily calendar/plans.

Day 6 plans per my pre-cruise calendar:

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

8p – Chops Done

11p – Blue Planet (forgot/skipped?)

12a - twenty Done

 

For Day 7, here's what my pre-cruise calendar looked like:

9a-5p - flowrider

5p-6p - watch Best of the Best at flowrider

 

Not too ambitious of a day, huh?

 

Well, as I mentioned before, things changed a little.  The port side flowrider, normally used for stand-up surfing, was closed all day.  They were planning to replace the pumps on Sunday while in port, so they needed to disassemble it.

 

This meant they ran a staggered schedule on the starboard side flowrider, alternating between stand-up and boogie board during the day.

 

We knew this, and we wanted to get as much water time as possible on our last day.  So we got up and made it to the flowrider at 9am.  They ran "advanced" (load yourself) for the first hour.  Then stand-up from 10-11.  We stayed until 11, then went to the Windjammer for breakfast.

 

We ran into our friend Dave from the flowrider at the Windjammer and he was walking around with his head cocked to one side, turning his whole body to see things, because he couldn't turn his neck.  We found out that he had hurt himself on the flowrider that morning and couldn't move his neck.  This meant he was out for that evening's Best of the Best competition.  And Dave was the best rider on the ship, so this was a real shame. :(

 

After breakfast, we walked around the ship for awhile, just taking in our last day.  Then Chris went to the gym and I wandered around a little, checking out the various events like trivia contests.  I ran into Captain Johnny on the Royal Promenade.  With his parrot. (?)       

I took some pictures of things I hadn't earlier.  Like this little puppy sniffing about.

This artwork is next to Sorrentos in the area leading out to the jogging track and one of the gangways when the ship is in port at Port Everglades.  I remember on Oasis, this same spot has some painters removing the "Genesis" graffiti.  Genesis was the working name of the Oasis Class ships during the design phase.

I ran a few errands, including stopping by Focus to check out all of our photos and organize in our binder which ones I wanted to purchase.  I also filled out our comment card back in the room.

We had a late lunch at Johnny Rockets.  We had no problem getting a table outside on the Boardwalk.  Lunch was pretty good, but we each cut our burgers in half and ate only half.  We just don't eat as much as a lot of people.

After lunch, we strolled a bit more, then went back to the flowrider for its 3pm conversion from boogie board back to stand-up.  While we were wandering the ship, we kept wondering aloud who would be asked to ride in the Best of the Best contest.  We had a pretty good idea that Chris might be asked.

When we got to the flowrider at 3, we witnessed a very angry father.  He had brought his kid(s) to ride boogie board right at 3pm, only to find out that there would be no more boogie for the rest of the cruise.  I did feel a little bad for him, until he made a bit of a scene, asked to see "who's in charge" and was walked around a corner to continue his discussion.  In Allure's defense, they couldn't control the fact that the port side flowrider had to be disassembled on a schedule, and they had attempted to notify everyone of the modified hours by posting them on the sports deck Friday and Saturday, making announcements Friday and Saturday on the sports deck, and publishing them in the Cruise Compass.

We rode the flowrider from 3 until 5:30, when it was time for the Best of the Best contest.