Ok, day 7, our last full day on the ship and we were at sea the entire day. Firstly I have to go back to day 6 because a lot of the goings on stem from what happened the day before. On day 6, around 11:00 AM we realized that we were out of clean clothes, specifically our undergarments. On our last cruise you had the option to pay for your clothes to be laundered or you could use the ship's public laundry areas to do it yourself. After setting out to do our laundry we found, to our dismay, that NCL did not offer public laundry. So, we had no choice but to pay them to do our laundry. The charges depended on what type of clothing and how many of that article of clothing you wanted laundered, so we decided to just get our garments cleaned (we were very reluctant to do this, as most LDS people can understand) to keep the cost as low as possible.
Now, when I talked to the front desk asking about public laundry I was told they could have our laundry done by 6 PM that day. This was good because we were literally wearing our last clean pairs. When I started filling out the form I noticed that there were 2 services offered: Regular (collected before 9 AM and returned before 6 PM the next evening) and Express (collected before 9 AM and return before 6 PM that night). The Express charge was an extra 50% of the total. I wasn't happy about this, but again we were forced to go with it.
So, 6 PM that night rolled around and nothing was delivered. I wasn't too upset at this point, all I cared about was that we had them before the next morning. Well, when we woke up the next morning we still didn't have our laundry. I figured since our laundry wasn't collected before 9 AM the previous day that our "express" service would have our laundry here by 6 PM the current day. Lame.
So we put off showering and got some breakfast but after that we decided to go ahead and shower and wear robes until our laundry arrived. Well, luckily for us all we had planned to do that afternoon was watch movies. We were planning on seeing Kung Fu Panda in the cinema (btw the ship had a movie channel that played on our little room TV's and they also broadcast that channel in the cinema) but the cinema had a towel folding demo going on at that time so we would've had to watch the movie in our stateroom anyway.
So anyway, long story short we had to wait until 6 PM to have our laundry delivered so we could get dressed. When I checked our room charges later on I saw that they didn't charge us the express fee, which kinda made me feel better.
Ok, so the big show of the day in the theater was called Cirque Pacific. It was performed by the same singer/dancer team that did the other shows but they were also joined by the China Stars Acrobat Team. Again, the singer/dancers were ok, and the China Starts were absolutely amazing. If I saw the stuff they were doing on TV I would scream FAKE/Special FX! but when they were doing it in front of my very eyes all I could do was gawk and awe. At the end of the show they brought up what seemed like half of the entire crew from each of the different departments on the ship and gave a grand farewell since the cruise was coming to an end. I'll admit that this sudden realization of the end of my vacation stung a bit.
Now, as you recall a few nights ago we saw a group called Second City which did short skits and improv routines. They actually had other performances after that but they were 100% improv so weren't inclined to go seem them. However, they did have one more performance that night that was advertised as "adults only" and do not attend if you are offended by suggestive humor. We decided we didn't want to miss this one. So, it was basically another improv show but the actors could say whatever they wanted. And they did. At the end of the day though, it was still improv which in my opinion is hit or miss. But there were still a few moments when I laughed pretty hard. It was just kinda awkward since, up until that point, all the entertainment we had seen was pretty family-friendly. Also, oftentimes it seemed like they would throw some extreme profanity in there just because they could.
Well, that's about it. After we got back from the show we packed our bags and placed them outside our room for pickup. The next morning we got a quick buffet breakfast and waited in our room until it was our turn to disembark. We took a shuttle to the airport, had some Panda-style Chinese food from the terminal food court, took a plane home and our vacation was officially over :(
So, who's coming with us in 2 years???
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