August 6 - At Sea (Last Day)

 As always happens, our cruise is coming to an end and it's always bittersweet.  We've had a wonderful time and made many new memories.  But as the time to go home draws near, our thoughts turn to home and all that we need to do when we get there and all of our friends and family we need to catch up with.

Today we didn't do much again.  When we got back from breakfast, Gahli and I Komang had our suitcases on the bed ready to be packed.  Sigh ...

We had one last Trivia game where we came in second with 13/15.  But we didn't really need the points as we had enough for our windbreakers.  They had the exchange right after Trivia and we managed to get there before they ran out of the sizes we wanted.  So now, as Michael says, we can go out and advertise for Regent with our jackets.

One last photo of some of the wonderful crew here.

L to R.  This is I Putu (our favorite waiter who gives Michael tomato soup that is half tomato and half tomahto), Rey (assistant restaurant manager who always takes a moment to say hi when he sees us around the ship), Rianna (restaurant manager who goes home in 15 days to her 4-year old son and her smile gets bigger each day), Jeannette (front desk who assigns tables and knew our names from Day 2) and Dwi (assistant waiter extraordinare).  These wonderful people were there when we checked in, except for I Putu, who came running over when he saw I was taking a picture.  We'll miss them all.

 We've been sailing all day through very calm seas towards our disembarkation port of Southampton.  Our flight isn't until 4:40 pm, so we've taken the offer of a short tour on the way to the airport to stop by Winchester to see the town and the Cathedral.  That will still get us to the airport hours ahead of time, where we hope United has a nice Business Class Lounge.

I'll post this now as I need to pack the computer (hoping it doesn't break completely when I have to close it up with the broken hinge).  I'll try to write a final entry after we return home.

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