Our final day is a full day at sea. The ship has been hauling a$$ all night based on the rocking that lulled us to sleep. We awoke refreshed and ready to grab breakfast and hit the spa. I headed up to the spa for my 10 am appointment only to be told that I was an hour early. The ship had set the clocks back an hour over night but since we hadn’t actually crossed a time zone yet, my iPhone didn’t pick up on it so my Apple watch was an hour fast. It would remain so until about 3 in the afternoon when we actually crossed whatever invisible line marked Finland time from Germany time.
So I relaxed on deck with my book for a while and showed up at their version of 10am for a massage, body scrub, body mask, facial and steam shower. 90 minutes of relaxing bliss. Frank had a massage and facial appointment not long after mine and appeared an hour later looking calm and smelling vaguely of curry. I, on the other hand, smelled vaguely of pine trees.
Our morning thus spent pampering, we headed for lunch and enjoyed one of the last of our multi-course, full bottle of wine extravaganzas. This was followed by more book time and a nap. Then it was time to start packing, play cards and dress for dinner. We ha
d our last dinner with the table and the last of our wine package happened to be a bottle of champagne which was enjoyed by all. I said good bye to “my” waiter who took such good care of me this week. We sat and listened to music for a little while longer before heading off to an early bed. This relaxing stuff is exhausting! It certainly wasn’t the 8,371 steps that wore us out!
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