{"id":275,"date":"2008-11-28T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T18:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2008-11-28T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T18:30:07","slug":"vacation-recap-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/28\/vacation-recap-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Recap, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from Part 2<\/a>, or start at Part 1.<\/a><\/p>\n

Wednesday: Fun Day at Sea 2 or Run Day at Sea<\/em><\/p>\n

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Woke up feeling still a little disoriented, and late – it was like 11 am!\u00a0 But, being that it was the\"\"<\/a> last day, and I still hadn’t gotten up to the top deck to run, I drug my mexican buffet butt up there and ran 5 miles.\u00a0 It was soooo awesome.\u00a0 I didn’t want to stop but it was getting hot (I actually got a tinge of a sunburn that day just from the time running) and I had other stuff to do!\u00a0 I showered and changed and grabbed just a bit of lunch (I ate about half of my trademark GIANT SALAD, and a few bites from the buffet including a really yummy piece of spicy fried chicken, can’t remember the last time I had that…), and headed to the art auction.<\/p>\n

Zliten had met up with Stephen (work person) and his wife and 2 of their kids, and they were drin\"\"<\/a>king long island ice teas (the adults, not the kids) and Stephen was being unruly and disruptive and inappropriate just like normal!\u00a0 It was good fun.\u00a0 We actually won 2 pieces of art in the auction (yay) and we found one we were interested in but would check out later.\u00a0 We left, continued to have a few drinks, got ourselves a snack (pizza for me), and continued to enjoy the wonderful wonderful weather and our last day.<\/p>\n

We changed for dinner (I had considered not changing because I was wearing dinner\"\"<\/a> appropriate wear already but dangit I had more clothes to wear, since I had packed enough for 2 weeks), and headed down and had a really good one – delicious crab cake, asparagus vichyssoise, and an Indian vegetarian dinner which was – NUMMMY.\u00a0 So have to try out some Austin Indian places.\u00a0 Had the trademark baked alaska for desert, and snuck out before the singing and dancing, but not before a picture of our headwaiter and his assistant.<\/p>\n

Since it had to be done, we went to the room and packed hastily.\u00a0 It’s all going in the laundry, \"\"<\/a>so we pretty much shoved everything wherever it would go, which strangely enough – we ended up with some space in the luggage.\u00a0 Then we went through all the pictures they took and picked out what we wanted, and damn, those things are expensive!\u00a0 22 bucks!\u00a0 At least we won’t have to get a nice picture done for a while.\u00a0 Then, the art auction place where we picked the two pictures we wanted from our raffle win, and actually purchased another.\u00a0 Yay for more art.\u00a0 Next on the list was the hot tub for one mor\"\"<\/a>e dip, but sadly one was cold, one was full, and the other two were closed, so we packed the suits, put on real clothes and left the suitcases to be taken.<\/p>\n

We then headed out for the casino and I turned 10 into 30 this time – except I kept playing the stupid Taxi game and it turned back into 10.\u00a0 We then took the 10 and played video poker for a while.\u00a0 It was actually a very fun casino night, we played for hours and hours and only lost 15 bucks!\u00a0 One more late night meal – because we needed more food, of course, it had been a few hours – so we got burgers, and then headed down to the room and passed out.<\/p>\n

Thursday: Home, home on the Range…or GET THE HELL OFF THE BOAT YOU GLUTTONS!!!<\/em>
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Ugh…it’s 7 am, why am I awake?\u00a0 I was just falling asleep 5 hours ago…oh wait, yeah, last day of the cruise.\u00a0 Boooooooo!\u00a0 Actually, I am very, very, very ready to be home and in my own bed and couch, but boooo for vacation being over.\u00a0 We got ready, made a last check of the room to make sure we had all our stuff, and said goodbye to the cabin and headed out (yes, I talk to things…).\u00a0 Had a breakfast of a pancake, bacon, potatoes, and fruit, and wait for them to call us to get off the boat.\u00a0 And waited…and waited.\u00a0 At least I was really into my book.\u00a0 I’m pretty proud I got halfway through it and I’m hooked, so I WILL finish the damn thing (note: haven’t touched it since I’v\"\"<\/a>e been home, bah internets).<\/p>\n

We finally get called shortly before 10, we head off the boat and into customs.\u00a0 We hit the slowest fucking line imaginable, and all the other lines were pretty much EMPTY by the time we got through it.\u00a0 I guess the guy was just chatty, because he was that way with us.\u00a0 We got through that shortly after 11.\u00a0 To his credit he did comment on my passport pic not looking like me…so it wasn’t all bad.\u00a0 Then one more line for the shuttle to parking, and we were on our way home around 11:30.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The trip was both nice (we took a different route and once we got through Houston it was a straight, no trafficky road that never changed the whole way) and rough (we were both tired, I kept nodding off and Zliten said he did once too, while driving…yikes!).\u00a0 I offered to drive but I needed a nap first, and he needed someone awake to help him stay awake, so he drove the whole time and I stayed MOSTLY awake.\u00a0 We saw lots more barbeque, and a lot of hay (which was greeted with “hey HEY hey hey” in my delirious state).\u00a0 Finally, around 3:15, we pulled into Austin, picked up some dinner (hey there, BBQ, for reals) and headed home.\u00a0 We left everything in the car except the food, and pretty much vegged on the couch and napped and relaxed all day.<\/p>\n

Awesome vacation, can’t wait for the next.\u00a0 Is it time yet?<\/p>\n

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Continued from Part 2, or start at Part 1. Wednesday: Fun Day at Sea 2 or Run Day at Sea Woke up feeling still a little disoriented, and late – it was like 11 am!\u00a0 But, being that it was the last day, and I still hadn’t gotten up to the top deck to run, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUhDu-4r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}