Carnival Dream - Return to Galveston

- Fri/Sat/Sun, 10-12 June 2022

Woke to potty about 5:30am & took a peek out the balcony door.  Gorgeous sunrise!!!!  

Rearranged my menagerie & admired our cabin steward's adorable handiwork!!!

Spent the day relaxing.  Ate burritos for lunch.  That was pretty good & not much of a line.  Went to talk to guest services to get envelopes for tips & find out how they would handle our excursion refunds.  Found out they will mail us a check.  Okay.  That's better than fighting the line for a refund on the ship.  Back to the cabin to put away the snorkle gear & while the day away.  Read a lot & worked on computer.  Kept an eye out for anything to see from the balcony.  Can't believe how smooth the ocean is.  And so so very blue.

Down to our favorite bar at the non smoking casino annex.  Got a Carnival Cosmos in a rock glass.  Believe this is my favorite drink of this cruise.  

Went to Sam's Piano bar to meet Frank Anis & listen to his classic guitar.  He's quite talented.    Terry showed up about 5:45pm.  We chatted a few minutes then went for another drink & head to dinner.

Enjoyed the dancing again tonight.  It was just the 6 of us.  Very pleasant meal.

Went to the show about 80's music.  Fun evening & very lively.

Back to the cabin & watched I Care A Lot.  Creepy movie!!  Need to tell Bill & Carol that we finally watched it!  Loved my hanging monkey!!!

Beautiful day at sea!  Packed & read & relaxed.  Got burgers again for lunch.  They are probably the best thing to eat on the ship!  George skipped the bun & I had a beer too.  His back had been hurting & he was taking Motrin, so skipping the beer.  

Went to listen to Frank again.  Got a picture of him & Terry.  He enjoyed giving us a history lesson about guitars also.  Very interesting.  Nice addition to this cruise.

Our last meal was quite nice.  Bret & Denise joined us again.  They had all left when they did the parade with the Baked Alaska.  Shame they missed it.  Got a chance to clap for them.  Retvik showed up as we were leaving the dining room, so we could give him his tip & I got a picture of him with George.  He was the highlight of the trip.

On to the Theater for the last show.  High energy Hollywood show case.  The Rock band performed.  They were very good.  The South African singer was the best.   

Combined our complete menagerie!  Great fun!  George had to hold up the monkey - no place to hang him there in the corner.

Picked up our picture.  It turned out pretty good!  So completed our Carnival Dream Cruise.  It was an easy debarkation.  Had to be out of the cabin by 8:30am, so up planned to be up at 6:30am.  Unfortunately the ship started to shudder about 5am, so up a few minutes later.  But upstairs for a leisurely breakfast.  Even managed omelets.  Great way to end up!  We went down the hall & waited in front of the forward elevators until they called for Muster Station C3, then started trying to go down.  Ended up going up to go down, but got off the elevator just as they called for Station E.  Perfect.  Walked straight off the ship, in the terminal, they were using visual face id if you had a passport, so we were just walked straight through.  No other stop.  Huge Huge line for the shuttles, so George left me at the hotel pick up spot.  That was a bad decision, when he tried to get back to me, they wouldn't let him turn in that row.  He had to circle back around.  Took about an hour +, but I was in the shade, so not too bad.  Soon we were on our way.  Made a quick stop at the Costco in Humble.  Bought new electric tooth brushes.  They were on sale - saved $100!!!  Also filled up our wine cabinet.  Then on home with no problems.  Great little mini vacation!!!!