Warming up a bit today.

We have had quite a cold spell lately.  Nothing compared to the north, but 40s at night and high of low 60s during the day.  Finally yesterday it hit upper 70s in the afternoon, and I was able to swim at the Cove pool.  I had a nice time working with four musicians, coaching them and critiquing, at a friend's house before eating a packed and planned lunch then swimming.  In the evening we had Barb and Ed over for the fantastic crocked pot corned beef dinner because Jonathan and Susan were sick. Dinner exceeded everybody's expectations.  Wow.

Of course, the meat tasted quite salty, and as I predicted, I am up a pound and a half today to 286.5.  I sort of expected it, but I will admit that it was depressing to see.

The antidote is to stay on track and be rewarded with a nice drop tomorrow.

Meanwhile here are the last of the cruise pictures, started off with a few pictures from last night.

Mark is using his new electric corkscrew that Evey sent him for his birthday..  Worked like a charm.

Sailing in to St. Maarten or two days, but we didn't arrive until 3 p.m.

Meanwhile, we had almost a whole day at sea and went to another lecture in this series.

Enjoyed some time relaxing on the balcony.

Saw four ships in the distance as we came in to Phillipsburg, St. Maarten.  The big ship on the left is  Oasis of the Seas, and we docked directly to her left, sharing a dock. We were the only ones left the next day when we  left.

Enjoying a specialty coffee and listening to the solo guitarist in Cafe  al Bacio as we finished docking.

Enjoying the glider chairs outside on deck five as the final docking procedures were made.  Then we were among the first off the ship to start our little overnight excursion.

We had no trouble getting a cab, and we were in cabin 21 at Club Orient.

The cabin had a full kitchen!

View from our porch. Very easy walk to the beach, but it was so windy out there that we felt like we were being sand blasted.

Instead we read our books on the lounge chairs on our patio.

Nice artwork on the walls of the cabin.

Loved the cork clock!

This is the first hermit crab that I ever saw in the wild.  We had dinner at the big sit down restaurant at Club O at night, a full day of swimming and enjoying the beach the next day and lunch at the Perch Bar on the beach before taking a cab back to the ship.

Nap time on deck 5.

Sailing away from St. Maarten, but we'll be back next year.

Interesting weird piece of art on the ship.

Glass bowl on display that was blown at the Corning show on deck 15.

The final two sea days were calm and warm, so we finally were able to walk out on deck.

At 3 p.m. we went to the Captain's Club High Tea.  The string duo  entertained us.

One of the many desserts served at tea.

Another free cocktail at the Captain's Club cocktail party.

Introducing our new captain.  The previous one left to go to NYC and be announced as the future captain of the brand new ship, Edge.

Staff Captain (second in command) gave a great talk about the ship and navigation.

Another nap in the Persian Gardens.

March 12 was our last night on board and Mark's birthday.  We celebrated with dinner at the specialty restaurant, Tuscan Grille.

Evey arranged to have a cake delivered after dinner!

Early in the morning, sailing back in to Fort Lauderdale.