WAYNO

This lack of promenade thing is the one reason I don't book Odyssey as a first choice. It's a beautiful, gorgeous, wonderful ship, but I just miss the promenade.

We've cruised 7 times in the last 12 months. Prior, we've cruised on an average, 3 or 4 times per year. Does that make us frequent? If so... It's been many years since I've used a travel agent. On an upcoming cruise, airfare was exorbitant and constantly changing. I gave MEI a try. They were quick to respond, but the choices offered to me were few, and more expensive than I had already found. I think I am not the kind of traveler travel agents are interested in. Guess I still don't need a travel agent.

L.A. is nice today. Now the wait for the shuttle.

And reality becomes us...

It is time to head home. We are so anxious for our cruises to finally happen, but in the blink of an eye, it is over. At that time, I am also ready to be in my home. This was a particularly wonderful cruise. We met a couple from this same cruise one year ago, and met a bunch of new friends also. Interesting, there was no handout from the casino for available cruises with our certificate, nor was there anything in Next Cruise. We must do it all online now.

We are getting an early taste of home. It is blustery and downright chilly on deck.

My one and only visit to the Diamond, err, Crown Lounge. There were no lines to get coffee.

This is the last sea day. The weather be a changing...

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In departing Puerto Vallarta last night, a slightly different view of the city as viewed from the Windjammer...

Windjammer for dinner tonight. It was a good choice and I didn't have to get dressed up. Last night at the MDR, they were just not on their game. Drinks were impossible, orders were wrong. And in spite of asking to be done early enough for a 7 o'clock show, we weren't finished til 7:30. The poor guys work so hard, non-stop, I don't know why it doesn't come together better. But minute steaks, grilled fish, pork chops, and fried chicken at the Windjammer tonight made everything worthwhile.

Yep, we walked to Walmart. It is pretty warm and humid. Ended up taking a cab back to the ship. Prices at Walmart here are similar to prices at home. One exception... motorcycles. They had quite a few, all in the 125cc class, at around the thousand dollar figure. Like them or not, in this climate, these little motorcycles work very well for cheap transportation. We're back on the ship. I am looking forward to two very wonderful sea days.

Walmart. Interesting to see them here, while ours have all closed at home.

Brunch time in the Windjammer.

This has been a lazy cruise for us. Slept in til nearly 11AM, only to be reminded I didn't advance my watch. So it's nearly noon. 81 degrees and still gorgeous in Puerto Vallarta. Note the presence of the US Coast Guard in Port.

We did well the first couple of nights in the casino, but it slowed down for us after that. We are Signature. We also received similar gifts while Prime.