Quantum of the Seas Day 4

All good things come to an end. Though it was a short holidays, it was a decent length one to kick start after a year of hiatus. 

I had been wondering about the disembarkation procedure. What had been made known to us via the Royal app was that the disembarkation would be at 6am but no what or how. 

Information was provided on Day 3 via hard copy pamphlet and luggage tags were also provided. We could check in the luggage or lug them off the cruise ourselves. The luggage tags are numbered from 1 to 34 and disembarkation starts as early as 7am to 10.15am accordingly to the number on the luggage tag. Given that we only have 1 medium size luggage, we opted to move it ourselves. Easy peasy. 

Auntie S and kids were in the forward of the ship and given number 1 luggage tags. They were scheduled to leave at 7am. We were at the middle of the ship and our luggage tags were numbered 16, scheduled for 8am. 

Bcos it was too early for them, they decided to skip bfast. We didn't bcos I know that we will have hungry morning people. 

It was initially difficult to wake the kids until I reminded them that we are in Singapore and their data plan works. The next moment... So easy...

The windjammer was opened as early as 6am and was crowded when we arrived. Back in the cabin after bfast was a waiting game but nobody complains when there is aircon and gadget. The disembarkation announcement was made over the PA system as well as on Channel 24 on the TV. 

It was our turn shortly after 8am. By then, Auntie S and kids were already home. Disembarkation was easy and clear. There wasn't much of a crowd as well. 

Of course social distancing via the familiar "footprint" labels that we constantly saw throughout the cruise. 

Everything else was just as smooth and we were home before 9am. That marked the end of our cruise holiday. 

While the teenager had complained a fair bit and rolled her eyeballs probably enough to circle the earth, we all had fun. Zaky loves the boogie boarding. Lil Shauna enjoyed a few of the activities and we all had a great time with the bumper car. I particularly enjoyed the time with the kids. It had been so long. It is a pity that Daddy Lim can't join us this time. 

In my opinion, the cruise was particularly good bcos of the 50% capacity such that the line for the the activities were much reasonable. I think we must make full use of this privilege such that I jioed Auntie S to book the cruise again during the June holidays. Hohoho. 

Ya, cruise booked already. We are fast hands, fast legs. This time, Popo will not be tagging along. She finds the casino too tiny and would rather go to her Genting Dream cruise instead and had already planned on in end April. This time, we also jioed Auntie J and kids. Hoho. Daddy Lim isn't sure if he would be able to make it for the cruise and will see how his work schedule goes. 

This time, we will make sure to arrive as early as possible and book as many bumper car sessions as possible. Hoho. Oh, we need to stay away from late night performances too; we are not as strong as what we think we are. 

We are lao jiaos already and very much looking forward to June 21. Hoho.

Mummy Lim

Quantum of the Seas Day 3

C said that she wanted to jog on day 3 morning. 

While jogging is not my thing, I was glad to have companion. In fact, I had the whole gang with me. The girls ran ahead followed by the boys, then me. Auntie S' poor knees don't agree with jogging and she took on the all important sweeper role. Soon, I caught up with the boys, who decided that they would rest on the beach chair instead after 2 rounds. 

The map says that one round of track = 553m. I don't think so. The girls stopped after what they say was 5 rounds. I should have ran 6 and only took 18+mins. I can't have ran 3+km in 18+mins. My Garmin best, it recorded 4.5km and exclaimed that it is the fastest ever recorded run that I have. Lol. 

Obviously GPS and Garmin don't work very well in the middle of the sea. 

I bet it was about 2.5km at most. With that little burnt, I made the kids do HIIT with me. Hoho. Only C tried to entertain me, Lil Shauna hates HIIT and didn't do much. Zaky was worse. He was just playing dead on the beach chair. Lol. 

We didn't complete the session, probably just 2/3 of the 30 mins session bcos the kids were whinning too much. What's next was bfast and bfast obviously was a better option. 

Remembered that we couldn't rebook one of the shows? We were told by the staff that we could approach the guest service to see if they could help. While we still didn't get slots for the show, the staff managed to help us book ONE precious bumper car slot for ONE person on day 3 morning. We didn't share this with the kids bcos it sounded like the perfect trigger for murder plot. 

Anyway, we wanted to do the boogie board after bfast only to realise that the q was bloody long under the freaking hot sun. The kids agreed to go for a dip instead and after some game, Zaky snagged the single slot for the bumper car. At the door, we found out that people can still go for bumper car even if they didn't manage to make a reservation; they just have to q. With that, we got the whole gang to do the bumper car again. The q was definitely longer than the 1st day but moved quickly.

Nobody take photo for me, I take myself. Hoho. 

The boogie board q was much manageable after that. The boys went several times until the q started lengthening and we decided that it was time for lunch. As a result, lunch was later than usual. 

In the afternoon, we took part on some guess the lyrics activities and we realised how bad we all are except for Lil Shauna. 

Of the 20 songs, we made 8 guesses and 7 were by her. We got 歌神! The rest of us just looked at the screen blankly. Only when the answers were revealed and the songs played, we went "ahhhh" and "orhhhh" and happily sang along. Lol. 

By Day 3, we were a lot more tired and spent more time resting in the cabin. Many of our plans were also not going according to plan, like the dancing classes. The kids were probably pleased with that. There were line dancing, morning fitness dance, k pop music dance and we did NONE of those. I was adamant about the last pop music dance at 4pm and make sure that nothing goes in my way to attend that session. Hoho. 

None of the kids were keen. Only Zaky hold true to his words and went to the pop music dance class with the 2 aunties. Haha. It was an easy dance to 2 songs but much enjoyable. In return for his companion, I brought him to boogie board right after that and it was the last opportunity given that the session closed at 5.30pm. 

There was a Q and a fairly long wait. Zaky was the last few in the Q and they opened up the entire surf pool. We waited for about 45 mins before his turn but he thinks that it was totally worth it. Fyi, while he was waiting in the sun for his turn, so did yours truly in the no shade, direct sunlight spectator area. I can literally feel sweat rolling off my back and wrapped myself in beach towels. 

Zaky was exhausted after boogie board and didn't even want to swim with T. We heard that Auntie S donned her biniki *cat whistles*. We retreated to the room and didn't have dinner with them too bcos we were still full from lunch. In the end, dinner was at the complimentary pizza and snack place. 

We took a long break after dinner. The next and last program was a performance at 10pm. But the long day of activities, sun and sea wasn't helping. Zaky fell asleep at 8+pm and asked me to wake him up for the performance. Lil Shauna outright declared at 9+pm that she wanted to skip the performance and go to bed. Lol. 

The kids on the other side weren't doing any much better. In the end, we decided that we should just skip the show and go to bed. Soon after, the kids were both in lala land and I headed down to the casino to look for Popo. She had spent more time in the casino than anywhere else on the cruise. Lol. 

I had thought that she would be spending the last hours in the casino but declared that the limited jackpot machines were no fun, which basically means that she wasn't winning. She too decided that she would turn in for the night. 好吧, let's all sleep. 

Good night to the last night on cruise. 

Mummy Lim

Quantum of the Seas Day 2

There is a gym on the cruise but the earliest appointment starts at 8am and that clashes with bfast. I did my HIIT on the open deck instead. I am not the only healthy nut but the deck was busy with people doing their morning run. 

Good morning Tuesday!

Hello Mr Sun!

The kids were still sleeping when I was back. It was very difficult to wake sleepy heads. 

The plan was to have bfast at 8am and then the boogie boarding at 9am. We went for boogie boarding a few times on day 2 and 3 that I lost track of the actual number of times. We all tried except for Auntie S bcos she didn't want to get "wash away" unglamorously.

I got do ok, just that nobody take my photo. I do have videos of me screaming bloody murder, which isn't the wisest thing to do bcos I took 2 gigantic gulps of water when I got washed away. Oh ya, it is chlorine water and not sea water like the last cruise. 

The boys love this and they have learnt the different patterns during the few short sessions - kneeling, one foot up, sitting down. I did manage to kneel eventually but got washed off. The 1st time was when I took the gigantic gulps and the 2nd, I whacked my head on the cushion. While I don't think I have a concussion, I had a sore neck muscle after that. Old already ah. 

In between the boogie board sessions were swimming and more rock climbing. 

Long time ago during the Phuket holidays, I had a pact with Auntie S that we would wear bikini on the next beach holiday. Hoho. The beach holiday didn't come but the cruise swimming pool holiday did. We did both wore out bikini to parade the swimming pool but at didn't time. Hahaha. Lil Shauna just rolled eyes at me. Her poor eyes must be very tired for the constant rolling. 

Other than the boogie board, the highlight of the day must be the magic show. My kids never grew out of magic shows. While we lament that there aren't much stuff to do after dinner (except for another swim), we were all tired after dinner. The dinner took exceptionally long bcos of the crowd and we were all tired by the end of it. 

Good night cruise. 

Mummy Lim