We were up in plenty of time for breakfast in the Estrella Dining Room.  After breakfast, we went back to our stateroom to pick up our iPads and found our disembarkation instructions with luggage tags and boarding passes attached on the bed.  So this means that we can put our big luggage out tonight to be handled by the cruise line and airline completely.  We won’t see it again until it is on the baggage carousel in Albuquerque.  We also had instructions with regular luggage tags delivered last night. 

The DNA expert, Gary Koverman, gave his last talk this morning on the company AncestryDNA.  This talk was not as bad as the others I heard him give, but he is not a natural, or even a trained, speaker.  He has trouble finishing his sentences and speaks with lots of starts and stops.  He has shown several charts and video clips at each presentation without giving credit to the creators of them.  The videos have been the only good parts of his talks since the information in them is well organized and explained fully, but my librarian brain can't forgive him for using uncredited works.  

Just before noon, the Captain announced that we have a medical emergency on board.  He increased the speed to the maximum that he can so we will get to Ft. Lauderdale by midnight.  He has permission to disembark only the patient when we arrive.  After that, the gangway will be removed and everyone else must wait until tomorrow at 8 a.m. to get off the ship.  

I went to the Crew Talent Show this afternoon.  I always like to see what the crew can do besides wait on us.  The performers usually seem a bit nervous, but do a good job with their parts.  Today, there were six or seven singers, one pianist, and one hula hooper.  The Cruise Director introduced each one saying the department where they worked.  After each one finished, he interviewed them a little bit, too, asking where they were from, how long they had worked on ships, and what they liked most about their jobs.

Some ships use slightly different carpets in the alleyways on port and starboard on the decks with passenger cabins.  On the Island Princess, the carpet on the starboard side included sets of green dots.   The carpet on the port side was the same except those dots were red.  That made it easy to see which direction to turn out of the elevator or stair lobbies.  On the Sky Princess, the difference in port and starboard carpet was much more subtle -- just a slightly different color in the shadows of the decorative shapes.  I couldn't see the difference without being right up close so I had to remember which sets of elevators gave us a right turn and which sets gave us a left turn when exiting the elevator and heading to our stateroom.    

Our last dinner onboard was at the specialty restaurant Sabatini’s.  We had way too much food, but we tried a little bit of a lot of things — five courses, in total.  The maitre d’ lead the waiters in the song “Funiculi, Funicula” as a way of saying good-bye which had the diners smiling and clapping along.  

We have finished packing and have put our luggage out in the hall.  We have one more time change tonight.