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Royal Voyage 2015: Goodbye Dubai & Welcome Home

Most of the time I end my vacation posts with the last full day of our trip. It’s usually for the best as our last day is usually all just getting on an airplane and flying back home. And so far that’s exactly what’s happening today. We got up at 6AM at the beautiful Sofitel Jerimiah, where I took a glorious shower before we got back into the same BMW 7 series that picked us up at the cruise terminal a few days prior. I’m not joking easily in my top five best showers ever.  The drive in was uneventful and we boarded our plane to London and then off to LAX. However, that’s where the recap of today will end. Instead this is just a round-up post. A way to to finish off the trip and announce that all of the photos from our trip have now been posted. 

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Royal Voyage 2015 Day 17: Ride Camel, Eat Camel

Here we go. The time has come. Our last stop on the Royal Voyage, Dubai. We had a horrible night sleep last night in anticipation for getting off the Explorer of the Seas and making our way for three nights in Dubai. We woke up at 6AM in anticipation of leaving the boat anywhere between 7:30 & 8AM. We did self carry, which means we were in charge of our own luggage. The departure was delayed a bit so we watched The Goldbergs (never had seen that before) before getting off the boat at a little before 8:30AM. 

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Royal Voyage 2015 Day 14, 15 & 16: Massage Over Bingo

I’m trying to figure out how to cleverly continue to talk about our days at-sea. In all honesty not much as changed on our second half of the six days at-sea. Like the days before it we woke up, Jenn busied herself with trying to get the Royal Caribbean internet to first connect and then at some point load a website. I promise you I haven’t had this bad of internet since we first got AOL in the early 90’s. It’s dreadful. 

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Royal Voyage Day 11, 12 & 13: On the Daily

Today began our first of six straight days of life at-sea. Depending on what day you asked us before we embarked on this journey, often times Jenn and I would comment that these six days were what we were most excited for on this trip. After a crazy year, lounging around, and doing next to nothing was exactly what the doctor ordered.

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