Tuesday, July 22 - 5:13 p.m.
Our cruise director has a daily television show each morning on the ship where he reads letters that have been written to him. Most of the letters are stories about love -- how people met, celebrations of anniversaries/honeymoons/etc onboard, and so on -- and he constantly encourages people to send in letters. So we decided to send in a very-slightly modified version of the fairy tale engagement story that we'd posted here to share our story with John. Considering that it was a Carnival photographer that really got our relationship started, it seemed appropriate to let John know what Carnival had done for us.
Despite the fact that we were exhausted and it was a sea day, we decided to wake up around 9 a.m. to watch the show and see if he would read our letter. We started watching at 9:15, but quickly fell back asleep. As luck would have it, Dave woke up about 40 minutes later 30 seconds before John started reading our letter. Quickly waking Julie, we watched him close his show with our letter -- he called it the most original engagement story he'd ever read. As part of the show, he often calls the people who sent the letters in -- and sure enough, he called our room (mostly because I forgot to include Julie's name in the letter, and he was wondering who the princess was). Both Julie and I talked to John for a few minutes, and John told us he'd be sending some things to our room later on. Along with a bottle of champagne and lovely autographed photo of the ship, John sent us a 14-karat solid gold plastic ship on a stick... something I've been anxiously wanting for years. (He actually sent these to us a couple days later, but we figured we'd include them here.) 
When the show ended, we went back to sleep for a bit, waking around lunchtime to go eat, use the pool, and play bingo. We'd made reservations for the supper club on the ship at 6:30 -- 2 hours before our regular dining time -- so around 4:30 we went back to our room to get ready. (The supper club is the only restaurant on the ship that you pay extra for -- it's essentially equivalent to an upscale steakhouse like Mortons.) Once we'd properly dressed -- Julie as the princess that she is and me as a penguin -- we went to the Captain's Cocktail Party (free drinks!) where John once again found us, this time with his camera crew. He shared our story once again and wished us his best.
After the party, we started wandering around the ship having photos taken with various backdrops. We'll decide on the last sea day which ones we want to buy. (We did manage to get someone to take our picture using our own camera at some point that night -- gotta get at least one free shot!)
After dinner in the supper club, we again wandered around for more photos, at which point we noticed that there appeared to be a rainbow outside. Stepping out on deck, we found that not only was there a complete rainbow -- there was a double rainbow. 
We quickly rushed upstairs to the uppermost open deck and used the self-timer to take our own photo -- one which we like more than any others we've taken so far on this cruise. 
After playing a bit in the casino, we went back to the room (where we were wonderfully surprised by a bottle of real champagne -- not the stuff that Carnival uses for its free giveaways -- from Dave's folks... thanks mom and dad!) and bid a fond goodnight to this evening's Towel Princess. 
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