Cruisin'

I am finally taking some time to post pictures of the WONDERFUL honeymoon cruise Brian and I went on back in April. I have never had such a great time, it was definitely the best vacation I've ever had!!! We went on the Royal Caribbean cruise line and would recommend it to anyone. It was a 7 day western caribbean cruise where we visited Jamaica, Grand Caymen, Royal Caribbean's private resort in Labadee, Haiti and Cozumel (this port was cancelled however due to the swine flu outbreak.) Brian and I had such an awesome time we are ready to go cruisin again. He is so much fun to travel and hang with I'll go anywhere with him (yes Brian I will go to Asia with you if you REALLY want to, just find us some nice places there. I don't want to pee in a hole in the ground and things like that - I want modern conveniences!! :)
Here we are waiting for our ship (The Freedom of the Seas - the biggest ship out there right now) to set sail. This is the Port of Miami:


Here we are in Jamaica at the Green Grotto caves. The funnest thing we did in Jamaica though was hike the Dunn River Falls. They are several hundred feet in height and you start down on the beach and climb up holding onto a train of people's hands and getting nice and wet. I don't have any pics but we did buy the DVD of us climbing them - it was a BLAST and a must do for anyone that goes to Jamaica!! Yay mon!

We had some delicious jerk chicken while we were in Jamaica at a little out of the way restaurant, it was soo good!

On the Grand Caymen islands we snorkeled with the sting rays and that was a lot of fun. We didn't have our digital camera with us, just a waterproof, disposable one so no pics of that adventure to post. Fun stuff though and the Caymen is so beautiful!!!

Dinners on the cruise were always a blast! Plan to gain 5-10 lbs off the food they are stuffing you with all the time. We got put on a table with 2 other couples (one from Denmark, the other San Diego) and enjoyed hanging with them every night at the dinner table! We participated in a game called "The Quest" with them and even played on a dodgeball team one afternoon. The name of our team was Team Remi in honor of our main waiter (Remi is there next to me in this pic.)

Here is Patrick (from San Diego) posing with dessert one night - look appetizing anyone??

There were 2 formal dinner nights:

Here is the royal promenade - there were shops all along the promenade as well as parades and entertainment, pretty cool huh?

This was Brian's favorite thing on the cruise - the flowrider where you can surf and boogey board.

I even tried it out. Well slight correction, on the first day there the announcer was looking for volunteers and guess who volunteered me? Brian did. So I was the first one on the ship to try it. Of course I wiped out immediately but oh well, it gave us something to laugh at. (This is the 2nd time I tried it out and did much better.) Along with the flowrider they had an ice skating rink, arcade, kareoke bar, dance club, mini golf, simulated golf, rock climbing wall, pools & hot tubs, basketball court, fitness center, and spa, just to name a few things to keep a person entertained while at sea. :)

In Labadee, Haiti Royal Carribean has their own private resort. There we went down the world's longest zip line over water, it was FUN!

Here is our ship in the background (also taken in Labadee, Haiti.)

Here we are on the front of the ship on our last day there:

Every night we would come back and find our stateroom attendant had left us clean towels in the form of an animal. We had an elephant, a bat, a sting ray and a monkey to name a few.

There was the mandatory test drill they did so we knew what to do in case the ship started sinking or something. Gotta love those stylish life preservers!

So we are already thinking about going again - say April 2010, for our 1 yr anniversary. This time we will try eastern or pacific caribbean. Anyone want to join us?