we're ba-aaaack...
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swingchickieand i feel like someone slapped my ass right back into reality. this morning was cold and rainy, the exact opposite of the 80-degrees-and-sunny weather we'd had for the last week on the ship... i looked up at one point, and jack was forlornly peering out the window, pining "why is it so cold? and where is a waiter with a pina colada for me?" poor guy. he's taking it hard. :)
i think the hardest thing for me to readjust to will be the lack of naps. i'm dragging today. this was my day on friday, a full day at sea:
9:00am - wake up and head to deck 11 for breakfast
9:30am - grab 2 lounge chairs by the adults-only pool and read
11:30am - nap
12:00 - lunch
12:30 - pina colada and more reading
3:00 - nap
4:00 - jack wakes me up from my nap so we can go back to our cabin and nap
yeah. it's hard to be back in the real world. and will someone tell the world to stop tilting? i haven't gotten my "land legs" back, my equilibrium is still off.
i won't bore everyone with a play-by-play of every single thing we did on our trip...
here are some shots of the ship... it was enormous, really beautiful, and laid out really well so it was easy to find everything.
the ship (taken from the dock in cozumel)
the promenade - this was a long area in the middle of the ship filled with shops, an irish pub, a wine bar and a combo coffee shop/ben & jerry's. several nights they had themed parades that went down the center. in the second photo you can see part of the big 3-story sculpture full of sparkly stuff. :)
the solarium, an adults-only pool
the main pool (this was taken at 7am on our first full day, which is why it's not packed to the gills yet)
light-up staircase!!! eeeeeeee, want!!!!!
the theater - we saw a broadway-revue-type show that wasn't bad.
every night when we came back to our cabin after dinner, our room steward had left us fresh towels folded in the shape of different animals:
dog reading our Cruise Compass (daily newsletter)
this was supposed to be a monkey, but to me it looked like a giant vagina. we left it up there just so i could be like "oops, i bonked my head into the vagina again."
the entertainment on the ship was good, we actually stayed awake after dinner on this vacation and did stuff! one of the best things was The Quest, which i have no photos of... it's an adults-only "scavenger hunt" held in one of the theaters where they break the entire audience into teams and you have to immediately produce stuff right there in the room. i laughed my ass off. it progressed from "which teams can show me a business card?" to "show me a set of false teeth" to "bring me a pair of men's pants" (one guy on another team whipped his pants off, but accidentally took his boxers off with them... needless to say, there was a lot of humor when all the guys who'd given their pants had to come down out of their seats to get their pants back.) after that was supposed to be a miami-syle DJ party around one of the pools, but the ship was being tossed and turned with 40mph winds that were literally blowing the water out of the pool (it was pretty cool, jack and i went up there to get blown around)... so instead they moved it to one of the other clubs.
oh, and on one of the early nights they did "rock band a-rokie", karaoke with a live band backing you up. their selection was really limited, but i found "i will survive" and sang it after i chugged down a drink.
we hit 2 ports, belize and cozumel. i won't get into belize, because jack and i stayed on the ship to get spa treatments and i ended the day beyond angry at the spa staff for basically cheating me out of $200. cozumel, however, was really fun -- we had signed up for a mexican cooking class as our shore excursion, and it was a hoot. the free margaritas were flowing a little too freely though, and i got pretty crocked which is not like me at all... so here are the photos i took while i was still lucid:
mexican drugstores! where you can get all of your diet pills, anabolics, and viagra!
the cooking class
our instructor, luis... he looked like a 12-year-old mexican justin timberlake but supposedly has been teaching the class for 7 years.
we all did a toast with tequila shots... this was after i'd already had 2 margaritas. oof.
appetizer: homemade corn tortilla with chorizo, potatoes, refried beans, cheese, lettuce, and sour cream
dessert: a stack of homemade sugar cookies and rice pudding, with strawberry sauce
entree: grouper in banana leaves
smile!
staggering back to the ship -- our ship next to the celebrity constellation
i read almost 2 full books during our pina-colada-and-pool time during the week. i finished the motley crue autobography (really, really good book!), and when i switched to my new one, jack and i got a lot of comments and laughs when people saw us reading next to each other:
that's pretty much it... we ate, we slept, we had a few drinks, and we're back. and now i'm trying to catch up on everyone's LJ posts!
i think the hardest thing for me to readjust to will be the lack of naps. i'm dragging today. this was my day on friday, a full day at sea:
9:00am - wake up and head to deck 11 for breakfast
9:30am - grab 2 lounge chairs by the adults-only pool and read
11:30am - nap
12:00 - lunch
12:30 - pina colada and more reading
3:00 - nap
4:00 - jack wakes me up from my nap so we can go back to our cabin and nap
yeah. it's hard to be back in the real world. and will someone tell the world to stop tilting? i haven't gotten my "land legs" back, my equilibrium is still off.
i won't bore everyone with a play-by-play of every single thing we did on our trip...
here are some shots of the ship... it was enormous, really beautiful, and laid out really well so it was easy to find everything.
the ship (taken from the dock in cozumel)
the promenade - this was a long area in the middle of the ship filled with shops, an irish pub, a wine bar and a combo coffee shop/ben & jerry's. several nights they had themed parades that went down the center. in the second photo you can see part of the big 3-story sculpture full of sparkly stuff. :)
the solarium, an adults-only pool
the main pool (this was taken at 7am on our first full day, which is why it's not packed to the gills yet)
light-up staircase!!! eeeeeeee, want!!!!!
the theater - we saw a broadway-revue-type show that wasn't bad.
every night when we came back to our cabin after dinner, our room steward had left us fresh towels folded in the shape of different animals:
dog reading our Cruise Compass (daily newsletter)
this was supposed to be a monkey, but to me it looked like a giant vagina. we left it up there just so i could be like "oops, i bonked my head into the vagina again."
the entertainment on the ship was good, we actually stayed awake after dinner on this vacation and did stuff! one of the best things was The Quest, which i have no photos of... it's an adults-only "scavenger hunt" held in one of the theaters where they break the entire audience into teams and you have to immediately produce stuff right there in the room. i laughed my ass off. it progressed from "which teams can show me a business card?" to "show me a set of false teeth" to "bring me a pair of men's pants" (one guy on another team whipped his pants off, but accidentally took his boxers off with them... needless to say, there was a lot of humor when all the guys who'd given their pants had to come down out of their seats to get their pants back.) after that was supposed to be a miami-syle DJ party around one of the pools, but the ship was being tossed and turned with 40mph winds that were literally blowing the water out of the pool (it was pretty cool, jack and i went up there to get blown around)... so instead they moved it to one of the other clubs.
oh, and on one of the early nights they did "rock band a-rokie", karaoke with a live band backing you up. their selection was really limited, but i found "i will survive" and sang it after i chugged down a drink.
we hit 2 ports, belize and cozumel. i won't get into belize, because jack and i stayed on the ship to get spa treatments and i ended the day beyond angry at the spa staff for basically cheating me out of $200. cozumel, however, was really fun -- we had signed up for a mexican cooking class as our shore excursion, and it was a hoot. the free margaritas were flowing a little too freely though, and i got pretty crocked which is not like me at all... so here are the photos i took while i was still lucid:
mexican drugstores! where you can get all of your diet pills, anabolics, and viagra!
the cooking class
our instructor, luis... he looked like a 12-year-old mexican justin timberlake but supposedly has been teaching the class for 7 years.
we all did a toast with tequila shots... this was after i'd already had 2 margaritas. oof.
appetizer: homemade corn tortilla with chorizo, potatoes, refried beans, cheese, lettuce, and sour cream
dessert: a stack of homemade sugar cookies and rice pudding, with strawberry sauce
entree: grouper in banana leaves
smile!
staggering back to the ship -- our ship next to the celebrity constellation
i read almost 2 full books during our pina-colada-and-pool time during the week. i finished the motley crue autobography (really, really good book!), and when i switched to my new one, jack and i got a lot of comments and laughs when people saw us reading next to each other:
that's pretty much it... we ate, we slept, we had a few drinks, and we're back. and now i'm trying to catch up on everyone's LJ posts!
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Date: 2009-03-30 03:01 am (UTC)Can't wait to hear more about it, and to plan for the next one... which we are coming along on, by cracky!
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Date: 2009-03-30 10:15 am (UTC)i know, when jack and i first saw the promenade i was like, "i feel like i'm in the king of prussia mall". it was huge.