Day 1 - Miami
Our day started off bright and early, well actually it wasn't even bright outside yet, so I'll just say early. The weeks leading up to vacation were about the norm - crazy as all get out. Two nights before we left, I realized that when we bought our plane tickets, we only had a 20 or 30 minute layover in Atlanta. I was stressing over the thought of missing our connection and then missing our sailing time in Miami. So I spent some quality time on the phone with the airline. Ended up, there was an earlier flight from out of Omaha to Atlanta that morning but we would have to wait until 3 hours prior to the flight leaving to see if we could switch flights. So, I set the alarm for 2am, got up, called the airline and lucky for us, there were still seats available. We got out of
Our trip to Miami was pretty uneventful. I slept most of the way there. When we arrived in Miami, we flagged a cab and headed to the port. There were people everywhere and it was looking like shear madness when we arrived to check in for our cruise. But Ryan and I got super lucky. In the week prior to the cruise, a cruise representative called and asked if we wanted to upgrade from our standard balcony room to a suite for a minimal charge - that was a no brainer - sign me up! Well with the room upgrade came priority boarding. So we go to check in for the cruise and they lead us to this private room without a line where we proceed to check in and then we're on the cruise and in our suite in no time while everybody else was still waiting in a super long line. We unfortunately didn't take any pictures of our room or even the ship for that matter. But having a suite was really nice - especially if you are someone like me who likes to relax in peace and quiet instead of in the craziness of drunken people on the main decks. Our upgraded room came with a larger balcony which was perfect!
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| Excited for vacation! |
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| Sailing out into....some rain... Oh well, nothing could rain on my parade at this point! |
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| A look back as we said goodbye to Miami. |
Day 2 - Nassau Bahamas
Our first stop was in the Bahamas. It was bright and sunny - we couldn't have asked for anything else! It felt so good to wake up in the morning, step out on the balcony and not freeze our behinds off! Ryan and I decided to go parasailing in Nassau so when the boat docked, we hightailed it off the boat for dry land.
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| It was super bright outside. |
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| Such clear blue water! |
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| The only picture of us together when we were up parasailing. Apparently is was too bright for me to open my eyes - lol! |
Ryan and I bought a new camera for the trip in anticipation for being in the water. We bought a Nikon waterproof camera which is absolutely awesome. It takes video as well. Below is the first video we captured on the new camera. We didn't have time to try out the camera before we went up, but at least I was able to figure it out in the moment.
This was our second time parasailing. The first time was on our honeymoon. Unfortunately, this time around was less than impressive. We sat front to back instead of side-by-side like we did the first time. This left me feeling like I was getting pulled backwards and had to keep pulling myself up if I wanted to see anything. And also, the boat basically took us in circles this time around. After it was all said and done, Ryan and I decided that we were definitely spoiled by our first parasailing experience because this one did not measure up. Oh well, it's all about the experience. I think what also tainted my view of this parasailing adventure is that they "dip" submerge you in the ocean on your way back into the boat. There were two other couples that went up first and then got their legs wet on their little dips when coming back into the boat. Well, for Ryan and me, I don't know if they wanted to go out with a bang or what but they literally submerged me up to my chest - I'm not a big fan of being wet, so that really wasn't my cup of tea. Oh well.
After we finished, we had to head back to the ship so that I could dry off and change clothes. We then walked to a nearby beach and slept. {I think that Ryan and I were still exhausted from the few weeks leading up to vacation that we were just too tired to enjoy excursions as this point.}
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| What's that? My toenails aren't painted? Oh yeah, tell me about it - I was too busy before we left to accomplish that. |
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| McDonalds- they are everywhere! |
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| Our Carnival fun ship. |
From our balcony, we watched as they harvested {? mined?} sand from the ocean bottom.
As we pulled out of port and set sail into the great blue ocean, we encountered more rain - with a rainbow this time around.
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| The beginning... |
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| ...and the end. |
This day consisted of a lot of this....
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| Sleeping and resting |
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| Ocean watching and then taking pictures of things that we saw {this is the only thing that we saw all day}. |
Day 4 - St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands
More sunshine! We took a cab ride to Magen's Bay and spent the day in the ocean and got plenty of sun - thank goodness for sunscreen!
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| Magen's Bay |
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| the dead sea? |
After our fun in the sun, we went back into town and walked around some of the shops for a little bit. We ate some chips and salsa and had a couple drinks at this place called Greengos Cantina.
and then went back to the ship. While on the ship, we got to see a beautiful sunset!
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| That's someones personal yacht! It makes me wonder where people make all their money sometimes. It may not look the largest here but that yacht was huge. This picture is taken from our balcony. |
~Ashley
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