DAY AT SEA

Not many beach goers as the Emerald Princess sailed from Port Everglades. We arrived at the pier dry and were unloaded under cover. Not so good for one of our bags. Had a few damp items. The usual muster - safety drill and then the time was ours. The welcome show was great. Singers and dancers and a comedian, who we will see again.

Sunshine most of today, but dry and warm. Enjoyed the big screen this morning as we watched "Leap Year", then sorta - part time watched "How to Train a Dragon". Puzzle books, games and books to read are with us at all times. Walked part of the ship today, but still have some to go.

Gotta go do my nothing now - so later

RAIN RAIN - GO AWAY

Come again in 11 days........

Well, raining this morning and we are to get on the ship about noon. They tell us Nicole is maybe coming along. All it will do to us is change our route. We would like for it to stop just long enough for us to get on board and then we don't care. Would like to be dry and have dry luggage....

But you know us - whatever, we will have fun.......

ADVENTURE #1

Arrived in Florida to sunshine.

We are staying at the same LaQuinta that we stayed at in April, 2008. We arrived in rain that year and were not able to explore the shopping center around the corner.

Well, this time we were going to go find a place to eat. Guess what? RAIN.
Stopped after a bit and we took off walking. Almost made it dry. Ate at TGI Fridays and came out to RAIN. We were already a little wet, so took off. Walking on a sidewalk next to road and got really close to getting splashed.

Back in the room and fighting over what to watch on TV. Since there is only one, we are having trouble finding something we will both watch. If you leave the room, the TV might be on a different channel when you come back.

That's it for now and maybe tomorrow there will be a pic to post.

HERE WE GOOOOO

Drove to Austin yesterday stopping in Abilene for breakfast and then walked across street last night to Luby's. Watched Packers & Bears and "watched" Rangers on computer.

This morning we are flying out of Austin for "Hollywood". Florida that is. Just heard on news that an armed man is on UT campus.

Well, not much happening yet, so stay tuned.

later

AND AGAIN - IT'S OVER

On Friday afternoon before we got off the ship on Saturday morning, this is what we saw on our deck. Think they were telling us the cruise was over????? We did have a great time and are already planning our next adventure. If anybody wants to see how much fun we have, come with us. We are open to just about anything.

So, til later...............

RECAP

A few things that we thought were funny about this cruise were: always when we get on a ship, the first thing we do is put passports, money, billfolds and cell phone in the safe. Well, this time we had to use a credit card to open and close the safe - so, okay, now what do I do with the credit card???????

When going to the drink counter, which had great tea and lemonade - the first thing is the ice dispenser, so? where is the glass? at the other end of the counter. Oh well, we all learned fast to go to the end first and then back to the first.........

There were 800 kids under the age of 17 on this cruise and they were all in the pools and hot tubs all the time. We did get in on port days as they all got off.....
The only place we got off was in Roatan. Their new cruise port is beautiful. Opened in November of 2009 and is no where near where we use to dock.

This is the beach we were going to and it was great. Beautiful sand. Want to walk or ride???????

Let's ride. The view was great and had a breeze. Oh, well, got a red neck anyway. They call these Magical Flying Beach Chairs. We called them ski lifts.........

Then of course, there is always the shopping area, but they are now making them clean and a safe area for cruise passengers.

No Diving????? No kidding

Drew Carey?????????

Monte thought he might need to check out the Fun Times to see if there was anything we were missing - No Our days were full of nothing and nothing was just what we wanted to do. Monte did watch Avatar on the big screen during the day and had to take turns between the sun and shade.

And as always we had a good time........

WE ARE HOME - BUT STAY TUNED FOR MORE

Now that we are home and I can do whatever I want to on this blog - as long as I am smart enough, plan to do a recap. But -

Got invited to lunch with a birthday bunch of women and then tonight we are going to eat with our kids here in Snyder, so since so much has come up in my life - need another day or two to catch up on the trip.

Of course, we had a good time, because we plan to when we go.

When the garage door opened last night, I made the remark that the opener still worked and Monte sighed and said he was hoping it would not open and we could just keep going on down the road. Oh well, maybe next time.

Oops, the washer and dryer are calling. Check back later.........