Cruise Pictures

Pictures that we purchased on the Cruise... This one was taken of the group at Nachi-Cocum Private Beach Club in Cozumel, Mexico.

This was taken in the dining room on the first Formal Night...

This one was taken the day we embarked on the Ship....

This was taken the 2nd Formal Night...

This one was taken after dinner one night...

The group on Formal Night....

20th Anniversary Caribbean Cruise....Day 1 & 2

SEPTEMBER 4TH-SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2010 We all stayed at the Radisson at the Port the night before the cruise. It's a nice place. We had lots of laughs with Wanda & Donnie in our room. The "boys" played with the sleep number beds...lol...

This was our cabin on the ship. We had a balcony cabin and adjoining cabins with the Glovers.

They had a mini golf course on the ship...

Kim & Stephen Watson and Barry & Cindy Churchill came down from Maine to go with us...

Jimbo & Beverly

Barry & Cindy

Shannan & John

Wanda & Donnie

Eric & Jennifer

Kim & Stephen

WC & Georgia

Scott & I

Welcome aboard Show...

Fun Ship Freddy...

FIRST SEA DAY.... DAY 2

The pasta bar was the BEST!

Ice Sculpture..

The Carnival Dream was a Nice Huge Ship!

First Dress up Night....Us Girls...

The Men...

20th Anniversary Caribbean Cruise..Day 3

DAY 3....COZUMEL, MEXICO Wanda getting "eaten" by a crocodile...lol...

I found a cake....

We went to a private club....the ocean was hard to get out of...so we all fell out..lol...it was a lot of laughs....we should have had Shannan on video it was hilarious....

Hot tub...pool...food..drinks...all included in the price...

Wanda fell off the banana boat...she came back on the jetski :)

Cindy, Donnie & WC....minus Wanda

WC, Jennifer, Shannan & Scott

Countdown to Cruising

Anyone who knows me knows that I LOVE to cruise...When I went on a cruise with my sister back in February, I had booked another cruise for Spring Break 2010. We had planned on taking our kids on a cruise then, but since then, our son Zack has decided that he wants to go to Greece with the church next summer. With the economy as it is, we needed to concentrate on one or the other and he would rather go to Greece. As for Cassie, she is at that age where if no other kids are going her age, she doesn't care either.

So, since our 20th anniversary is coming up next summer, I decided it would be fun to get a bunch of couples together and go on a couples cruise. I had tried to get my friend, Jennifer and her husband, Eric to go with us for Spring Break and she said if we were going just couples she would think about going, but since her two boys were going to Greece also, she couldn't take them on a cruise too....So, I thought, she'd be the one I'd talk into going first....
It didn't take long to convince her and after a dinner out with her hubby, he said to sign him up too...So then we started to talk it up with our other friends and so far we have 7 booked cabins!!

We decided as a group that we needed to get everyone together at least once a month so that we (mostly the men) would feel more comfortable spending a whole week together next summer.

Our first night out was with 4 of the couples going and one we are trying to talk into going :)

We went to Quaker Steak & Lube in Greenville...

John & Shannan

Jennifer & Eric

Jimbo & Beverly

Jason & Ashley (they haven't booked YET)

Denise & Zach

Scott & I

The other 3 couples that are booked but weren't here are Rob & Leesa (they went to the Mountains this weekend) and two couples from Maine (one couple is a good friend from high school and his wife and the other couple is his brother and sister in law.)

We are going on a 7 day cruise to Belize, Costa Maya, Cozumel & Isla Roatan on the brand new Carnival Ship: Carnival Dream in 48 weeks and counting....

The pictures of the ship are above...

Day 8 & Day 9...Two Sea Days....Heading back to Fort Lauderdale

Friday was our 3rd sea day....I love sea days, you can sleep in late and relax on the ship. Friday was a little chilly out on the deck in a bathing suit, so we spent the day shopping, going to a Murder Mystery game show, enjoying lunch in the dining room.

I am not much of a gambler....one I don't know how lol...but when Scott & I were in Las Vegas back in November. He liked to play this penny machine called Lobster Mania. The first day on the ship, I spotted this game on our way through the casino, so I decided I would take my $10 and play as long as I could.

I sat down at the machine and put in my $10 and within minutes I was down to $1.96 and I was thinking great, that was easy to lose $10. Then all of a sudden I won $24! I was excited so I kept playing....and I kept winning...$10 at a time. I was telling myself I needed to cash out when it got up to $75, then $80, then $90....so I cashed out at $100.25! I couldn't believe that I won $100 on a 2 cent machine....Of course, I didn't want to chance it anymore and quit while I was ahead....

Casino...

Here's the Lobster Mania game.....

Friday was also our 2nd Formal night on the ship....Pictured is our waiter and assistant waiter for the week. Also, my sister, dressed up in her formal dress...

They sang to us after dinner....

Me & The Matre D'....he was really fun all week....


Picture taken in the dining room....

Our towel animal on Friday night....

Saturday was another sea day....we sat out on the deck and got some more sun before we have to head back to the cold weather at home.

We ate in the dining room again for lunch. We were having a good time with the waiters in there, they are very funny. One of them kept singing this funny tune every time we saw them...

He made a hat and a torch for my sister to make her look like the statue of liberty.... :)


He made a bikini for himself....lol....

The sad part was we had to pack up all of our luggage and put it out in the hall before 12:00 midnight....we were going to be back at port in the morning.....we have a long ride home....

Our last animal....they are all so cute. My sister had a monkey hanging in her room one night...

We all had a great time on the Carnival Freedom....Next cruise, is Spring Break 2010 on the Carnival Dream....anyone want to go?

Thanks Doug & Denise for buying my cruise ticket....I had a great time and appreciate all that you did...Anytime you need a ride to Florida in exchange for a cruise ticket....I am your woman! LOL....Luv ya both....