Bahama Cruise

Mitch and I have been wanting to go on a cruise since...gosh, before we were married. Our amazing friend, Rebecca J, found a great deal on ecruise.com and invited us to tag along with them and another amazing couple, Shannon and Dave, on the Bahama Cruise Vacation of the Century!
We started our vacation off by sending Marshall to the in-laws (who are phenominal - we don't deserve them! They are way too kind to us! We can never repay them!) for an entire week. Early Sunday morning we piled into the J-van bracing ourselves for the 14 hr drive to Port Canveral, Flordia. It actually wasn't that bad. We spend most of the 14 hours talking, laughing, and chowing down on junky road trip food! We arrived a little after 8pm at the fantastic hotel that Shannon found for us. It was amazing. Talk about starting the vacation off on the right foot! The pool was too cool to pass up. Early the next morning Mitch and I enjoyed a relaxing dip in the hot tub and laid out by the pool until it was time to shower, check out and shuttle over to the BoAt!






Here is a group picture of the bunch of us. I just love how the stranger that I asked to take our picture took such a FAnTasTic shot of us. He went for the blurry, no one looking at the camera shot. Nice.

We Cruised on the Royal Caribean's, Monarch of the Sea! Here we are happily self-photographing as we bid "Bon Voyage! Bahama's or bust!" from the top deck of the boat!






The rest of the pictures on this post are of us just simply enjoying ourselves on the cruise. Relaxing on the top deck, in our room, arriving in the Bahamas...

Part 2 Bahama post

We docked docked in the Bahamas a day earlier then planned because we weren't able to go to the Cococay (Royal's private island) due to choppy waves...Mitch and I walked around the tourist shops, took a carriage ride (I thought we were not going to make it back alive or with all of our body parts, whatever, we made a memory) we walked around the port and just enjoyed ourselves. Early the next morning we did a group snorkeling excursion that Becca found. So cool! We went to three locations, the last location, we swam with sharks. SERIOUSLY! And YES - the carriage ride scared me more then the Gray Reef Sharks. Mitch and Ron won gold and silver place in the ping pong compettion. Becca, Shannon and I entered the sexiest bicept compettion (No, I don't take myself seriously, it's more fun when you don't!)...Shannon won sexiest bicepts! Wahoo! We rock climbed on the boat. We just had a good time. A really good time.















We had a FANTASTIC time! Both Mitch and I agreed that we would have had fun if we traveled by ourselves, but hands down traveling with other FUN couples is the way to travel on a cruise!