Cruise Day 1

For our 10th anniversary we decided to go on a cruise. We attended a travel presentation a few months back and they gave us a "free" 7 night cruise. Of course free means that you have to pay the port charges, taxes and service fees. Those added up to quite a bit, but still saved us about $500 from booking it online so it was still a pretty good deal and worth sitting through the hour presentation. We were able to pick any cruise that we wanted to we decided to do a Carribean cruise out of Miami. We had frequent flier miles for both of our flights, but through two different airlines. So Keith and I flew separately out to Florida, I did get a lot of reading done on the 7 hours flight! Keith got some sleeping in, sadly a little to much sleeping. He left our garment bag with all of our dressy clothes on it on the airplane. By the time he realized it, the bag was already on a flight to New York. It did not come back in time for us to make the cruise, so it had a nice little vacation in the Ft Lauderdale airport for the week. Keith and I landed in Ft Lauderdale late Saturday night and checked into the hotel. We woke up the next day and walked a little over a mile to the only store with clothes, K-Mart. The picking were slim, but we found a few things and quickly walked back to the hotel. Everyone was amazed that we walked that far, we thought that was pretty funny. Because we flew into Ft Lauderdale, we had to take a shuttle to the airport and then another shuttle from there to the cruise port. We were so giddy about our getaway that we didn't really mind. We went through the boarding process and got onto the ship and put our stuff in our room. Then we headed to the Buffet to eat. The food was amazing! Can I just say free ice cream anytime you want, wahoo that is my kind of place! That night we got dressed and went to dinner at the Summer Palace, the fancy dining room at the back of the ship. I had fish and lobster and Keith had steak, it was delicious. That night we just walked around the boat and relaxed.

Our Cabin

Summer Palace Dining Room

We ate here a few nights