A Day at Sea: The Return

I will be writing a series of absentee BLOGS while Michelle and I are on vacation. I'll be letting everyone know where we are and what we will be doing each day.

Today is our final day at sea of our vacation. We have made visits to three wonderful ports and I hope we have had the opportunity to get some great pictures that I will be able to upload and share with everyone when we get home. 

The deals will be a plenty aboard the ship today, everything is state and duty free which means we will probably be doing some shopping on the boat and probably spend a little bit of time in the Casino sometime today. 

As I recall last year I struggled to find some WVU footballs scores, and being we are playing Georgia State today, I probably am not going to know very much about the game until we get back inside the bay tonight or early tomorrow morning. 

Tonight will probably be a formal dinner and a special send off like they did last year. At Dinner the staff and crew always perform a dance number that is usually very memorable. Tonight's will be the goodbye dance as this will be our final dinner on the boat. 

We should be going through the ever turbulent Cape Hatteras once again, hopefully I'll already have my seas legs and won't be affected at all. 

  

Grand Turk

I will be writing a series of absentee BLOGS while Michelle and I are on vacation. I'll be letting everyone know where we are and what we will be doing each day.

Well we are visiting our first of three ports today, we are in Grand Turk and guess where we will be eating lunch at today? You guessed it, Margaritaville where you can find the worlds best calamari. This will be our lunch today, the rest of the day will be filled with snorkeling in the Ocean.

The water there is crystal clear and there is little to no vegetation in the water due to the high salinity content and the higher temperatures. This makes snorkeling optimal in my opinion and this will be what we will be most of the day.

Last year we did one video log, and it was after we visited Grand Turk. I'll try to do one for every day during the vacation, but I tried to do that last year as well.




Half Moon Cay, Carnival's private Island and our favorite port to snorkel is where we will be tomorrow.

Day 2 at Sea

I will be writing a series of absentee BLOGS while Michelle and I are on vacation. I'll be letting everyone know where we are and what we will be doing each day.

Well it is day number 2 at sea, we're still heading to our first destination of Grand Turk which we will be at tomorrow, but that is tomorrow.

If you are curious where we are at, you can track us with THIS, but don't try calling. They have not made it to putting cell phone towers in the middle of the Atlantic Just yet.

The picture that you see is my dessert that I have been eagerly awaiting since we got off the ship last year. That is the infamous Chocolate Melting Cake that everyone raves about. You can guarantee that I have had it every night at dinner thus far because it is nothing short of amazing.

Today we will be taking in the festivities on the boat and taking in a show or two most likely. As I recall the couples show is this afternoon and that was a lot of fun last year.

Talk to you tomorrow.

A Day at Sea

I will be writing a series of absentee BLOGS while Michelle and I are on vacation. I'll be letting everyone know where we are and what we will be doing each day.

Today will be our first day at Sea, last year this was the one time I got a little bit seasick as we were rounding Cape Hatteras and as we started to get out into the smooth ocean where it was crystal clear blue and something I just could not get enough of.

The picture of Michelle was taken from our room last year, but I learned quickly last year that you want to be port side so that you can witness the magnificent sun rises over the Atlantic Ocean. Last year in the back of the boat, we did not have the angle to see the sunrise or sunset, this time we are ready after our learning experience.

We will be partaking on a lot of the boats activities today or just relaxing on our deck. I will have already had my fill of Chocolate Melting Cake last night, so tonight's dinner will probably be the first of two formal dinners. My dinner tonight and I am going to be Hungry, Lobster. Yummmm.

We will be having our second day at sea tomorrow before we start pulling into ports later this week.

Bon Voyage

I will be writing a series of absentee BLOGS while Michelle and I are on vacation. I'll be letting everyone know where we are and what we will be doing each day.

Today is embarkation day. This is the day when we have all of our paperwork, boarding passes, luggage tags, passports and everything else we are taking and head to the terminal to get processed. This is a couple hour process and involves a good deal of waiting as they restock the boat that just returned.

We'll be leaving port at 4:30 PM and traveling through the Chesapeake Bay as we make our way out to the Ocean. It'll be tomorrow morning before we actually get out into the ocean, so tonight will be our first dining experience  of the trip when we meet our new table mates. Last year we had a wonderful couple we sat with, I just wish we could have both done it again at the same time.

It'll be a day of getting on the boat and getting situated. Maybe take in a show or the Bon Voyage show which is always a whole lot of fun. I promise that there are no boring times on a cruise ship, we'll have plenty to do. Since we already know this boat, less time trying to figure out where everything is. There is a Lido Deck Ice Cream machine that is calling my name.

Bon Voyage

Day at Sea the Return

Disclaimer: This week I will be on a week long vacation with my beautiful wife. These blogs were pre-written to keep a flow of my blog going and to let people know where we are that today and what we plan to be doing.

We are once again going to be spending the entire day at seas heading back towards the port of Baltimore. We have spent the last three days visiting places that we have only dreamed of seeing. Now we are on our way back, but we can still have a whole lot of fun on our way back.

The image that you see is actually right above our stateroom. It's the water slides in the rear of the boat in that pool. Yes our room is located under all of this believe it or not.

We'll be spending our final full day on the boat today and just enjoying the scenery and reflecting upon the memorable week that we just spent in a tropical paradise. I will have probably taken a great number of pictures, hopefully have captured some nice video and have created a lot of memories.

Another Day at Sea

Disclaimer: This week I will be on a week long vacation with my beautiful wife. These blogs were pre-written to keep a flow of my blog going and to let people know where we are that today and what we plan to be doing.

We are once again spending another day at seas today and will be once again enjoying all the amenities of the boat. The picture that I have posted is of the Atrium of the boat, this is the center of the boat where the glass elevators are located. We're on the 8th floor and just under the top entertainment deck. Just above us is the adults only pool, but at this time of the year I'm not too worried about any kids being around.

There is a beautiful theater that has Las Vegas style shows that I know we want to take advantage of, there is on demand room service at any time of the day, there are fitness rooms, casinos, pools and all kinds of entertainment.

I found another video of the staterooms, this is also like our room but not our room. It is however on our floor.