Cruisin'... Around the Boat

Aside from all of the beautiful and lounging-packed destinations, our ship had some pretty fun stuff. You learned all about our fondness for the pizza bar in my last post, but we had a great time exploring and partaking in the awesome activities they have to offer.

Each night, there was a neat show. We only made it to one of them, sadly, because we had the late seating at dinner. Here we are at the magic show. I think it was good—at least from what I remember. That evening I was suffering from some major sinus congestion. My sweet husband bought some Sudafed for me at the ship store, and I took it in between dinner and the show. Needless to say, about 20 minutes into the performance I was sacked out. You can’t really tell from the photo, but we sat really close, right in the middle. I’m sure the magician must have seen me: head back, mouth open. I woke up when he was doing some crazy trick in the middle of the audience, about 15 feet away.

Our awesome porter (whose name I unfortunately could not pronounce) decorated our stateroom for us. We had a fun little mail box outside our room, and each night we would get the next day’s itinerary. We had so much fun going through all of the neat little activities and picking out what to do.

One morning we got up super early and caught an awesome round of bingo. We were the youngest people there by at least 30 years, and we had a blast learning all of the bingo lingo. For example, did you know that when they draw the number 25, you yell “A duck and a snake! A quack and a hiss.” I’ll spare you the details of the hand signals that goes with it!

After about a day of looking for the way to get to the bow of the boat, we finally found it. (If you’re ever on a Princess cruise, by the way, check deck 15 – it looks like it doesn’t go all of the way to the front, but it does!) It was incredibly, insanely windy when we stepped out of the door. At our wedding, Catherine’s dad gave us a lucky dollar to play in the casino on the ship. Matt put it in his pocket that very morning, but when we walked outside that poor dollar didn’t have a prayer. If you find our lucky dollar floating anywhere in the Caribbean, we would really appreciate it if you would return it. I mean, don’t you think it might be bad luck when your lucky dollar blows away?

And it wouldn’t be a proper cruise without a formal night picture. Please note, I was wearing a strapless dress in the photo, but that’s not exactly apparent. So much fun!