Cruise: Day One

My cruise was absolutely fabulous. Unfortuately, the memory stick in my camera is not feeding properly into my computer. Perhaps I will post pictures later.

Technically, day one of my cruise was Thursday, March 9th. Our flight from Dallas had a nearly 2 hour delay, so we barely made our 3:00 boat departure. Leaving port was pretty smooth. It was really cool though when the boat started rocking because that was the only indicator that I had that I was not just hanging out in a huge hotel-casino. It was like, "oh yeah, I am on a ship on the ocean."

The first full day at sea is what I will call Day One. My name was drawn out of the bucket to play survivor. I helped my team regain time it had lost by swimming vigorously with a volleyball tucked under a wet T-shirt that I had to trade with my teammates. Still, they voted me off in the first round because they all knew each other. By the way, the water in cruise swimming pools is saltwater straight out of the ocean. That was a little surprising.

Every night we had a sit-down, four-course dinner with an awesome waiter named Derek from South Africa (bald white guy). Then Theresa and I would always go and see the 10:30 show in the 2,000 seat theater. 11:30 was when Karaoke started. It stayed open till 1 am. Still, Theresa and I stayed up and chatted until 3:30.

We slept in the next day because we had another whole day at sea. More on that later.