Off Cruising Day 4 - Dominican Republic

On Tuesday, we were off to our second port: La Romana, Dominican Republic!

We stayed at Dreams, a resort, for the day. It had a pool pictured above..

..and also a beach!

They also had beautiful flamingos!

I had a couple of Pina Coladas. Yum yum!

Gorgeous flowers.

Right when we were leaving, it started to pour down rain. And when I say pour.. I mean pour.

We went back on the ship at about 3:30, and went back to our cabin to watch port runners. If you aren't aware, port runners are people who are late coming back onto the ship and run like MAD to get on before the ship leaves without them. This is our idea of fun.

The view from our balcony.

We were able to watch some kids play baseball from the ship!

The photographer in action. Oh and you can see my sunburnt hands. Yeah I'm not even sure how that even happened.

Rainbow!!

Off we go... onto the next port! Watching the ship leave was always fun.

Our picture from the first formal night! I really love it. :)

That's all folks! Next is Aruba, my 21st birthday, and Curacao!

Off Cruising Day 3 - Turks & Caicos

Monday we stopped at our first port: Grand Turk!

Before we had breakfast and got off the ship, we watched the sunrise from our balcony.

Capturing the sunrise with my dad.

After breakfast, we got off the ship for a day by the beach!

The ship was directly in front of us when we docked.

This is when we left my dad to sunbathe while Wendy and I went on our excursion haha.

While Wendy and I were waiting to go on our excursion, we walked around looking at the shops and all the touristy stuff. :)

After a few minutes, we were off on our stingray excursion on a boat to Gibbs Cay!

The water was so unbelievably turquoise there - it was just gorgeous.

Stingray! Wendy and I got to hold and kiss them, and we even got a back massage from them. It was definitely an experience. We got pictures taken.... but bright me decided to forget about picking those up. You know when I remembered about them? When the ship was on its way to the next port... yeah, a bit too late to be running back. Or swim, rather.

Wendy and I! Definitely a favorite picture of mine. :)

The conch shell display was pretty cool.

Cool looking rocks near the shore.

Seagulls! I love photographing these guys.

I had fun capturing the waves hitting the rocks, let me tell you.

When we got back to our cabin after dinner, this little guy was waiting for us! I still have yet to figure out what animal he is... any guesses? Either way, he's pretty cute with his cruising hat and sunglasses.
Well. That concludes day 3! Day 4 is the Dominican Republic, which I will be blogging about next!

Florida Bound

Finally blogging about my trip that took place a month and a half ago... better late than never, right?

We drove to Plattsburgh, and flew out on May 3rd to Ft. Lauderdale!

Leaving New York was gloomy and cold.. and landing in Florida was sunny and hot. The comparison is pretty neat.

The first day was more of a poolside, unpacking-in-the-hotel, relaxing day since we were pretty pooped after waking up at 4-5 AM to drive to Plattsburgh for breakfast (AT FRIENDLY'S!) for 6ish.

The second day, however, was BEACHBEACHBEACH which was lovely. :) Our hotel was really close to the beach (like, not even a five minute walk) which made it really convenient to just take my camera (and sunscreen) and go!

This was my first time in Ft. Lauderdale, which was a really difference experience than Orlando. A lot more beach and a lot less Disney World which made for a very relaxing two days before we sailed away.

My dad enjoying the beach.

The weather before we cruised was just gorgeous, the weather when we came back to Florida afterwards? Not so much.

I love the foamy waves.

I also really love going up and down the shoreline finding seashells.

This was the next morning. Gorgeous rays. I love this shot. Part one of Florida comes to an end. That morning, May 5th, we packed up and we were off to Port Everglades to board the Carnival Freedom!