Off Cruising Days 7 & 8 - Sea Days

The last two days on the ship were a long travel back to Florida, so they were both sea days.

Our last towel animal - a bat.

Saturday was a day of packing everything up, sadly!

It was a really, really fun week, we all had a blast on the ship! We were sad to leave the Freedom for the last time. HOWEVER, our vacation didn't end here! We still had a house waiting for us in Boca Raton, Florida for a week!

One last sunset on the balcony.

Sunday morning, we docked in Florida, and we walked off the ship one last time. And then we were off to Boca for a week! Sadly we didn't have very good weather, it rained all week, but that didn't stop us from shopping. All we basically did was shop. And eat. I caught up on my TV shows while it rained so that worked out. Yep!

A week of lots of shopping, eating, and rain later, we were off on a plane back to New York.

When we landed in Plattsburgh, we did some shopping there. Mostly for groceries because grocery shopping in the States is just awesome.

Montreal skyline from the bridge.

That's all the pictures from my trip! I have Canada Day pictures to come and some other pictures from a few months ago that I haven't posted, so those will be blogged about shortly. :)

Cruising Days 5 & 6 - Aruba & Curacao

Wednesday we docked at our third port, Aruba, on my 21st birthday!

Aruba was really colorful! It was really hot so we decided to skip the beach and shop instead, so not too many pictures were taken.

After lots of shopping and walking around, we headed back onto the ship for dinner! And after dinner was birthday cake time. Nomnomnom!

Aruba was the first port where the ship didn't leave until about midnight, so we were able to go back out after dinner which was really awesome. We went to a bar for drinks!

Birthday beer!

After drinks, we headed back onto the ship (which looks really neat at night).

Stingray towel animal! :D

I bought myself an iPod Touch in Aruba! My old one pretty much ran out of space and was crashing so I upgraded to a 32 GB. I'm having fun with it and the 4th generation is pretty awesome!

Birthday card from Carnival! It has a dolphin on it. It's pretty adorable.

The next day we were in Curacao!

Again, it was mostly shopping because it was too hot to do anything else.

The gorgeous view from our balcony.

Next stop: Florida!

Elephant! :D I think he was my favorite.

Next on the blogging to-do list are the last two sea days, and the plane ride back home. Stay tuned!

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!