Off Cruising Days 1 & 2 - Sea Days

Saturday morning we were off cruising for 8 days on the Carnival Freedom!

Had my first beer on the first day... ha.

The Fun Times - we got one of these in our room every day with a towel animal!

I had fun taking pictures of all the little things in our cabin that was home for 8 days.

Usual hotel/cabin mirror self-portrait + cruising hat, y'know, it had to be done.

After beer and checking out our cabin, we ventured out onto the ship to watch it set sail!

She's a biiiig momma ship, the Oasis of the Seas.

Reppin' Canada, eh? But really, this was just so my grandparents could (possibly) see us while the ship sailed away via webcam.

Next was dinner. Then dessert, pictured above. I had the chocolate melting cake pretty much every night.

After dinner, we went on deck to watch the first sunset while aboard the Carnival Freedom. :)

The next day was another sea day! We spent it up on deck, mostly.

I love this picture. :)

So before taking these, I have never seen water like this in my life. It was pretty surreal. This is also straight off my camera.

I was bored in the cabin. Or something.

After dinner, we got back to our cabin and found our first towel animal! We had quite a few different ones that were hard to make out. This one is clearly a puppy. :)

We also got the Fun Times for the next day, and Carnival chocolates. :)

And that concludes days one and two! Next I will be blogging about our first port - Grand Turk!

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!