The Entertainment

There was often live music in the lobby.

On-board movies/concerts/games while you sit in the pool,

hot tub, or just relax on deck.

Always great music and entertainment to be found.
Can you say TITANIC?!!

Exhausted!

It's to DINE for!!!

On-Board Activities

Ship all Decked out for the Holidays!

On Deck for the Cure: 5K walk/run ~~ 8 times around the deck!

Miscellaneous Pics

The confiscated suitcase


The confiscated knife

Ship Drunk, Tim (everyone knew Tim)

Tim hitting on Jessica

Tim hittin' Margaritaville at 10am

Hot Tubbin' with Tim

Challenging Ammon to a BIGGEST CANNONBALL SPLASH CONTEST (Ammon won)

Saturday, December 13

Arrived in Florida. We were able to pretty much get right on the ship. We took a self-guided tour of the ship, most of which I never saw again. The ship is sooooo huge. It was decked to the hilt for Christmas! The ship was amazing. We started sailing at about 430pm. So awesome! Our luggage was supposed to be hand delivered to our rooms. Mine arrived pretty quickly, but Josh's never arrived. We kept asking about it and they kept telling us that "it's still on it's way." OR "It's down at the front desk." OR "It must have been delivered to the wrong room and until that guest reports it, we won't know about it." We got a little worried, but what can ya do. So Josh ended up eating his first meal in the dining room in his sweats that night. It wasn't a "formal" night, but usually NICE casual clothing is required. We all got a chuckle out of that, but were still concerned about his LACK of luggage. We were originally assigned to have our dinners in the Botticelli Dining room (pretty ironic, get it, BOTTicelli :) ), but they didn't have us all sitting at the same table and were unable to accommodate us at one table there, so we were moved to another dining room ~~ the Davinci Room. We were kinda bummed about that at first, but turned out to be AMAZING. We had a GREAT waiter who catered to us, made us laugh, brought us "specials" every night and we had a BLAST! After dinner, we went to the "welcome show" which lasted about an hour, which honestly, I don't remember much about. I think I actually slept through a lot of it ~~ not because it was boring, but because I was a little sleep deprived at that point. When we arrived at our room that evening, we had a message from the ships security stating that they had Josh's luggage. It had been confiscated because he decided to pack a pocketknife! HELLO!!!! It was too late to get it that night, so we went to bed.

Arriving in Florida

Docking the ship

The Piazza (foyer)

Our room

The buffet room

Ft. Lauder dale/shipyard

A couple of the pools

Putting green

A view from the top

Kids area

Jessica and Kristy

A view of the bay

A passing PARTY BOAT

The Welcoming Entertainment

Decorated for Christmas

Where we were supposed to eat.

The "parting party"

Away we go ~~ a view from our

balcony room!

A look back at Ft. Lauder dale

Friday, December 12

Dropped the kids off at the Stapley's at 6pm. Thanks Catherine and family for making the week possible! We arrived at the Salt Lake airport at 10pm, energies high! Flight took off at about midnight. Flew into Atlanta at about 4am, had a 4 hour lay-over and then flew into Ft. Lauderdale, arriving about 10m. Flights went well, although not much sleep happened.

There were nine of us in all:

Robert (Josh's dad)

Josh and me

Jason and Meridith

Ammon and Michelle

Kristy

Jessica