Greetings fellow bloggers! I’m back. Hooray! Now, I have two weeks until classes start up which will give me just enough time to catch up on everything that’s been going on with you.
Since you all held up to your end of the bargain with lots of comments for me to read upon my return, here’s part of my end…pictures!
This is me doing pretty much what I did for a majority of the cruise: lie in the sun. My cruise day typically went something like this; eat, lie in sun, read, eat, lie in sun, get ready for evening: eat and see some shows. Or something to that effect. That’s my mom in the background trying to be inconspicuous.
Cruises have two formal nights, where everyone gets all dressed up in their finest for dinner and evening activities. Our first formal night was Sunday night. This is my mom, me, and my sister in one of the lounges, waiting for our drinks and also waiting for a magician’s show to start. When that show started, guess who was the lovely audience volunteer to come on stage? It was me!
This is my mom and me (with an attempt at curly hair) drinking our first martinis. For my mom it was her first ever, and for me it was my first martini, and vodka for that matter, since the incident that was the Cubs game.
Cruises also have photographers everywhere snapping pictures they try to sell to you. We bought this one, which is the three of us getting off the boat at St. Maarten. It was definitely my favorite of our stops. St. Thomas was too American for my taste. Which just goes to show…I am zero for two in things named St. Thomas (see college #1).
This is me in front of a little church in St. Maarten. I liked the look of the church, very islandy. See how tan I am getting?
Princess Cruiselines, which we were riding, does a champagne waterfall. There are 725 champagne glasses in that configuration. I have no idea how many bottles of champagne it took to fill them all, but this is my contribution. They have a “champagne and bubbles party,” but after a dinner with extra lobster tails, thanks to our waiter, we were stuffed and somehow the champagne missed us.
True to form, this is me laying in the sun. This time on the beach in the Bahamas, which was Friday. The best thing about the Caribbean is how quickly the rain goes away. That morning we woke up and it was cloudy. As we were eating breakfast, it started storming. Seeing a thunderstorm on the sea was ineresting. Yet within two hours, I was on the beach, and as you can see, it’s quite sunny. Barely a cloud in the sky. I wish it’d do that in Chicago.
Well all, that’s it for now. I must go and do all the not-so-fun, post-vacation things like unpack and do laundry. Sigh. Vacations are just too short. I’d love to be back there already.
