Days 1 & 2 - Out at sea headed to Jamaica

The first night on the ship was a fun one. The lifeboat drill was rather tedious and long... I had to agree with the comedian that if there was a real emergency it is guaranteed that there won't be four nice and pretty lines made on that deck! I somehow managed to not get any pictures of Trevor and me in our lifejackets... The funniest part of the lifeboat drill was when I started looking around and realized that all the other adults had a muster station label on the front right side of their lifejackets, and mine didn't... Mine said SMALL but neither of us noticed that it was a CHILDS lifejacket when we got them out of the closet in our room! At least the life jacket fit me and wasn't too big!!! We had a casual dinner in the dining room followed by a family centered comedian. JR McCollum puts on a good show- he is funny, both PG and "rated" R...

Day one of the cruise we were out to sea all day long! We actually slept in really late in the morning. It is amazing what having an inside stateroom will do for getting sleep at any time of the day or night! Those rooms are DARK!!!! We finally got up and managed to make it to breakfast before going out on the deck to watch the ice sculpture in action... other events during the day included the Hairy Chest competition, our first formal night, the first Las Vegas type show put on by the dancers/singers on the ship. There were tons of things to do on the ship today!!!

The ice sculptor at work...

The finished masterpiece!

Me and Trevor after our formal dinner. We were actually in the Toulouse Lautrec Lounge waiting for the show to begin. Isn't it cute how we matched! :)

Me after the show... I had to take one picture of myself... Thank God for self-timers on digital cameras!!!!

We went to the midnight comedy show tonight to listen to JR McCollum one more time. He wasn't too crude... Jason and Belinda said that he did some of the same material that he did last year when he was on the previous cruise...

Day two at sea wasn't as action packed as the first. We slept in a little, not as much as the day before. We did some more exploring on the ship... still in search of the mythical "topless" deck... We never found one... apparently not ALL ships have a topless deck. We took these pictures on the deck. As you can see it was quite windy outside! Check out the blue waters out at sea!!!


The show for the night was a tribute to Motown. Mr. Jerome Dabney was fun to watch. At the end of his show he brought out the legendary, Stevie Wonder!!! This is a picture of him on stage! I was trying to get a decent picture of him on stage singing, but this is the best that I could do without leaning over the ledge!

Since this is the night before the wedding, we decided to split up and have our own "bachelor/ette" parties on the ship! Apparently this was also the night that the ship had scheduled the Mardi Gras deck party... We (the girls) went into the Disco for a while to watch the "kids" (I will use that term loosely...) from Arkansas dance and pretend to NOT be drunk... We ordered pina coladas and strawberry daquiries in these cool tiki man coconut things... Here is a picture of all four of us on the deck before going back inside to go to bed.

It was REALLY windy on the deck... I promise that I am not pregnant!!! Like our TIKI MAN drink holders?

This is the picture that we had a guy take of us in the disco... his friend was not 21 and he said it was ok for him to be drunk and not 21 because it was Spring Break... ok... maybe in ARKANSAS...