Monday morning began with continental breakfast and a shuttle ride to the airport for our flight which left before 10 AM. We were glad to leave our decorated car behind us and travel a little more incognito. Dad was not so lucky driving our car home from the hotel later that day.
We feel like airplane seats are getting smaller and smaller. Our seat partner was going on our cruise too!
Flying next to the Florida coast
Our trusty luggage
Riding in the bus to the cruise ship. The couple across the aisle was from San Francisco. Apparently they did not understand the art of self-portraiture.
Completing necessary paperwork
There she is!The Majesty of Seas from the boarding bridge
Finally on board, I'm starting to feel relaxed. Wedding over, luggage on board, nothing to do but eat, sleep, enjoy the entertainment, and enjoy spending time with Ryan.
Miami is a really pretty city from the water. So many skyscrapers 360 degrees around you! The only city I've ever seen that has more is NYC. Almost every picture we took was a self-portrait, including this one taken by sitting the camera precariously on a piece of the ship.
Pool deckThere was soft serve ice cream here 24 hours a day!
FOOD, food, and more food!This is the Windjammer marketplace where we ate most of our breakfast and lunch meals. The buffets were amazing! Special made omelets, crepes, and pasta, mexican bar, scones, veggie burgers, fresh pineapple... the list goes on.
Time for the lifeboat drill. We felt a little like Titanic, although we felt better when we found that we each had our own flashing light and whistle so we couldn't have to search for a cold frozen man in case of emergency.
Our stateroom, #2571. Its best feature was that it was close to the elevators except that it took so long for one to reach us in the basement that we often took the stairs. Its a great way to work off all that buffet food.
Do you see the red dot? That's where our stateroom was. I don't think we could have been any further down. Ryan said we were in the "servant's quarters." But we completely enjoyed ourselves nonetheless.
The first night featured the Love & Marriage game show. It was hilarious especially because of the couple on the right whose children and grandchildren were sitting next to us during the show. There were over 60 newlywed couples on the ship. (We weren't counted because we didn't know we were supposed to tell them! Apparently if we had, we would have gotten free stuff and a sign on our stateroom door... would that have been a good thing? We're not sure...)
Couple #1: Newlyweds of 3 days (who WON!)
Couple #2: Married 15 years
Couple #3: Married for 50 years
Fed and content, we enjoyed the sunset
