We planned this vacation back in January before we knew we
would be going to Honduras and Europe this year. We went with the Warner family
back in October to Costa Rica and we jointly chose to go on a cruise together.
Omar and I have always wanted to cruise with other people. The itinerary was
really cool. 8 days long – 3 of them sea days and our stops were Grand Turk, La
Ramona Dominican Republic, Curacao, and Aruba.
We were going on the ship Carnival Breeze which is the
newest ship. Carnival has received a lot of bad press recently do to some
different incidences, but we have never had any issues. Due to the bad press it
helped us to have $400 of onboard credit, which I didn’t complain about at all.
We drove both cars down to Orlando so we could drop of our
car at my parent’s house while we were gone. I was going straight to an event
for a week following the cruise for making President’s Council for work. We
then drove down with the Warners to Ft. Lauderdale where we got a great deal on
a hotel room.
Ashley and I went to go find her some swim suit coverups
across the street from the hotel while the boys relaxed. We asked the locals
what there is to do and it was interesting because quite a few of them would
say there is nothing to do in Ft. Lauderdale. We finally received the
suggestion to go to Las Olas where there
are restaurants, art galleries, and boutiques sort of along a riverfront.
We ate at Rocco’s Tacos. It was really good, but the service
was bad.
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| Omar and Ashley |
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| Jeron and I |
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| Me and Hubby |
We drove down the beach at Fort Lauderdale and then pretty much crashed for the night.
The next morning we
woke up and drove around Miami and South Beach a little before heading to the
port to board the cruise ship.
This ship is really nice and you can tell that
it was new.
Our first sea day Ashley and I received a really nice
massage – it was a fully body massage, facial, and some other things. It was wonderful.
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