Girl's Cruise

Last weekend, I went on my annual girl's trip. Once again, we went on a 3-night cruise to the Bahamas on Royal Caribbean's Sovereign of the Seas. This year six of us went - Me, Kathy, Jana, Emily, Renee, & Stacy. It was a blast!!! Here is my recap.

Wednesday, March 12
Today Grandma came in to babysit the little darling. In addition to my girl's trip this weekend, Jason is also having a guy's trip. The guys are heading to Las Vegas on Saturday so you can see the need for a babysitter. Plus, doesn't it really give Bailey an excuse to boss Grandma for days while we aren't there to correct her?

Thursday, March 13
Today I leave. Four of us have decided to head to Orlando today and stay at the Hyatt in the Orlando airport. I think we were concerned we would miss the boat on Friday. Better safe than sorry (or so we said). Kathy and I were on the same flight and arrived shortly after Stacy. Renee arrived about 45 minutes later and we checked into the hotel and got settled. We decided to do some shopping (about $100 at the Disney Store for me) and grab a bite at Macaroni Grill. After all that fun - which included McDonald's sundaes, too - we head to bed as Emily is going to come knocking very early.

Friday, March 14
As promised, Emily arrives bright and early at 7:45 am. We all get up and get dressed as Jana is expected to be in about 10:30 am. Then it is time! Before Jana arrives, we go have breakfast. After breakfast, it's time to check out and meet Jana at baggage claim. We grab her bags and head for the shuttle. Once we arrive at the ship, we immediately rush to the spa to make our appointments for Saturday and Sunday. Afterwards, it's time for the safety drill - complete with life vests and then we are off. Our first stop after the bon voyage party is Johnny Rocket's for shakes, fries, and dancing. The big activity of the night - I won $500 playing Bingo. (Just for the record, that is a lot more than Jason won in a town filled with possibilities.) After Bingo, we are all tired and head to bed.





Saturday, March 15
Our first port of call is Nassau. We don't get there until about 12 pm so we do the spa early. Once in Nassau, Emily and Jana head to the Pirate's Museum and the beach while the remaining of us head to Senor Frog's and back to the pool deck. We all meet back up for dinner. We are slated to leave Nassau around 12:30 am. We all had intentions of watching the ship pull away. However, Emily and I were the only ones who actually made it. We literally watched it push off and then went to bed. It was almost 1 am.










Sunday, March 16
Today we stopped in Coco Cay. This was my favorite day of the entire trip because we basically did nothing but lay around the beach - first on floating mats in the water, then in beach chairs, then on a hammock. It was wonderful! We had spa appointments for later in the afternoon so we got to spend about 4 hours on Coco Cay - which was plenty once you saw how "tanned" we were. We again met up for dinner and the late night comedian. After all that fun, it was time to pack up and get ready to leave. Already, we were sad it was coming to an end.

Monday, March 17
We get on the shuttle to head to the airport and wait - for over an hour. Once at the airport, we eat brunch (as we missed breakfast thanks to the shuttle) and then head to our gate. As with all good things, it has come to an end. We had a wonderful time but were all a little anxious to get back to our own beds (well, with the exception of Emily and Jana, who went on to Disney World and made me very sad).

See you next year!