First Cruise Day

Well this place is just awesome! ;-)

We got on the ship around 3 pm yesterday and we checked out our room. It's bigger than expected and very well maintained. We have a fairly large port window, but no balcony. My mom was right though, we really are only in our rooms to sleep!

Our first singles group function was a mixer at this 70's Disco bar. Very cool for someone that would've remembered this time frame! ;-). The 1 hour of open bar nearly did me in! Lol

They had other functions planned for us, but I ditched them for a texas holdem table. Hey - this is my vacation! ;-)

The casino only has 1 holdem table and it's all electronic. This was my first experience playing on one of these. It's kind of like online poker except you can see the other players faces and mannerisms! I bought in for $100 and cashed for $350! That paid my bar tab for the evening, my $80 mandatory tips ($10/day) AND most importantly bought wi-fi minutes so I could post! ;-)

This morning I got up around 7:00 and after unpacking I went for a run. They have a run/walk track that is outside. That was just awesome! Running around and looking out at nothing but b-e-a-utiful water! In the hour that I was running I saw sunshine, was rained on, and blew all over the place by the high winds.

The rest of today has been relax day. We're still catching up on our sleep. I did venture back to the Holdem tables for about 2 hours and added an additonal $50 to my winnings!

Tonight there is another singles mixer - but this one is ship wide, so they'll be some more opportunity to meet people.

Then tomorrow we wil be in Cozumel and we have our snorkeling and 4 hours of open bar at a beach bar! I'm really looking forward to the snokeling and obviously the open bar! Lol

Well, I hope you all are doing well. I'm sure I'll have many more stories to tell as the week progresses. I'm still getting settled in! ;-)

Pictures will be forthcoming.

Later!!! ;-)