Caribbean Cruise

I know I'm a little behind, the whole transition of moving down, going on vacation and starting school all occurred so quickly that it was hard to fathom. We chose to go on a cruise this year for a couple reasons, last years honeymoon was interrupted by the navy calling Matt back which put a damper on things, and with us both starting school it will be a number of years before we can
go on a true vacation again. I also had found a great deal on cruiseshopping.com which gave us a military discount.

We went on a 4 day cruise out of Miami, and spent the night before the Cruise in Miami. It was about a 13 hr drive from where we live in NC to Miami with traffic. We had found a good deal online for the beautiful hotel we stayed at-pictures in previous blog entry.

I had told there was off site parking for the cruise that was cheaper- but it was noooo where near the cruise lines you would have to take a cab or something to make it from there to the cruise lines, so the parking was the rip off part, it would have been better to have someone in the area drop you off.

But once we were on the cruise we forgot about the expensive parking to stay at the hotel and to get to the cruise and had a fabulous time. We went to art auctions and variety shows and comedy shows and every raffle they possibly could have. We won necklaces and souvenirs since we were diligently showing up to all the raffles we actually won quite a bit of free stuff it is great!

The food was incredible and probably our favorite part, we did a far number of days looking at the beach, vs hanging out on the boat. We had a fabulous time and we are so glad we took the time and money to go, definitely was a treat after commuting to see each other the last year and a half.