Quote for the Day:
"Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?"
~ Zig Ziglar
We timed our February trip to Florida to coincide with Andy's birthday. His wish was to take the month off...which he did...and to take a cruise while off...which we did!
After several days visiting with my sisters in Florida, we drove over to Cape Canaveral and took a cruise to the Bahamas!
We took this selfie as we were getting ready to pull out of port! (We're old, so it took both of us to take the selfie...me to hold the camera and Andy to tap the "shutter" button! LOL)
The cruise was 5 days/4 nights in all. We left on Monday afternoon...
This was the Coast Guard boat that escorted us out of the port...
it looked like rubber bath toy compared to our ship!
Leaving the inlet and entering the Atlantic Ocean...
Monday night the water was really rough and I ended up getting sick after dinner. :( But from talking with other passengers over the next few days, I was not alone. Many said they got sea-sick Monday night.
Tuesday was "at sea" all day, but thankfully the water was calmer and it was smooth sailing. We liked going up on deck and seeing the other ships in the shipping lanes.
Wednesday was our first port of call...Nassau, Bahamas! The weather was overcast at first but the clouds burned off about noon. I had researched the excursions and the ones in Nassau didn't get as good of reviews as the ones on Cococay (scheduled for Thursday), so instead we caught a taxi and went to Cabbage Beach, a public beach on Nassau...
You can see how pristine blue the water was...GORGEOUS!
I had taken my bathing suit and cover-up with me thinking I'd just change at the beach.
Unfortunately, at the public beach there was no place to change,
so I just rolled up my capris and waded in knee-deep!
Both of us with our feet in the tide...
Parasailers off in the distance...
Such a beautiful place to relax...
Our ship in the Nassau dock...ours is the one in the middle...
that is the BACK of the ship...the captain backed it in instead of pulling in...
My kids will get a kick out of this picture...
"T'ings"...it's a family quote from a movie we watched when they were young...
Returning to the ship after a day at the beach...
Returning to our room after dinner we found this towel creation on our bed...
On Thursday, our port-of-call was Cococay, Bahamas. However, as we were getting ready to head to breakfast they announced that the winds were too strong and the waves too high for us to be tendered in to the island. Major bummer!!! We had planned to "swim with the stingrays" and enjoy the beach on Cococay. We were very disappointed but had heard horror stories from other passengers about issues and difficulties they had experienced when they had been tendered in during bad weather. We heard stories of it taking two hours to get the gangway in place from ship to boat, etc., so we were glad that our safety was being watched out for. But we were still bummed.
They turned the boat around and headed back very slowly to Port Canaveral and we bided our time playing shuffleboard on deck, reading, playing cribbage, and donating to the casino.
That evening when we got back to our stateroom from dinner, this towel sculpture was on our bed...
When we got off the ship on Friday morning we drove up to our son and daughter-in-law's place in south Georgia and spent the weekend with them....but I'll cover that in my next post...
Loretta
