Cruise March 2009

Our cruise departed on Friday, but we headed down Thursday for an extra night of fun. Josh and Kendra flew in at midnight so it was my job to find us a hotel. The requirments were cheap, and a good location between the Fort Lauderdale airport and the port in Miami. I met the requirments, but trust me it was not above and beyond. Online it was called The Holiday Golden Glades Boutique Hotel. Charming. What that translates to is used to be Holiday Inn. If you look closely at the picture you can see the "Inn" scratched off.After a good night's sleep we were off!We heard about the unlimited food available so we showed up at dinner ready to get our money's worth! The lady taking this picture asked if Craig was Josh's son?! And no, no one had anything to drink yet. The rest of the trip at dinner we referred to Josh as Dad.The second day we stopped at Nassau in the Bahamas.A friend of Josh and Craig's hooked us up with some free passes to Atlantis for the day. There's a water park, aquarium and the best lazy river ever!The ride over left something to be desired! I'm pretty sure they don't take the same driving test we do down there!We had to wait awhile for the our "connection" to get us into the resort. Needless to say, as much as we practiced we're never going to be asked to kiss for a movie! What is wrong with us?!An added bonus no one told me about was this little taste of heaven! Look at all the bags! Notice I'm the first one in.Trust me, this is a big chair after all we've eaten at this point.Right about here Craig gets yelled at to put the starfish back in the water, it can't breath! I pretended I wasn't with him and just took a picture of the crazy guy.The day went by too fast, time to go back and get ready for dinner! We were starved!As I was standing in the hallway waiting for Kendra, a qustionable lady walks by and says, "you look sexy in those heals, I sure hope he appreciates it". About that time Kendra opens the door and the lady looks at us both and says, "or SHE" and continues down the hallwaybefore I had a chance to say anything!Later that night at a show. (The other couple is Kendra's sister and husband)The last evening there, we could see the space shuttle leaving Florida. The funny thing is last time Josh and Kendra visited us in Florida there was a shuttle leaving and we tried so hard to see it but it was too cloudy. It was such a big deal so when we found out this one was taking off (about 8 minutes before it did) we couldn't wait for them to see. Unfortunately, we weren't together and they missed it again. We raced to the top of the ship to see it and there were 15 or so people on the deck with us. We start to see the shuttle and everyone is taking picture and this kid (about 16, with piercings and long black hair) looks at us with wide eyes and says, "What the hell IS that??" It was SOOOOOOO funny!!! He had no idea what was going on, he just happened to be hanging out up there. But he was nice enough to snap a picture for us.Comedy show, where once again it was commented on how young Craig looks. A couple sitting with us stared in disbelief that were married and said we looked 12! If only!When we returned Monday morning we were determined to have fun right up until Josh and Kendra had to fly out at 5 that evening. So, we took off for the Everglades!Craig INSISTED I hold this thing and even paid to take a picture! This was our tour guide, I don't remember his name, but we'll call him Bubba. He was really funn. He kept stopping the boat to tell a joke and as soon as he finished he'd take off again. Chicken's in the Everglades...who knew?

Bubba was so excited about these baby gators, apparently it's very rare to see gator's this young in the wild.

We had so much fun and can't wait to see Josh and Kendra in June for their wedding!! We're ready for our next cruise already.