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Cruise with Holland America!!

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Our formal night: Thursday

You remember in times past, how we always do the assigned dinning. Eat dinner each night in the formal dinning room, eating like 5-6 courses with dinner lasting a minimum of 2 hours long? Well, this time, unbeknown to us, we had open dinning. We could eat at any time between 5:30 and 9:00 in the dinning room (if we made a reservation) or in the buffet. There were other restaurant choices, but these 2 are the typical main ones. Turns out, we actually liked not being tied to a scheduled dinning time. In the buffet, they serve exactly the same food choices as in the dinning room, you just can go at your own pace. We usually always ate in the buffet around 6:00, then attended the early show in the main stage after wards. After the show, we would go back for dessert.

We did do the formal dinning on the last formal night which was Thursday, hence the pictures. We were seated at a table with an awesome view of the ocean. The couple seated with us are Joe and Linda from Tennessee. Bobbie and Mark had met them earlier, found out they were Nazarene, so they invited them to join us for dinner. The traditional highlight for the last formal night is lobster and Baked Alaska. Is it all coming back to you yet? Mexico was better in comparison (is that even a word?). I need my bed.

Keeping in touch!

Yes, I am texting with you... the face is not a scowl, I am concentrating. :) Still getting used too my blackberry. lol

One of the ports

I am pretty sure we were in Road Town, Tortola this day. We were walking back to the ship and we walked past this big lizard. Scary!

Road Town, Tortola/ St. Thomas ??

I'm so confused... you know me, things just start looking the same to me after a while. I can't remember which port we were headed to. But I do remember, we all got to go to the very front of the ship, on this deck which is off limits.

Dad took a picture showing our ship (the big one) and another Holland America ship that came in to port when we were there. Our ship was huge.

I had to get a picture of dad by a Rotary sign. :)

Around the Ship

The top picture is of the main stage where we watched the shows every night. The seats were so comfortable and the shows were awesome. That was one of the positives by being on a cruise geared for the older folks. The comedians where hysterical without being foul. Your dad was laughing so hard he had tears.

The next picture is obvious... it is one of the many decks on board. Because of the abundant sun exposure on that deck, it was the hang out for the smokers and sun bathers. Needless to say, we dad and I spent zero time there after we set sail.

The last picture is the most comfortable inside lounge chairs on the ship. On the 11th floor, in the very front of the ship, was the Exploration Lounge. It consisted of the library, coffee cafe (think Starbucks), computer lounge, and different little nooks for talking, playing games and doing puzzles. Anyhoo, the chairs dad and Mark are in were so comfy. After about the 2nd day though, they were discovered. :(

Our day at Half Moon Cay: Friday, Nov. 7th.

These pictures of Half Moon Cay don't do justice to the beauty of this island. The water was actually turquoise and the sand an off white. The top picture is very blurry of Bobbie and I, but I wanted you to see the color of the water. Looking down into the water, you could actually see fish swimming around. Freaky!

The next pic. is where we (Dad and I) planted it for the day. We rented what they called a "clam shell" so we could hide from the sun.

The last 2 are pics your dad took. You know dad... his hiney gets sore, lending him the opportunity to get up explore, hence the beautiful pics .