Thursday, August 1, 2013

Bon Voyage!

Eric & I just got back from a wonderful cruise with some of the greatest friends!  We left out of Jacksonville, FL on the Carnival Fascination. 

Our first port was Nassau, Bahamas.  We spent this day exploring the town...we went shopping in the straw market, purse shopping in the bag market (which is POTENTIALLY illegal), got kicked out of McDonald's for taking a picture, had a crazy cab ride, ate lunch at the Sheraton hotel, visited the beach briefly (it was raining all day), played in the casino, had my first Starbucks (yummy), had an even crazier cab ride back to town, went back to the straw market & finally to the jewelry stores (where I got my Pandora cruise ship charm) before heading back to the boat!

Our second port was in Freeport, Bahamas.  We had a BLAST this day as we spent the entire day kayaking in the inland creeks with our awesome tourguide, Sam.  After kayaking, we visited the beach where Pirates of the Caribbean was filmed & then taken to a private beach where they had lunch waiting on us.  We spent the rest of the afternoon on the beach before our bus ride back.

On the ship, we met our favorite waitress, Gini.  She was so sweet & we looked for her everywhere we went. 

We also spent a good bit of time in the casino playing cards.  We enjoyed sitting down at supper each night & talking with our friends about the days' activities and laughing at Tadd as he argued with the bar waiter! 

We all had such a great time & are already looking forward to our next get-away!

I came home & jumped right into planning Miss Molly's 8th birthday party.  It is so hard to believe that my little girl is already 8 years old.  I don't know if I can handle her growing up so quickly!  She had a great time at her party spending the afternoon swimming with all of her friends. 
                                                
However, she did have to take matters into her own hands (literally) to ensure that Halli didn't blow out all of her candles during the "Happy Birthday" song...LOL...

                                     





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Myrtle Beach 2007

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