Home for 2 days now

Now that it took me 2 days to post and I'm not kidding, my right arm hurts from this little flat laptop computer. I wanted to give my input on this Nickelodeon first time ever cruise.

Considering there were more children then ever seen on a cruise ship, it was GREAT!!
We got to the port of Miami on Sunday morning early OK around 10:30am and boarding doesn't start till 1pm. They started boarding us at around 11:30a.

Our first day after we got on the ship we headed right straight to the win jammers for some lunch. And wouldn't you know it Todd lost his good under water camera that we were going to use for the dolphin excursion. He racked his brains trying to figure out what happened to it and where he last had it.

Well after being missing for a full day, he remembered where he had it last. It was at the win jammers during lunch, my thought was oh my god, it's gone now and he was so up set with himself. We were thinking if anything maybe the guy who was in charge of that table took it and put it away. So we ended up at the pursers desk and wouldn't you know it they had his camera.

But other then that, the cruise was great. We met some really nice people as always on it. I have to say of all the kids on board the teenager were the worst of all. This is a brand new ship and those steal elevator doors had some bangs in it you wouldn't believe. We saw on an elevator and boy with 2 security guards taking him to his parents then about and hour later we saw him running down the stairs like a bat out of hell making noise and clowning around. The teen aged kids had no respect for the ship at all.

We met a couple with a 3 yr old little girl from China - she almost looked like she was about 18 months and cute as a bottom, she was a special needs little girl and her LID was Aug of 2005 - that's the 2nd person I know now with a LID on Aug 2005 a year before us. The couple is going back to china for their 2nd SN daughter in Jan of 09.

We met a great single lady Rita with a 9 yr old boy name AJ cute kid. And they are from Virgina. Then a lady Lisa and her daughter Tyler (11) from Reno - the 4 of them did the same excursion we did with the dolphins. I'm going to be making them both a mini DVD of the pictures we took of them with the dolphins. And we also met a couple Kevin and Katie from Connecticut with a little boy (4)name Tyler, so that was 2 Tylers we met. They have family in North Port Fl about 20 minutes from us, so the next time they come for a visit they will give us a call and we will hook up.

During one of the shows we saw at night, can't remember what show that was...oh now It just hit me, it was a never before seen SpongBob episode called GOO GOO GAS. I was asking Sam a question about how much fun he was having and there was a lady sitting directly in front of me said did you get one of these. I looked as she handed me a black and white photo of Sam and Freddie from iCarly, beautiful photo I may add, I showed it to Todd and Sam and handed it back to her, she said oh you can have it, I said really thank you so much. She said she was Nathan's manager and also gave me a business card and said if you're ever in LA give her a call. After we left the theatre we saw Nathan, Sam said hi to him he said hi back and noticed Sam had a pic of him in his hand and said to Sam hey that's not signed let me sign that for you and took it from Sam and gave it back....you should have seen the look on Sam's face.

It was a wonderful cruise all the way around, very costly I may add but it's a once in a life time opportunity for Sam and so cost didn't matter, it was his gift. It was such a success that they have decided (Royal Caribbean and Nickelodeon) to do this cruise next year. We on the other hand won't be doing this trip because we're hoping to be in China during that time next year.

When we got home I have to say this - I was afraid to get back on my Wii Fit as I thought I gained at least 5 pounds, to my surprise I put on .9 not even a pound. On the other hand my dear Mother put on 5.1 pounds not good and Sam added an extra 4.6 pounds.

So I hope everyone enjoyed our pictures of our cruise and until next time.

Oops one more thing - we made it threw TS Fay!!