Wow, It's been over a year since I posted on this. Sigh. We had a blast on the girls cruise in Feb.

here's a couple of shots from Prickley Pear island taken in Feb 2009.

It's Not a huge place, but the waters great and the snorkeling is pretty good too.

We had lawn chairs, and, of course, rum punch.

for more details see http://www.pricklypearisland.com/

We've got 4 people interested but we're looking for 2 more.

Saturday Oct 13, 2007 - the end

This was a very sad day indeed. I was trying to survive on approximately 4 hours of sleep. Steve M set the alarm for 5 so we could grab a bite to eat, make it through customs and leave the boat by 7:30.

Most of us actually made it off the boat by 8:00 (due to customs not being quite ready) but there was some sort of mixup with the crew as to how we were to get off the boat so we lost one couple for about 15 minutes. But after a tour of various areas of the ship, they made it off in time for us to catch the 8:30 shuttle. And we did make it to the airport in lots of time to meet our flight at 11:25.

I did kind of feal sorry for the guy who was trying to get his family to the airport for a 10 am flight though.

The time change is really getting to me. Thank goodness we had 3 days to try to absorb the first 3 hours of time shift but this day was especially brutal because I had to absorb 3 hours time difference between home and LA. Think of it this way. We boarded our flight somewhere around 11:25 am and we were in Buffalo at 10:30 pm. And we still had the drive home! I think we made it to bed by about 2 am on Sunday and I was wide awake. Sigh.

But we all made it home safe and sound. I don't think there was too much lost - except for a pound and a half of chocolate we left in the stateroom refrigerator... Hopefully the room attendants had a great feast on it!

This will be my last post for a while. We have booked a cruise for next October though. So I may add some general information to the blog about that one. Now I have to start scrapbooking all the pictures that I took on this trip.

See ya soon!

Friday Oct 12, 2007 - last day at sea

It's a pretty sad day around here. We have to say goodbye to all our new friends. And everyone is packing up their things. Luckily we don't have that big of a rush as we carried our luggage off. Which means we didn't have to put the luggage out in the hall on the last night of the cruise.

And yes, I did remind everyone NOT to pack all of their shoes...

We played bingo, and one of our table mates actually one not once but TWICE in a row! Those Scottish people are always so lucky.

And here's our favourite band again. It's a group of Hawaiian guys and they can sing! And I'm not talking about ancient Hawaiian songs either. Steve asked if they had a CD (which the don't - sigh!). We really enjoyed listening to them!

And we had one last visit with Matt Yee. We probably didn't get to bed until around 1:00 am and we had to be up around 5:00 am so we could make our shuttle to the airport.

Thursday Oct 11, 2007 - at sea

It was another lazy day again. Just the usually eating, sleeping, shopping, piano bar visiting and so on.

But it was a formal night so we had to get dressed up too!

Oh, and I how could I forget: this was the night of the gala buffet. Here's a couple of the best pictures:

look at those chocolate covered strawberries!

Believe it or not Steve M and I abstained from eating this time. (Well, it could have something to do with our supper finishing up around 10:00 pm).

And then we were off to the piano bar. That Matt Yee guy is really a character. We'll miss his ancient Hawaiian sing a long songs! We bought one of his CDs to help us remember. The fun times we had staying up late and listening to him.

And dare we forget the cheer:

OI, OI OI, OI OI OI, MMMMMMMM

Wednesday Oct 10, 2007 - at sea

This was the big day for the Slot Tournament and Steve entered! While I was waiting for his turn I dashed out to the centrum and discovered the captain, a chef, and a passenger were making black forest cakes. I don't think the captain should quit his day job.

Back to the slots... After 5 minutes of diligently hitting the button, Steve was almost up to 3000 credits. The unfortunate thing is we didn't know how much 'money' he had actually spent because it the machines were set to just roll over when all the credits were used up. It's an interesting thought though. Next time I think I'll count how many times it rolls over.

Since he didn't make it into the next round we took a walk and found some of our party playing mini-golf. I don't think it was going to well because it was a very windy day and the wind was blowing the golf balls around. Aw well, at least Steve H had something to blame his golf score on!

Oh yeah, there was a scrapbook day so I went in and grabbed the goodies. I wish I had some pictures that I could have scrapbooked with!

Tuesday Oct 9, 2007 - at sea

Today we're a little more active. We earned lots of ship shape dollars!








Here's the Bean bag throw




And while that was going on a pod of dolphins decided to swim by







(ok Cathy I know you won't see them, but they really were there!)

And let's not forget about the ring toss

I think Karen was the only one (of the gals) who managed to get a ring on. That's ok. The guys didn't do so well either.

Monday Oct 8 2007 - at sea

This was a definite sleep in LATE day. I know I didn't get up much before 11 am. And it probably would have been longer if I didn't think I'd get razzed. And this was the day we had to start dealing with the time change moving forward. (remember that there's 6 hours time difference between Hawaii and home. And just flying to LA is a 3 hour time difference so jet lag became a major factor for our trip home. So we were lucky that the ship changed it's clock by 1 hour for 3 days instead of doing all 6 hours at once.


No pics from this day. It was a pure rest and relaxation day. Oh, and I think we cleaned up our cabin a bit. We didn't have much time for putting away clothes and stuff the past 5 days.