Carnival Cruise, Part III

    Part 3 of 3: from the cruise I went on with my parents in February 2016!! More "boat stuff". Since the cruises aren't that long and the ship is really big, part of the days include exploring around- with Trollie and Suzie. Also in this post you will see some pictures from our formal dinner. I do really like getting dressed up and getting our pictures taken, but I guess not that many people enjoy it since it seemed like there were less people in the dining room that night. The main area with different self-serve food bars (salad, meats, desserts) are open all day and the people who made pizzas non-stop were open until midnight.

   ^^ I believe this was the really yummy potato soup with chicken and croutons that was the appetizer one night (there were probably 3 or 4 options for each course to choose from). I ordered something adventurous, like duck?, for my entree, but didn't end up liking it and asked if I could just have more of the soup instead, which they brought to me! :)

^^ Movie at night with fresh, hot popcorn! Pretty sure we watched one of the 

Mission Impossible movies. Whichever one came out in 2015, I'm sure. 

Excited to find out what movies will be playing on our cruise next weekend.

 PS- did I mention how I did an awesome job eating healthy and walking a lot to get back down to 105 pounds for the 2016 cruise? Because I did! Hence mirror photos. ;)

 ^^ Chocolate cake bar!!

    ^^ Harry Potter trivia! We didn't win though. I didn't know a few of the answers including
the name of Voldemort's mother. I only read the books once.
   Below you can see us spending time outside while docked, possibly at Freeport Harbour, where I got the bright orange destination tank top that I was wearing here.

   Daddy did the rope course twice and my mom and I, along with a bunch of other strangers, cheered on a random boy who was scared to cross one of the areas. I don't blame him!

    The last night there was a gathering specifically for people who were Carnival Members. My parents are so I got to go. There were appetizers and the British cruise director who does all the announcements was there so we got to meet him. I don't remember his name anymore, but I want to say I started with a B. They called down the members who had cruised with them many times- maybe the number of cruises they had been on, or how many years they had been members? But my parents joined a bunch of other couples on stage for a slow dance.

  My favorite memory (just being very "wowed") would have to be this Motor City song and dance performance. So much energy, cool costumes, great singing and dancing, the colors and lights, the actors popping up near us in the audience, liking all of the 80's songs.

   And then, after the show all the singers showed up in the main bar/mall/lobby area, so of course I wanted to get a picture with them because they were so awesome.  So my mom took a couple group photos with me in them. And it seemed like all of the sudden other cruise guests noticed the singers were there, not realizing I was not one of them, but kept taking pictures of us- so I got to be in all of those people's pictures too! Haha. :D

   We also went to a dating game show and a comedy show that were entertaining.    
Until next time.. AKA 9 days!! ..& February 2022 ..& November 2024!!   :)   :)   :)  

Carnival Sunshine, Part II

This is the post about the three stops we made in the Bahamas during our cruise in February 2016:

Nassau: 

   Ah, the famous Atlantis Towers! It was a beautiful view for breakfast on the ship.

  ^^ Police car! Notice how it says their emergency number is 919?

 ^^ The soap store that my parents always stop in. They have gone on these short 4-5 day cruises so many times that my dad told me that sometimes they don't even get off the ship! But that would be a great time to use the cruise pool and slides and such since probably at least half off the people are in town. Notice the horse's little hat below?

   ^^ With my bag full of goodies.

  I still have a bunch of those cards that I haven't mailed, since I usually mail typed letters or scrapbook cards. I don't use pre-made cards often, yet I still feel the need to buy all the pretty ones! I believe I gave the gray.. reindeer?.. to Mia, but I have the yellow one and the dragon on my book shelf. The pink rolls are soap. The best smelling scent! Not sure what the scent is since I used them after the trip.. Maybe Summertime? If I'm reading the blurry font correctly.

   ♫ "What tiiime is iiit?!" ♪ ♬ Alana knows what's up! ;) 

Half Moon Cay:

   At this port we had to take shuttle boats that held maybe 200 people each. I don't remember if we were assigned a time or previously chose a time to go down to the "ship basement" to get on the boat, but I don't think we waited long and the ride was maybe 5-10 minutes. I don't have a picture of the boat though. I'm sure my mom got one --or five-- but she doesn't have a blog yet. 

^^ The water was so beautiful, but cold. Hence only going knee deep.

For lunch, which was free/included, there was a pavilion where people were grilling tons of hamburgers and hot dogs. It has to be a ton of food considering the ship holds 3,000 passengers! 

They also had fruit and various salad mixes and chips. I don't remember what else since I'm just going by the picture of my plate I had. There are a bunch of pictures I'm not posting. 

You know what a hotdog looks like. & 99 seems like enough for these 3 posts! ;) 

 ^^ Bahama kitty! And there was a chicken with all her babies enjoying the crumbs we dropped.

Freeport Harbour:

  Starting with a necessary cliche palm tree photo! :)

  This was a pretty small area from what I remember, and the "stores" were like warehouses without any air conditioning. Still, my mom bought me a shirt from one, I think (probably because I complained about not wanting to spend $20 on it)? It was a bright orange tank top that you can see me wearing on the top of the ship during mini golf in the next post!!