Double Dipping w/a Marine and a Mouse... (Update 9/123 pg25-Flying Home!)

[anewmac]

we had igor on our august cruise but he was the server, not the assistant server, hope he didn't get demoted because i thought he was great! did you like him too?

We loved him, but he really didnt talk much till then end.. its like he opened up to us LOL

OOH NICE long update!

Love how you really did take pictures of your pictures.
Remember the last night how you told me I needed to do that when we had the pile on the floor? Well, we thought we had decided, narrowed it down there were a few I wanted but knew we wouldn't be able to get b/c I promised Ron we would only get the smallest package this time, so I was going to just take pictures of them but I ended up having to go back to the room to look for the stupid little card that says how many you have left to buy and when I got back he had the pile all cleaned up and the ones we were buying in the folder and I totally forgot to take a picture of them....
Oh well, next time!
LOL Ya I do that everywhere we go, Disneyland, medival times etc.. I mean I do buy 1 or 2 but not all.. I just saw this hand held scanner in the paper that takes batteries and a memory card... IM SO GETTING IT.. yet not sure how that will work now that they are starting to photopass on board LOL

I ate the same thing as you at Animators....yummm.....
They took away my favorite mushroom appetizer, though, shame on them
Telling ya, great minds think alike... ohhhh mushrooms I love them 2 lol

Postcards....I still have the one on my fridge to mail to you....maybe I'll get it done when I do my Christmas Cards. lol
We did open our bag there, however I didn't read the postcards at the time so I didn't see that I was supposed to give it back to you! SORRY! What a great idea that was, though....(next time!)
I thought it would be a fun thing.. different and whenever for ya to send it back.. the boys would love that... its like getting pieces of the cruise back.. LOL plus its much better then all the bills LOL

The post its are one of my absolute favorite gifts though. They are so cool I don't want to use them!

Keep the good stuff comin'!

thanks hun, glad you enjoyed! both the post it and the report.. working on the next installment.. I figure at this pace I should have the cruise portion done by ohhh end of January lol.. WDW portion by end of March LOL

 

[anewmac]

9-29 Monday sea day

Todays Sign

The boys all sleept in today so I got up around 7ish I believe and pre filled a coffee cup with kalua and headed for the beverage station... in sneakers. I was not having another episode today of doing the splits. I walked the ship and took some pics.

sunrise

good bye world

start of the day

Working hard around the ship, can I take you guys home with me

Got more coffe. Found Shutters.. Too bad they werent open...

Eventurally I went back to the room took a shower and got ready then woke the troops up for our character breakfast today which was at 9am.
J on the top bunk

P on the bottom bunk

E snuggled in bed

Breakfast today was in Parrot Cay.

I love the feeling that Parrot Cay is like the Tiki Room... my favorite at Dland

. Even E got a lil crazy with the napkin hats.

Tons of pics with characters.

Chip... or Dale?

Minnie

Pluto

The Big Cheese

Goofy

Dale... or now is this Chip

Me with 2 Goofy guys... lol

OH and we ate here too LOL ... no clue what I ate but Im sure it was good!

this had to be E's cuz I dont eat eggs like that

I do remember that the bannana bread was yummy, P and I kept asking for more. Also Tonya, Mike and I had plenty of Coffee and Kalua's! Perfect start of a day!

After we finished breakfast we checked the boys into J's club so they can make flubber. P's club made it right after J's so this way they can do it and then we can get them to go swimming after.. If not P would have missed out on some pool time. At 1st he didnt want to go to the LIL kids club but once he found out it was that or no pool time he was fine with it! Also the crew has no problem letting bigger ones into the lil ones clubs.

With the kids in the club, E and I had time to walk the ship. I grabbed E and we passed out 2 decks of fish extender gifts. Oh yes he LOVED THIS.. me dragging him around the ship to put all this stuff (he used another word lol) I brought to put in hanging things as he called it lol. By the 10th one he really was into and loved checking out everyone’s magnets and f/e’s

Our cruise meets thread had like 3 or 4 families scheduled in 1 room for a while until it got worked out we dubbed room 6080 the party room, so I made a magnet for the unofficial Dis Party room.... but opps I forgot which room it was and made it for 6030 .. close enough.. people got it.... sort of.. after our cruise.. once I told them LOL

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Once we finished with passing out the f/e gifts it was about time that flubber was over and we went back to the club to get the boys.

Great Googaly Moogaly

The boys ask what we are doing in their club and we ask them if they want to go swimiming… heck yes they say. So they finish up with their flubber and off we head to the Mickey pool.

The boys head straight for the Mickey Slide. They run around a few times before they figure out where the entrance is. But once they do they go down the slide a couple times. (see slide show!)


***since I included so many pics in this installment.. I have renamed it Character Breakfast.... but the next one will include the FUN ADULT stuff.. Tequilla, Martini's, Margarita's, and more "WATER" OY I'm getting sick just thinking about it all***

 

[MAGICFOR2]

Drea! Love your updates! It's great that your boys enjoyed their clubs so much! I love the Tina Turner dance! I would have been so embarassed and looked stupid - you just looked like you're having fun!

We were in 6080 until we cancelled - thanks for thinking of us!

 

[nenner1]

Great update!

E is a trip with his goofy ears!

Love the little slide show movie. Too cute.

I really need to get back on the ball and get my next segment going.

 

[anewmac]

ohhh where were we now... OH ya the Oh so Fun Mickey Pool.

The boys weren’t in the Mickey pool for more then about 10 minutes... before they called everyone out. WHY? A UFO (remember unidentified FLOATING object) was spotted.. are you serious.

**I have to share a story about a mom trying to get her young son out of the pool at this time. The lil boy wasn’t more then maybe 4. Once they called everyone out of the pool this lil boy would not get out.. The mom kept calling him and nothing. SO finally she goes into the pool to get him with the no more then 1yr old on her hip. As she goes after the one son he jets to the other side of the pool.. She goes left he hooks right… this goes on 3-4 times. She is calling his name and with each shout it gets louder and louder. By this time me and like 3 other moms are standing there covering our mouths dying with laugher. I believe we all said in unison… “THANK GOD THAT’S NOT ME” it was a good 5min show. And if that mom is on the boards…. THANK you for the comic relief I know you didn’t think it was funny then but I hope you can laugh now… cuz we were laughing WITH YOU not AT you… oh who am I kidding we were totally laughing at you and your kid. BTW this gives you full range to laugh AT me when my kids have a melt down during dinner and pics LOL**

E talks the boys into going to the Goofy pool so he can get in also. Before we leave the Mickey pool area we grab some snacks from Goofy’s Galley and Pluto’s Dog House. Chicken nuggets, a cheeseburger fries and a turkey bacon and tomato panini, and wrap of some sorts. YUMMY.

Along the way we point out CUBA

The boys all eat and head into the pool. I just watch them, relaxing on the side with drink in one hand and panini in the other. I pull the boys out to take a pic with Stitch.

They jump back in the pool with E. After a bit the cruise director comes out and they start having the kids dance the Macarena, Cha Cha slide, etc. Then out comes aerobic Goofy? He had the kids do all sorts of cute exercises on deck…

Heres a video you can see J past the lil girl in the pink/purple suite next to the girl in the agua suit.... basically he's the short lil mexican in Camoflauge trunks, shaved head LOL


I probably should have joined in for a workout, but finishing off my scoops ice cream w/chocolate sauce seemed like such a better idea.

J has the best form out there since he was trained by a Marine LOL

Eventually I had to be the bearer of bad news and let my boys (all 3 of them) know everyone out of the pool...

Told the boys they had to go back to the clubs so that dad and I can get drunk… I mean do tequila tastings. Which was supposed to be wine tasting but E and I obviously cant read, nor can the girl from Diversions either. We had tickets for wine tasting at 2pm, but I got confused and thought it was for the Tequilla tasting (which wasnt until our NEXT see day, which I should have known, Tequilla and Beer go much better together then Tequilla and Martini's.

So we get the boys dryed off and drop J off at his club and leave P to go to his. We make a bee line to Diversions. The whole time Im looking for Tonya and Mike.. but they are no where to be found. Here I'm thinking they ditched us and didnt want to do the tasting.. nope its just that they were in the correct bar doing the correct tastings... LOL oh well.

We were sat with this older couple on their 2nd Disney cruise with their kids and grandkids. They were a blast and come to find out he is a retired Marine.. right up E's alley! (after we left the tasting E and I both said I knew that guy HAD to be a Marine, theres something just about Marines that you can spot LOL). Another lady joined us and she was just a hoot. We had room at our table for one more as their was a place sitting next to us, so she told the waiter to put the drinks there and someone was coming.. .....no one ever did, but no worries those drinks didnt go to waste!!!

So anyhow we tasted 5 tequillas, Erica you would have been so proud of me LOL

Im not big on tequila I usually have to be pretty drunk to do a shot (and at that Im a girly girl shot drinker, Scooby Snacks are my shot of choice) I did my 5 te-kill-ya's and everyone else split up the persons that didnt show up. I also had my 2 margaritas (regular and strawberry) and the other silent partners too LOL. So after all that (plus all the water I had previously while the boys were swimming)… I was feeling GREAT! Saw Fatcat , Amy, & Dave (the newly engaged couple from our meets thread).

the marine was drunk (that never happens a drunk marine LOL) when he took our pic.. can ya tell

We decided to leave the boys at their clubs and take advantage of our privacy sign

After our "nap" we had just enough us time to make it to the martini tasting. We then meet up with Tonya and Mike and come to learn… OHHHH we were supposed to do wine 1st. Oh well I will have to just get them exchanged the girl told me. On to the martini tasting where we saw Brandi, Ken and Kimberly (all from our cruise meets thread).

BTW excuse my ummm slurring, or repetitive talking or mumblings… E got me intoxicated LOL

doesnt he look so thrilled... like MORE alcohol oh joy

Drinking Buddies

its all fun and games now, until someone gets drunk

So E would just sip the martinis.. then I would get the extra’s. This worked out well for ME, until it was time to get ready for formal night which was…. Oh ya NOW. Oh crud.

I run back to our room while E checks the boys out of the clubs. I jump in the shower and start to get ready. Once Im out I find the boys back at our door... seems we had a visit from the F/E fairy.

Thanks Vanna

I throw J into the shower. Ya not a good idea… I think I was trying to turn the cold water on and ended up going to hot.. thus burning J well not really but I do remember him saying OK mom that’s hot enough.. E said I kept yelling I cant find the &$^(&#)&$#) cold water and J has soap all over him. Im laughing, J’s laughing and E’s napping.. while P is trying to get dressed.

After that fiasco, apparently I was trying to do my hair and it wouldnt cooperate so I started shouting I cant do it, its not working for me, how do I do it (I can ONLY imagine what the people in the cabins next to us or anyone walking past our room thought that all meant) E said he told me I cant help you with this issue my only solution is to shave it off. Also somehow in my drunken meltdown I was rushing to get J dressed and do my hair that I kicked a trashcan halfway aross the room, thus sending everyone into laughter.

EVENTUALLY, we all were dressed, the boys are all snazzy and looking great… with their black suits and ties and converse.. yup P begged me not to wear dress shoes and you know what they looked great with there cons.

Should have bought E a pair also LOL.

We run to the Walt theater (now remember we are on deck1, the theater is on 4. Im in a dress and 3in stilettos and the boys in suits. You can imagine the site we look like) We get in the theater in time for the show to start, missed the whole red carpet oh well. I then put my shoes on since I had walked/ran barefoot the whole time in order to get there faster. I would have been a mess running in 3in heels a dress and still drunk member!

The show starts and J climbs on my lap as he cant see. So we snuggle and E starts video taping the show, I take a few pics (come to find out later I DID remember to do no flash… not bad for being intoxicated.)

This is the Golden Mickeys

THIS is the Golden Mickey's while intoxicated... any questions?

After about 10mins… I don’t remember much of the show, I seemed to have um taken a nap… good thing E videoed it so I can watch it again … I feel bad for the guy next to me.. E said I was snoring but I think he was just making fun of me. I HOPE. (btw DD'ers, the video is dark so ya cant see me passed out... so if its not on video/pics.. IT DIDNT HAPPEN LOL)

(continues on next post I had too many pics)

 

[anewmac]

Since I was nice and refreshed, and we had some time before dinner, I deceided we should take pics. Ya thats a great idea drunk mom and dad taking formal pics with their kids!

ya Im still not drunk or anything here lol

I didnt even know we took a picture with the captain till the next day when I went to shutters LOL

Dont ask me what we had for dinner... cant remember names.. but I have pics

my soup

I had 2 dinners here I remember that

beef wellington was yummo

I had told Tracy from Dreams, we would love to celebrate the boys bdays since E was gone for theirs. I didnt want T's boys to be left out SOO we told them it was all their bdays LOL

I just noticed they spelled P's name wrong and forgot Jaren LOL

Igor (lol I still cant say it w/out lol) playing the "banjo"

Finally a pic I dont look drunk in.. well not that much

So glad you took this cruise with us T... or vise versa LOL

After dinner we walk by Studio Sea and they are doing some dancing so J and I hit the floor.

Then they play his favorite song


We should have put the boys in the clubs and saw one of the adult shows but we didn’t. I think we partied hard enough like rockstars to know when is when.

Elephant?, Dog?

We went back to the room, no room service was ordered tonight, but we pre ordered breakfast. So we all make our choices. Tv goes on for a bit, they all watch while I break out the laptop and do a quick write up of what was did today (you should have seen my rough draft LOL It was about 3paragraphs and I think each one had the line OMG I'm still drunk LOL) Once the boys fall asleep I put the laptop away straighten up the room, get whatever we need for tmrw ready, then hit the rack myself

Next Up: Bootleg Island Tour in Grand K

 

[MAGICFOR2]

Drea! You hic found a way to hic pass time on your sea day hic!

You look beautiful in your formal pics, so no worries. I noticed the captain is keeping his distance, just in case!

 

[anewmac]

Drea! You hic found a way to hic pass time on your sea day hic!

You look beautiful in your formal pics, so no worries. I noticed the captain is keeping his distance, just in case!

lmao

Im thinking I must have reaked from all the alcohol and the Captain didnt want to get a contact Buzz LOL

 

[podsnel]

OMG- martinis AND tequila?!! I'm VERY impressed! You guys really are marines!! LOVE the Golden Mickeys intoxicated pics- I was HYSTERICAL over that and your snoring!! You look beautiful in your formal pics, and VERY happy!

Ellen

 

[TheDisneyGirl02]

Drea, the soup looks drunk! LOL!!!!!! It's all blurry!

Still enjoying the TR!

 

[nenner1]

WOW!

A two-fer! Awesome!!

(I'm such a slacker)

I can't believe you did all those tastings (with extras to boot)!
You are certainly a professional! Also love the boat's a rockin' sign.

Laugh til I almost cried at the "Golden MIckey's on Booze"...any questions!!!

And all I can say is I am impressed. All that liquor, three inch heels and you still do a pefect Chicken Dance! I can't do it sober.

Keep it coming! Great installment!

 

[podsnel]

Ok- I confess, I did not have time to watch the chicken dance footage until today. And may I just say.... That was excellent!!! YOU are VERY talented after all those drinking classes! I'm, once again, impressed!

E

 

[Alice_on_WONDERland]

I am HOOKED on reading your trip report! You are HI-larious!

I would love to cruise with you - you'd be such a blast! (I have my own little "water bottle" along with a few other tricks and treats, wink wink!)

 

[anewmac]

WOW!

A two-fer! Awesome!!

(I'm such a slacker)
no your not your BUSY!

I can't believe you did all those tastings (with extras to boot)!
You are certainly a professional! Also love the boat's a rockin' sign.
HAHA I told E you called me a professional.. and he said is that the politically correct word for ALCOHOLIC lol.

Laugh til I almost cried at the "Golden MIckey's on Booze"...any questions!!!
Ya apparently I must of woke up inbetween skits to take pics

And all I can say is I am impressed. All that liquor, three inch heels and you still do a pefect Chicken Dance! I can't do it sober.
I had lots of practice.. its at every mexican wedding i go to LOL

Drea, the soup looks drunk! LOL!!!!!! It's all blurry!

Still enjoying the TR!

Thats it Amy, everything ELSE was inibriated... I was the sober one... YA ... YA thats IT Lol

Ok- I confess, I did not have time to watch the chicken dance footage until today. And may I just say.... That was excellent!!! YOU are VERY talented after all those drinking classes! I'm, once again, impressed!

E

Thank you what can I say I have talent lol

I am HOOKED on reading your trip report! You are HI-larious!

I would love to cruise with you - you'd be such a blast! (I have my own little "water bottle" along with a few other tricks and treats, wink wink!)

Thanks welcome "aboard" glad you are enjoying!

I hope you plan on writting a trip report, Im dying to hear your tricks and treats.... Im sure Erica (zweihund) would too LOL

Trying to get another one out soon.. but with all this holiday stuff... not sure yall! (I was never good at the suspense... just comedy )

 

[MaryAz]

Great update. You make a great "taster"

 

[Alice_on_WONDERland]

Well, my first "trick n' treat" is that Santa will be dropping a LOT of little alcohol bottles in my stocking this Christmas Eve. (They fit in my Coach bag so nicely! ) How did he know that's just what I wanted...

 

[anewmac]

Great update. You make a great "taster"

Yelled over to E... "someone just called me a great "taster" from the cruise".. He said... oh ya thats just a nice way to say ALCOHOLIC lol

Well, my first "trick n' treat" is that Santa will be dropping a LOT of little alcohol bottles in my stocking this Christmas Eve. (They fit in my Coach bag so nicely! ) How did he know that's just what I wanted...

OHH nice... I love it BYOMB (Bring Your Own Mini Bar) great idea!!! (keep um comming LOL)

 

[anewmac]

9-31 Tuesday Grand K (Yes I know its Cayman, Im lazy remember)

Even with turning the clock back and hour and getting an extra hour of sleep... guess who was up bright and early, with NO hangover might I add. YUP Me.. you guessed it. Early worm gets the coffee.. with Kalua. I couldn’t sleep, darn noise we heard while on deck 1 just woke me up (you would have thought with all that alcohol I would have slept till our 2nd day at Castaway Cay LOL) Nope 530am I was up and hitting the beverage station.

I make my way back to our room and figure our laundry basket is getting filled might as well do a load. Wasn’t planning on it that’s why I brought so much stuff, but figure if I don’t do it now were all going to run out of underwear! But like any OCVP I did pack some detergent and a roll of quarters just in case. I grab our laundry and figure out the closest laundry mat on board is deck 2. Perfect I’m the 1st crazy person up at the crack of dawn and find I have the place to myself.

I do a small load of whites darks, colors whatever was in that basket I just throw it all in.(I called it the Marine Corps special cuz at home when E does laundry he just stuffs as much as he can to make loads... I think its his way of getting me mad so I tell him not to do it any more.. haha I have learned his lil game and am fine with whatever he does as long as its getting done I don’t care)

OH sorry way off on a tangent there... where was I... OH yes the laundry throw it all in. I attempted to just stay there and wait for it, to throw in the dryer so I brought the laptop and worked on my trip report. It worked out well for the wash cycle and then put the clothes in the dryer. Then realized I hadn’t charged the laptop for a bit and after rereading last nights "adventures" decided I best run back to the room to plug in and work on more.

Before long Im paragraphs in my novel (ok short story) and we get a knock at the door. I had no clue who the heck could be at our door so I was a little hesitant to answer. Then heard those lovely words, ROOM SERVICE. OH YA we did order that last night huh, vague memory trying to think of WHAT we ordered... Anyhow I yell hold on a second and try and get the darn safe open to get money out to tip. I finally open the door for the guy and in he brings a HUGE caring tray. I try and clean up our table basically throwing f/e gifts to the floor (sorry people had food to make room for) I tip him and out he goes. Right on queue the phone rings, once, twice, finally E grabs it. He no longer puts it to his ear that it slams it back on the cradle. I said wth? He said that darn mouse is way to perky this early in the am. Well apparently that DARN Mouse didn’t like getting hung up on so he called back. I got it this time, caught it in time to put to speaker for him to say Lots to do today ehhhehhee. click

Suffice to say all 3 of my mens... were still fast asleep. So I did what any nice mom would do.. I started yelling... I told them to get up its time to eat time to get ready we have stuff to do bla bla bla.... Eventually they got up, they weren’t happy about it but they got up and that’s all that mattered. We turned on the tv and I think watched Zack and Cody. I was busy slathering bagels with cream cheese, pouring coffee and Kalua. The boys had cereal and milk, and donuts, breakfast of champions.

We all get ready for the day & I send E up to get the laundry out of the dryer, and finish getting our bag ready for Grand K day. We then go and meet in promenade lounge for our 915am excursion to do the submarine tour.

We get our Sebastian sticker and follow our guide.

We had a nice lil tender over to the main land.. errr island. Along the way we see a PIRATE SHIP docked.. wth? So we had the pirate excursion booked then they canked it about a week or so before sail away. Get to Grand K and looky that theirs a PIRATE EXCURSION going on...

can you said MIFFED.. ya that was me.

Anyhow, back to the 2nd choice excursion we had to pick......We walk about 3blocks and get right on the sub. Our tour operators are somewhat funny. We see some stingrays, all kinds of different fish, and a couple shipwrecks along with some goodyears and firestones LOL.

After the hr tour, we get back to the island and find it to be sprinkling just a tad. The kids decide they want to go back to the clubs (we are really glad they like them but geez for the love of god spend some time with the people that brought ya why don’t ya LOL) We really want them to enjoy the island. So we deny their request. We start walking around the lil market area and find this sales/tour guy. He tells us he will take us to the Rum factory, Hell and 7mile beach, and the turtle farm... ok Not sure what his price was I cant remember but we talk him down a bit and the 8 of us all get on (oh ya we were with Tonya and her crew for this too... you know we are like extended family) well whatever his price (I think $50 for the 4 of us) was ended up being WAY TO MUCH for him.

We ended up grabbing a tour and regretting it… somewhat. He wasn’t bad just that we were on super speed and his “free” access to places well was like buying a bootleg video… HORRIBLE. While on our way to the 1st stop he is still trying to grab more people for the already packed van.

Finally the guys all start tell him if he doesn’t go were all getting off. He eventually takes off. 1st stop, 7mile beach.. Perfect we wanted to go there.. But well with time to swim.. oh no time for that.. he only allows us time to run off and get a pic.

Apparently we were the only ones that wanted a pic there, as the others in our bus just wanted to get to the next stop, the Rum Factory (don’t get me wrong the rest of us do to just that we want to enjoy it all!)

The Rum factory. Perfect if we didnt have the boys. They all were complaining, even E. Once we got the free rum going we all felt better... well except for the kids. WHAT, No we didn’t give them any… We did give them lots of cake though LOL. That place was a mad house too.. not an original Tortuga factory just some hole in the wall.. OH WELL we got our drink on. Thought I had done enough shots last night. Apparently that was just my warm up for today. After we were all rumed out.. ok more like tired of hearing the boys complain (and who could blame them though, right)
lil Bob Marley

Across the way our guide shows us the turtle place and were like ok where do we go in... and he said OH no you don’t go in.. You just look through the fence. YOUR KIDDING ME, RIGHT? No that was his "FREE" access to the turtle farm.

I think at this point T, Mike and E all look at each other and just start laughing. YES, we got taken on a ride all right. So we roll with it and make the best of it. What can we do now? Mike and E hold the boys up so they all can see the turtles. And before long our tour is waiting for us to move along.

Next stop HELL, I always told my friend and family I would go there. Just never thought so soon or with my whole family.

Thankfully T had her camera as mine died, and I forgot the extra battery (some drunk person forgot to charge the battery and pack the bag with the spare) So we take all the touristy type pics while we are in Hell.

Told you they were lil devils

Devil, who?

Run in the gift shop and get some post cards and mail to our moms (figured since they are church go-ers they would get a kick out of their heathen of children being in HELL LOL) I also get a shot glass, a thimble for my mom, and E a shirt. Oh and we do an exchange for some Grand K money also. Oh look at that its time to get back on the bus.

(That’s what E collects).

We do some driving and got shown some schools, and homes etc. The boys all see they look NOTHING like theirs and I think got a lil lesson on being thankful for what you have. (See we didn’t see the luxury homes, they would have been singing a different tune if so.. heck I would have too LOL.) Then we get taken back to Georgetown and end of tour. Would have been cheaper to rent a car I figured out oh well... NEXT TIME!!.

a tad cheaper back home

We hit a souvenir shop and get more stuff, shirts, xmas ornament, shot glass, the boys each get a stuffed animal.

Me and my new best friend LOL

Then we hear the I’m hungry whine. I said lets go back on ship and eat for free... but E said by the time we do that and tender back and forth it will be time to get back on the boat.. TRUE. SO where does any good parent go to feed their kids... why yes Margaretville.

What they have a slide and a pool LOL. We sit down order and the kids beg to go in the pool. How can you say no they just went on a 2hour tour that probably was totally boring for them. T and I take the boys to the pool, and the guys wait for the food and drink (Margarita for me). Eventually we pull them out of the pool and we all eat. After that we part ways with T and family.

Next Up: 7miles of swimming & Lighting up the Pirate Party

 

[MAGICFOR2]

Wow! What a day! I was thinking you were pretty brave to just jump in a van with some guy for a "tour" and then I remembered you had a Marine with you - probably a quick judge of character! Too bad you had to see the turtles through the fence!

Your new best friend - pretty strange! They had a pool in Margaritaville - that must be wild on Sat night!

Thanks for the update!

 

[TotallyAngelic]

Brilliant installment - we never got to GC because of the choppy seas so it was great to see what was on offer - and at least you managed to keep a sense of humour on your tour, even when you had to look through the fence at the turtles! I can't believe you took a photo of your laundry going round in the wash machine!