Eventually we found him and met up with another couple and a family of 3. Then proceeded to wait as he was just the middle man and our drivers were still on their way. Eventually our guides came and we went in one car and the other 5 in another. Our tour orignally started at 815 but I got an email moments before we sailed away that said it needed to be changed to 730.
Even better we thought, as we would get back earlier to shop and kids could go swimming on the boat if they wanted. Well we ended up not leaving till 830.. Everyone was a lil pissed by then, we all could have slept another 30mins, or chewed our breakfast at least LOL.
That does stink, extra sleep is something that's hard to come by on a cruise!
Oh well we were on ur way. Our driver/tour guide Michael, was very quiet, almost shy, maybe not awake yet?
Haha! that's what my money is on!
Once we got to the zipline and were all signed up, it was no turning back we told the boys. J was all for it, but P was a lil timid still.
Woo hoo, go P!
I was miffed that they make you put your cameras away so I knew this is where they are going to kill us in the picture/video prices (boy did they).
Boo Hiss!
The 1st zip line was short basically to get your footing/handeling down. P LOVED it as did everyone else. We did 7 lines total, and the last one both boys turned themselves to go backwards and I went no hands, but E he's mister go by the book and follow the rules so he didnt do anything cool LOL.
How does that saying go, something like you can take the man out of the military but you can't take the military out of the man? LOL @ E. 7 lines, really awesome!!! Did i tell you I was impressed with your excursion choices??
Once we were done it was time to haggle for pics. They had 22 pics taken and 4 videos one of each of us. These were the BEST ONES... (my suggestion is take a camera and smuggle it on.)
Mmmm..yeah not the best work. I understand photographing an activity like ziplining is difficult but I feel ya on these. Ya pretty much *have* to get them though.
They wanted $30 a person = $120 for 1 cd, not like they were going to put them on 4 different cd's either. So we haggled with them and got it for $60 still killed me after I spent $119 for each adult and $85 for each kid total $408
Whoa...yeah that is crazy $120 for 22 pics and 4 vids? Ouch! good job haggling it down. Who has the poker face in the family (let me guess, you Drea!) I totally suck at haggling. They can read me, they know I will buy them anyway. Sucker tattooed on my forehead, ya know.
I tried for $50 but he wouldnt budge so E just said fine. Then they had the ordasity to have a tip jar at the register.. sorry charlie! P got a shirt that said ME Tarzan for $15 they wouldnt haggle that one either.
LOL don't get Ron started on tip jars. He hates tip jars at counters (for something like this-a shop where you aren't getting service, just checked out) and drive-throughs. He gets fired up just seeing the tip line on the receipt!
We loved zip lining though, feeling like we were flying over the rainforest... my scardycat P enjoyed it the most. E who never says anything was smiling ear to ear the whole time, and J couldnt stop saying that was AWESOME. Overall minus the price gauge, a great experience, another thing crossed off our bucket list.
It really does look amazing. I look forward to trying the "jungle" zipline experience to see how it measures up to my over-water-super-high-up-zipline experience in Labadee!
ah, I'm at work I'll have to watch at home. Hate that.
***Edit Another great video production, love the music, and J's "That was Awesome!!"
We then got back into the vans and they took us to Wellington Well. Our guides told us about the trees, and land etc. It was pretty interesting (again dont ask me about it... hmm wonder where the kids get their study habits in one ear out the other LOL).
A well, huh? O-kayyyyyy....
Then we drove about 30mins to Turners Beach.
Postcard perfect
Oh yeah....stunning!!!
We were shuffled to an upper patio and had our drink order taken sodas, beer, or rum punch. Boys all had sprites, I went for an island beer the Wadadli. Equivalent to a Corona maybe I would say. Not my fav.
Interesting!
A while later our food came. Hamburgers were drier then dry like they had been cooking them for hours. My chicken was pretty tasty, I had origianlly wanted to fish burger but they were out... guessing someone didnt go fishing LOL. All had a choice of fries or rice. I chose rice.. when it came with fries I was told they were out... glad they had an endless supply of drinks for me to make it up on.
Looks yummy!
Once we were done eatting, E went and got us beach chairs you just have to tell them your with the tour or its $10 each. He got 4 but we really only needed 2, oh well we gave the other 2 to our excurtion friends who didnt get one.
What? you mean you didn't chair hog up two extra lounges for your boys who will never sit in them? LOL! <- that whining and complaining comes to you courtesy of Cruise Critic...where I am apparently spending way too much time!
Es going to kill me but he was sitting on the beach relaxing when all of a sudden a huge wave came from no where and knocked him over .. I told him it looked like he was trying to do some type of gymnastics/yoga LOL
Ha! Rogue wave, right?
E tried to get the boys to take a pic like our last cruise when we were in Cozumel, but apparently either E's gotten weaker or the boys have gotten bigger.. Im going with both.
This Cruise Last Cruise
Judging by that beefcake "E starring as.....The Rock" pic you posted on FB, I am going to go with the kids got bigger. Plus I don't want to be on the bad side of a Marine with big guns and a big gun, KWIM???
Our driver dropped us off a few steps from the souvieor market place.
We were now on a mission to find tshirts for E, shot glass for me, thimble for my mom, post cards to mail and whatever else the boys may want. E found some and they didnt have his size in the type of design he wanted so he talked them into taking him upstairs to where they do the tshirt press and picking exactly what he wanted...
That's pretty cool. I remember back in the 70's my dad used to take me to a T-shirt shop where you picked the design and they would make it for you right there. I thought it was just the neatest thing, especially when I could get the ones with the glittery designs. LOL!!!
When E went to check out the lady told him $42.. and he paid, didnt try and bargen or anything I would have said how about $40 even at least.. actually I would have said how bout $30 and tried to meet in the middle no he was fine paying that. Said they needed it more then we did, ok.
Yea, we did the same thing in Haiti.
I went and found my shot glass, moms gift and post cards got them all labled and ready to mail. Then J took a turn for the worse and was beyond tired so he and E headed back to the ship.
P and I went to mail the cards and find an xmas orniment. Also I wanted to find a cute dress, but couldnt find any that I really liked so this women draggs me to the main store and tells me she has one in the size/type/color I want cuz the one I had in my hand was 2 sized 2 small. When we get there is not the same color/type/style/SIZE most importantly LOL. So I say no thanks and she keeps pushing it on me. I said I cant even fit into this my left thigh cant either. She keeps going on and on for me to buy it, I say no 1)it has a hole I found & 2) I cant fit in it 3)its short I was looking at long. Sorry trying to be really nice about it and thanking her but if you dont have my size you cant help me. Thats when things got ugly. She is cursing at me and trying to hand me the dress so I have to take it I finally tell P to turn around and lets go. Some other tourist follows me and said she was having the same issue.. it is almost scary.
O...M...G that is crazy! That would have freaked me out! and I thought they were pushy in Cozumel ...
Once that was done, we hit up the B-Hive bar for a few libations and to cool my nerves. Its the 1st bar right off the pier.
They had a deal going on 2 beers for $5 for the Wadadilis and I got P a shirley temple
And all is right with the world again.....
Bartender asked him if he wanted to have a beer also (jokinly) and P looked at me like REALLY I can? ha no we just like to mess with ya LOL.
Nice try P!!!
The bar had free wifi so I took the time to check emails and log into facebook it felt like a link back to the world that way.. plus its nice to rub into everyones face while they are on their way to work and Im on my way to drunkeness LMAO. Im sure some of you saw those post/pics
My face was quite rubbed, thanks.....
P & I went up to the lido to get some chow and a DOTD (today was the Riviera Delight). Then headed back to our room to watch for walk/run of shamers. As the moments passed we kept waiting and waiting and not one single runner, I was so bummed that was pretty much the #1 reason why I booked a balcony to begin with. Seriously that and coffee alone in the am.
That is a bummer. I made sure we picked the side of the boat that overlooks the port too in hopes of catching me some red-carpet WOS'ers.
hope I'm not dissappointed! I gotta figure with 3x the number of peeps on the Magic, the Allure is bound to have 3X as many last minute panicked runners, right???
I then talked the boys into taking some pics, nice casual jean pics. Was hoping they had a white or black background like last night but nothing, they had some funky backgrounds, so the boys picked out a few to do.
Aw, you guys look great but you're right that bright ol background is kindof busy behind ya.
We found out that on Nassau day they will have the nice white backgrounds so we will be making the boys do another session then. This is in the atrium up 2 decks.
Wow, Nassau too? Where *didn't* your cruise go? I swear Carny has the best Caribbean itineraries!
P went to his club where they were having a dance in the 70s club, then Karaoke, and he skipped out for watching Twilight with his buddies and watched Grown Ups on the big screen, then... wait for it, wait for it.. Iron Man.
Iron Man...? you don't say....!
Eventually we made our way to the Posh dinning room for dinner ourselves. (I swear it sounds like all we did we eat but there was a lot of time in between since we didnt catch the show they had. Since the 1st one was so bad.)
Dinner was good E had some type of steak maybe pork?
Yup I'd go with the other white meat!
I had a pasta
For dessert bread pudding... not what I was thinking
Not what you were thinking it was...or not what you were thinking of having?
We caught up with the Fun Patrol in the main theater doing a game of Liars club, basically you try and figure out which of the 3 fun patrol people is lying and which it telling the truth. Its really cute game, and we learned a lot about them, their jobs. Lots of audience participation which I love games/shows like that. Point for Freddy since E and I were rolling.
That does sound like fun, kind of like Clue? E did it with the beer bottle on the Lido? Not quite? don't laugh at me it's 4:30 AM and I'm getting quite punchy!
When that was over we went to the lobby to hear some music, and get a drink. The bartender and I started chatting as she was from Croatia where my grandfather came from. She took a pic of me and E
We asked her for a refill were told our sign and sail cards werent working. So after we finished and they gave us a recepit via old paper format we hit up guest service to see what the issue was.
Apparently our Disney Visa didnt like that we were sailing on Carnival with Freddy and was revoking the charges.. lmao no just that Chase visa thought it was stolen. We called them and let them know it was all good we were the ones using it and they stated all would be good, or so we thought...
Uh oh....
I went to get J from his club and E finished up with guest services. We met back in the room and P came in around 12am. Party animal wonder where he gets it from lol. It was lights out as we had another fun filled early morning tmrw.
This is what we came home to (no Ellen I didnt kiss him... tonight that is...
Smooches!!! (im my best Jay from Clerks voice)
UP NEXT: Taking a Bath, before a Walk O'Shame
W00t! Walk of shamers, coming right up!! They are gong to be coming right up, correct...as in before next month...
I can't believe it was that hard to get a towel. You're right - everyone on Disney would have bent over backward to help you. 
I can't believe what they tried to charge you for the pics!
this board!
