No Longer the SHORTEST Trip Report Ever....5/27..Pictures too!

[justmestace]

We may not have had an ice bucket with ice...but our room steward did make some interesting towel (blanket?) animals. Definitely some of the biggest I've ever seen:

 

[justmestace]

And...magnetic door signs from our creative friends:

Images made smaller to protect the identities of the innocent. And the not-so-innocent.

 

[justmestace]

Oops, forgot one.

 

[kikipug]

We may not have done it all....but as far as I'm concerned, the Blabbermouth group was a lot more about QUALITY than QUANTITY. We didn't do it all, but I've never known a group of people, and strangers at that, who cared more about eachother, and who had more fun getting to truly know eachother.

In my best "Sally Field" voice...

"She likes us... she really, really likes us!"

(I couldn't agree more!!)

 

[WDWLVR]

Hey I see my door there!


Our room steward made blanket animals as well. We would have one during the day and a different one at night. My favorite was a large dog that had a blanket body and a towel head.

 

[professorandmom]

justmestace

Are those rubber bands on the bottom of the "ships a rockin" door sign?????
Barb

 

[justmestace]

justmestace

Are those rubber bands on the bottom of the "ships a rockin" door sign?????
Barb

Yep. The story is that someone once used a rubber band on a door knob as a "signal" to not enter the room. Kind of like a personal "do not disturb" sign.......and I bet those people are wishing that the story had never gotten told!!

 

[tinksdad]

I LOVE that story!!!


SNAP!!

 

[RachelTori]

I LOVE that story!!!


SNAP!!

Me too!!!

 

[ohiominnie]

Oops, forgot one.

What an absolutely HYSTERICAL and CREATIVE idea!!!!!

 

[Dancind]

Yep. The story is that someone once used a rubber band on a door knob as a "signal" to not enter the room. Kind of like a personal "do not disturb" sign.......and I bet those people are wishing that the story had never gotten told!!

Considering the whole thing was a fantasy in the mind of a 13 year old, it certainly has legs! All the rubber bands were gone by the end of the cruise. OK, fess up, who took them?

 

[justmestace]

Considering the whole thing was a fantasy in the mind of a 13 year old, it certainly has legs! All the rubber bands were gone by the end of the cruise. OK, fess up, who took them?

Not me...didn't need one...just ask poor Jay. I TOLD you I didn't do anything on the cruise!

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

Oh Stacey... I thoroughly enjoyed your trip report! I laughed so hard I had tears and almost peed my britches! I had to stay up even later than usual because it was like a book you just can't put down! You are hilarious girl! Thanks for sharing your trip with us!

I realized then that we weren't the absolute last one, because four people had gotten OFF the tender, and were told that they had better hurry to get back. I'm only guessing that they had thought of something they needed to buy...???..... I don't think I'd want to cut it that close.

This part from cozumel... that must mean you were on the same tender back that I was on (after my shopping trip alone- DH had gone back with the kids earlier) because I got on when those 4 got off the tender. They are probably more famous than they know- I mentioned them in my trip report also! I guess we were both amazed they'd get off at that time. LOL

Anywho- so we were on the same tender. See what I mean by "so close yet so far away"? All these times I was surrounded by fellow blabbermouths and didn't realize it. So I was in my red shirt and red matching cap... did ya see me? huh? didya? huh LOL


Ps. about your son and the scaring of people by letting them know there was a barracuda out there... what you said about people getting back on the boat after hearing that. Um, that would be me! Well maybe not now that I've had a "little" more experience snorkeling and such. But my very first time, many moons ago, I was snorkeling with DH in Cancun and someone did that very same thing- they hollered about seeing a barracuda. You never saw someone swim as fast as I did and crawl out of that water never to get back in it. I bet I was moving like cartoon fast. Dh was laughing at me. LOL

 

[scuba diver]

Considering the whole thing was a fantasy in the mind of a 13 year old, it certainly has legs! All the rubber bands were gone by the end of the cruise. OK, fess up, who took them?

Yes, the 13 year old does have legs!

 

[chip&dale&fun]

Friday.....our last full day and Second Scoop in our Double Scoop of Castaway Cay....

Of all the mornings on the ship, it just figures that this is the one where I really think I'm relaxed enough to sleep in. Maybe I'd really simply packed on enough extra poundage to hybernate like a bear........

But I did arise...I was really anxious to get that second chance at the Seahorse Snorkel. I'd said for years that despite all the places we've snorkeled, I thought that I had seen the most colorful fish in the Bahamas.....but I sometimes wondered if time had clouded my memory. Time and margaritas.

I wasn't disappointed, and I was right. The reef that the catamaran takes you to is very shallow, and I could see that if we'd had those rough seas that I had wanted to rock me to sleep, it would have been a little treacherous over that patch of coral that appears out of nowhere. But again, we had perfectly calm seas.
I can't recall any one place on any of our snorkel trips where I'd seen that many fish or so many varieties. My camera and I were in hog heaven.
I found a barracuda out there that was as long as my arm, so I followed him around for a while, making sure I got a good shot of him. Or twenty shots.

My dancing teenage son took great delight in telling every novice snorkeler in the water that there was a barracuda out there....just to see how many swam back to the boat as fast as their little legs and arms would take them.
I don't know where he gets that sick sense of humor.......

Loving the trip report........I have a favor for the second CC Day - My rool of fim for the snorkel addventure had disappeared...First time ever I lost a roll of film....thought I had lost all of Sam'd cards, but was wrong...Anyway - any chance you have any shots of Sam underwater????? Thanks....We realize we have none of us on Castaway Cay - other than one Mary took of us with one of our favourtie cast members (yes, Jim a bartender)....All of the ones of us together were on the missing roll???? Grrrrrr.

 

[chip&dale&fun]

And...magnetic door signs from our creative friends:

Images made smaller to protect the identities of the innocent. And the not-so-innocent.

yeah - yeah - yeah.....

 

[chip&dale&fun]

Next up....parasailing. I have the smartest husband in the whole world.

He didn't go.

Now this I have pictures of....

 

[justmestace]

Oh Stacey... I thoroughly enjoyed your trip report! I laughed so hard I had tears and almost peed my britches! I had to stay up even later than usual because it was like a book you just can't put down! You are hilarious girl! Thanks for sharing your trip with us!


This part from cozumel... that must mean you were on the same tender back that I was on (after my shopping trip alone- DH had gone back with the kids earlier) because I got on when those 4 got off the tender. They are probably more famous than they know- I mentioned them in my trip report also! I guess we were both amazed they'd get off at that time. LOL

Anywho- so we were on the same tender. See what I mean by "so close yet so far away"? All these times I was surrounded by fellow blabbermouths and didn't realize it. So I was in my red shirt and red matching cap... did ya see me? huh? didya? huh LOL

I'm glad you didn't see me on that tender! I would have been the one who was red, white and blue.
Red from sunburn
White from being covered in salt from the ocean
Blue from being the saddest person in the world, for having just erased all my pictures!

I was too busy contemplating suicide to notice who was around me.

 

[justmestace]

Loving the trip report........I have a favor for the second CC Day - My rool of fim for the snorkel addventure had disappeared...First time ever I lost a roll of film....thought I had lost all of Sam'd cards, but was wrong...Anyway - any chance you have any shots of Sam underwater????? Thanks....We realize we have none of us on Castaway Cay - other than one Mary took of us with one of our favourtie cast members (yes, Jim a bartender)....All of the ones of us together were on the missing roll???? Grrrrrr.

Not underwater, only on the boat going over and back....at least I don't think I do...let me look. I do think I caught him in the background of one of my shots...but that's all.

 

[chip&dale&fun]

Not underwater, only on the boat going over and back....at least I don't think I do...let me look. I do think I caught him in the background of one of my shots...but that's all.

Thanks....I realize I have no shots of Sam and I at CC.....sad...
He has taken some of me.....underwater, but mine of him are lost...thanks for checking.