We Were Famous and Da BEACH!!!!

Every evening my sister, Amanda, and I made our way to the Karaoke Lounge. After our first song, "Killing Me Softly" by the Fugies. We became famous! We should have gotten the girl to video us, but we didn't even think of it. Because really how good is just a picture of someone singing karaoke. It just doesn't give you the full effect! I am not sure why I was singing and my sister is smiling at the camera? But we have sung that song a bunch of times together. Then Amanda did a solo. She sang, "I Will Survive!" Amanda was in an Acapella group in College, so she is used to all that stage stuff. I hadn't sung up on a stage since high school. So, I went with an easy one, "Kiss" by Prince. It's my favorite!! I had a blast! I got the crowd going at the ending when I really got into it!! It's probably a good thing that we didn't record our singing. Because that song probably wasn't too pretty!!! ha ha ha ha! I think our best duet was "Summer Nights" from Grease. I was John, and Amanda was Olivia. We had a blast with that one. We also did "Dancing Queen" by Abba, one night. During the day while we were walking around the ship, people would say, "Hey, there are those Karaoke girls!" And it wasn't just a one time thing, it happened a lot! It was so fun to be semi famous!!

The next day was an all day at Sea Day. I started out the day by going for a run. It was so windy on deck the upper deck with the track on it was closed, so I ran at the gym. I refused to gain any weight while I was on a cruise. When I got back we both got dressed and headed up to the Lido deck for some sunshine! We were some super hot sunbathing beauties!! I mean, I don't think we could be any tanner!! Whuahahahaha!! We were lounging next to some Gay Guys!! I was reading my "True Blood" book and he whipped his book out of his bag and got all excited! We started talking and had a blast. I hardly got any reading done. It was a nice relaxing day. Oh, I almost forgot, it was so windy up on deck that every time someone walked by with food or drink it would fly all over us. I got a pineapple slice in my cleavage accompanied with an drink umbrella. Amanda got some cheese in her hair, and they guy next to had gotten up to get something to eat when a lady passed and about half her drink flew on his chair! It was rather funny!!

That night was the dress up night at dinner. We got all dressed up! Sorry these pictures are horrible, they are taken with my cell phone. I got some super cheap jewelry for the dinner! I was so excited to wear it! You can't beat 2 dollars for a pack of bracelets with earnings!! Here we are! Super fine Mommas! I took all this time to do my sister's hair and ended up just flipping it! Can't say I didn't try. I sprayed her hair like a crazy hairspray woman, and it still wouldn't curl. But I think it turned out cute! For my appetizer that night I ordered the raspberry bisque. This is what I got. Our waiter's name was Coco. I busted out laughing and said, "Coco, this is it? This is all the soup is? Really? the strawberry is larger than the soup!" Our entire table started laughing! I mean really, it was a teaser! But then Coco came back with some soup. It was soooo good. My favorite by far! Our waiter then sang for us! Coco is way over on the right. He is from Bali. He works for 6 months on and then gets 2 months at home. He has three kids at home. They are all very young still. I think it would be so tough to have my husband gone for 6 months at a time. I joined in the song with my phone lighter! All the waiters had a lighter up in the air. I forget what song they sang. It was really good though. Dinner was fantastic! I was loving not cooking or cleaning!

Since that night was the dress up night there were photographers everywhere! And you'll never guess who we saw? She was looking mighty fine! The MULLET LADY!!! And yes, she is a woman! Just look at those lovely locks!! That is her woman in front of her. They had matching outfits! Anyway, we then went to watch a dancing show. During the show I was falling asleep so we retired to our room. Where we were greeted with this....... It's a PIG!! Or it could be Belle!! It kinda looked like her too!! We hit the sack and the woke up to Cozumel, Mexico!!! Waaahoooo!!! There were other boats at the dock when we got there. Our ship is on the left side. The weather man said it was going to be cloudy and thunderstorms, but if this is cloudy with a chance of rain......I'll take it. The port we docked at was called Puerta Maya. We then got in a cab and headed to Nachi Cocom, a private beach resort! Gerry was our first Cab driver. He was very sane in his driving efforts. Can't say that bout the guy who gave us a ride home!! I was screaming, "Help Me!" in Spanish from the back seat!! LOL They have separate lanes for scooters. Huts surrounded by jungle! Nachi Cocom is the farthest beach on the island. The sign for the beach club. The name of the beach club was taken away by the hurricane! Cool stone stuff as we entered! The road to our beach relaxation!!! And we made it!! Can you believe that water? I did not edit that picture one bit! That is straight out of the camera!! It's so beautiful there! That is me posing by our hut for the day! We got served what ever we wanted when ever we wanted it! It was all inclusive so we could order what ever!! It was soooo wonderful! They had hammocks and a massage center! Me relaxing! Our toes! Cool looking boat! We then did some crazy fun jet skiing! I started out driving, but I wasn't wild enough, so we switched places. The salt water was burning our eyes. It was fun though! We had a good time! We floated and swam! We ate lunch up at the restaurant. We had a fabulous view! There was a pool and hot tub there with a swim up bar! It was pretty cool! The walk way back to our chairs. Our food, it was fajitas and it was awesome!!! Amanda enjoyed her food, then got a nice little rub down! While she did that I lounged in the hammocks! My view from the hammocks........ It was wonderful!!! Just the sound of the ocean!! It was almost time to go shopping!!! We took one last dip in the ocean. Goodbye beach.........sigh........it was so nice!! We needed two days in Cozumel, if not more! We hit the town for a bit of shopping then headed back to the ship..............

I'm BACK!!!!!

I am back from my very first Cruise! My sister, Amanda, and I went on the Carnival Triumph. We went on a shorter cruise to Cozumel, Mexico. It was super fun! The day before we were to arrive at port, my sister flew into New Orleans, and I picked her up. We stayed in a hotel for the night. Where we were so super excited about the trip! We screamed like little school girls when we finally were free woman in the car headed to the hotel! Then we had some fun! Me feeling free of responsibility for a few days! You know what's coming next........... YEAH!!!!! I am going to PARTY!!!! Cause you gotta "Jump.....for your love! Jump in......" are you singing? "Canon BALLLLLL!" This next picture is why I never made cheerleading!! ha ha ha ha Oh yeah, I am so super fine!! ha ha ha ha ha!! Crazy woman! I was so excited! I am not sure what my elbows were doing! Then these next pictures are why my sister was a cheerleader in high school. Gosh, after two kids and look at her go!! Yo go girl! We are free woman for five days!!! Hooray!!! We tried a group thing but we didn't seem to be to grand at jumping at the same time. It ended up with a lot of spoof pictures and a lot of laughter! I think I only almost peed my pants once......or twice.......The next morning we got up early and got breakfast and headed out to the Port!! I was so excited to get on my very first Cruise Ship! We made it on and got some lunch! It was very good!! The Ship reminded me a lot of a Casino. With the funky carpet colors and all the decorations. After we got a bite to eat we ventured around the upper decks. I got a lot of pictures of the New Orleans Port. The "Whale Tale". Some blue mattresses and rows and rows of boxes of alcohol. There was tons of that!! "Who Dat? Who Dat standing in front of New Orleans?" Dat be ME!!! During the entire cruise that is all we heard, "Who Dat?" Everyone was pretty excited about the Saints. My sister on deck! I was so excited!! This was my very first cruise! The beautiful Mississippi River! While we were up on deck, we heard this woman talking really loudly! We looked over and saw the MOTHER OF ALL MULLETS!!! Just look at those curls!!! She was jumping around talking about how she didn't bring a camera because she didn't want any evidence of what happened on the ship!! Don't worry Lady I caught ya!! We then got to wonder around the Ship and then head to our rooms. The art work on the boat reminded me and my sister of some great puffy paint work. We then got to our room. My sister said it was very roomy. Don't mind the "orange" color to all the pictures, the room really was just orange! ha ha ha! Our beds! Our makeup station!! That will come into play later one!! It's a great story! The Loo. The shower! It all reminded me of a camper. We then headed up on deck one last time to see us push off the dock! Amanda calling home and telling the kids she was on a big boat! Goodbye Bridge! Cozumel Here We COME!!! Just look at all those blue chairs!!! The ship made a complete 360! It was pretty impressive! Two Super Hot Mommas ready for a vacation! Canal Street, I think...... Goodbye bridge! Cozumel or BUST! The sun started setting. There was a rainbow in the clouds!! It's to the right of the sun! The sun setting, the Whale Tail, and New Orleans! We then sauntered back inside the boat. We hung out for a bit before dinner. We watched as we passed some other ships on the Mississippi River. I almost forgot the most fun part of the trip!! We got to MUSTER!!! This is my sister Mustering. Isn't Amanda one super fine Musterer. It was very informal. We were first there and so we were shoved in the back. We couldn't see a single demonstration. So, I took pictures and facebooked. I figured I know how to swim.......or something like that!! We then hit up the dinning room. After dinner we went back to our room until it was time for some Karaoke. We had a little visitor in our room!! My first towel animal!!! He was so cute!!! I will blog about Karaoke tomorrow!! My sister and I became FAMOUS!!!!!