All Aboard

Here was my home for the past week -- the beautiful, huge, luxurious "Carnival Freedom". Seven days was enough to get very used to all the pampering, non-stop eating and delightfully warm days and nights at sea! This is the 4th cruise that Paul & I have been on and it was very, very enjoyable. Just us and a few other passengers...

I mean, a few other thousand passengers! This was like living on a floating city! or maybe it should be considered its' own country since there were sooooooo many nationalities represented between both the passengers and then all the ship staff. But even with this many people onboard, it was still so much fun! We departed from Fort Lauderdale, FL and our ports of call were Key West, FL, Grand Cayman and Jamica with 2 "at sea" days. A perfect itinerary. We had never been to any of these places and I love seeing and experiencing new sights and cultures.

So here is the only other passenger that we really were excited to be traveling with! Heidi was the highlight of our trip! This was a business trip for her since she was one of the 5 scrapbook presenters. She taught her class 4 times and even did an extra, special inking demonstration one night. She had flown directly from Beijing to Florida which took a full 24 hours and she was pretty wiped out by the time she arrived but she was a trooper and was able to squeeze in lots of sleeping, teaching, visiting and babysitting her parents! The only thing that would have made the trip any better would have been to have everyone else in the family with us! She is doing another one of these cruises next January... anyone available?