Much Needed Vacation: Part 3- Cruise

Last year Dan won us a short cruise for answering 3 political questions.  We did have to pay for the taxes and some extra fees but the cruise itself was free.  He also added a four star hotel in Orlando for 2 nights before the cruise.  That is when they told us they would give us the $100 voucher for any Orlando theme parks.  This looked great- a whole vacation planned and paid for a year ahead of time.  We planned the trip for when Dan's Mom could keep the kids for us and when Luke was weaned.  She is a teacher so her spring break this year worked out perfect!  I couldn't wait for 3 days alone with my husband- no kids!  I had never been away from them before!

It didn't start out so great.  Well let's just say when we finally got to the cruise- it was great.  All the other stuff we had to go through- I'm not sure if I would do it again.  Our 4 Start hotel- yeah that was pretty bad.  Our room was moldy and the free food vouchers- were for a buffet that was seriously lacking!  Somehow we didn't get the $100 theme park voucher . . . Dan spent a couple of nights talking on the phone with the representatives from the travel agency this was all arranged through- it did NO good.  We also had to go listen to one of those crazy 90 minute time share pressure things.  We HAD to do that to get the vouchers for the cruise!  Dan was told we would NOT have to do that.  Dan's parents told us these things never actually last 90 minutes- usually it's a lot longer.  We kept telling them we had to leave for our cruise . . . boy they get ugly and mean at the end.  At least we got a nice breakfast out if it.

So here are just a couple of pics from the cruise- we relaxed, ate, did a little shopping on the island, ate, slept and Dan even did a little karaoke one night.  It was so sweet- he picked out Brown Eyed Girl just for me :)  It rained quite a bit while we were on the cruise- so we didn't get to enjoy the upper deck and the beautiful water and sunshine.  HOWEVER, it was nice to just be away to spend some quality time with my husband.