Honeymoon Cruise 2010

Every year or so, Kathy and I try to get away.  We've done, New Orleans, Paris, Puerto Rico, anywhere we can get away from the kids and be together.  We usually only go away for 4 or 5 days.  Just enough to recharge the batteries.  This years adventure was a cruise out of Miami.  Two stops in Key West and Cozumel and then a fun day of the ship.  We didn't realize it at the time how spoiled we would be from the cruise we took last summer.  You know, the 2 week Mediterranean Cruise.  Celebrity and Royal Caribbean both put Carnival to shame.  On the other hand, as long as I was with Kathy, we could have been on a rowboat and I wouldn't have cared.

Here are some pics we took.

At the dock in Miami.  They had a kind of clear glass jetbridge to board the boat.  Or would that be called a Boatbridge?

We came down from Melbourne in our boat.  I left it at a friends house out on Star Island.  There it is now.

The obligatory self shot from the deck as we were leaving.

The obligatory self shot in the main atrium.

The obligatory self shot in front of our boarding picture.

What would a Carnival Cruise be without towel animals.

I am pointing to our cabin.  Not quite steerage but a balcony would have been nice.

Ahh, beautiful Key West.  Full of nothing but well rounded and productive people.  We had heard about "Pub Crawls" on other cruises we went on and thought that it would be highly fitting to do one on Key West.  The only problem was that it started at 10 am.  Do you know how the rest of you day goes when you start getting drunk at 10 am.  Neither do I because I can't really remember it.

This is our first stop.  Kathy is with the guy who gave us the tour.  This guy had "Conch Critter" written all over him.  If you look by his left eye, you'll see something that looks like a shiner under his eye.  That's be cause it is a shiner under his eye.  A real nasty one that he woke up with that morning, in the emergency room, along with blood in his hair.  And he still had the blood in his hair for the tour.  Only in Key West.

Kathy and I weren't sure what the significance of the tree was until we read the plaque.

It says "Ernest Hemingway Pissed on this Tree".  I can't make this crap up.

And along goes the group of buzzed (this was after our second stop) tourists on their way to a bar.  I'm sure Key West never sees anything like that.

Third stop, you guessed it.  "The Flying Monkey"  Behind the bar was a wall of slushy machines loaded with every flavor of frozen booze you can think of.

When we signed up for the tour, we were thinking that they would be serving us little tiny drinks in small cups.  We were wrong.  Regular sized and very strong.  By this point we were starting to feel them.

The Obligatory self shot in front of stop 4, the Schooner Wharf.  No pain at this point at all.

The guy said this was Jimmy Buffet's first recording studio.  It may actually be but at this point, we were blasted enough to think it was Carnegie Hall.

Some souvenirs from the Crawl.

On our way to Formal Night.

Yes, we left a good chunk of the kids college fund in this machine.

I'm not really sure what this was supposed to be but it looks a little bit like a female body part.  I didn't realize we were on the Dirty Carnival Cruise.

Ok, this ones a rabbit.  But doesn't that kinda go along with the one above?

Here is the water in Cazumel.  The prettiest shade of blue you can imagine.

"Bruce"  There is a place you can stand to have you head in his mouth but it costs peso's and we were too cheap.

At least it wasn't too touristy.

From the "Hard Rock Cozulem".  No shortage of booze in these things, either.

So we had to get two more to make sure that the alcohol level was not accident.  It wasn't.  Very strong.

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