Monthly Archive for August, 2006

Our 5 Day Carnival Cruise

Heather and I took off on a 5 Day Western Caribbean Cruise aboard the Carnival Ecstasy with our good friends Jae and Dustin. We left out of Tulsa on August 26th flying to Dallas and then onto our final destination of Houston where we met Jae and Dustin. We then hopped over to the Enterprise rent-a-car station to pick up our rental and headed out to Galveston.It was a little overcast on the day of the departure which was somewhat of a bummer but not that much, I mean we were on vacation. Once we made it to Galveston it was right to the ship to begin eating and drinking our way into vacation heaven. Dustin and I had been kidding around about how quickly we would have a drink in our hand once we reached the boat, but little did we know the girls were about 10 steps ahead of us on a b-line for the bar.

Foo Foo Drinks In HandFoo Foo drinks in hand we sat down on the Lido deck for a quick snack while we waited for our rooms to be ready. We finally shoved off around 4:00 pm and were headed to Progreso, Mexico. Due to Hurricane Ernesto (which was headed straight for us) we had to switch our days in port for Cozumel and Progreso with a chance we wouldn’t get to go to Cozumel at all. We were however lucky and Ernesto took a right hand turn and left us with smooth sailing. Well, it was smooth once we all grew our sea legs.

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