| For all of you who may be interested, this is the "story" of our 10 year anniversary cruise on the Royal Caribbean Cruise line, Navigator of the Seas ship. We had a rough start. It took nearly four hours to get from the airport to the ship. This cruise line just does not have a very good system for transfers and check in. That being said we had a great time. The ship had a rock climbing wall, inline roller skating, an ice skating rink, mini-golf and all the other usual things. We got to try them all (except rock climbing). Having my nephew, Jason, with was a real treat. At 18 years old, he is a bit of a ladies man. He was with a different girl about every five minutes. He could never remember their names and referred to them by the state they were from. |
| It all started with the limo ride. The kids were really excited so the ride to the airport was interesting to say the least. What was more interesting was the ride from the hotel to the airport the next day. Jason's conversation about pornography had our shuttle bus driver so enthralled that he blew a stop sign right in front of a police officer (and he did not even get pulled over). |
| Dinner was an interesting affair. As you can see Jason and Austin got a bit tired on my insistence that we take before dinner photos, but they had no problem being photographed with our wait staff. The best part of dinner was listening to Austin and Jason give the waitress a hard time and all of Jason's antics. He would say some pretty interesting things and at first Bill would be quick with the comebacks. Joshua was the one that surprised us the most with his wit and sense of humor. Some of the things he said were even more amusing than Austin and Jason combined. Every once in a while Corinne would ask Jason if he remembered to take his medicine....always at the right moment. |
| Our first stop was a beach stop in Haiti. I took a pic of the ship from the beach. The next stop was Ocho Rios and it was beautiful. I could easily spend more time there. We had a small tour of the town and got to climb the waterfalls. The kids climbed all the way to the top. I got bored half way thru and and stopped the climb. Unfortunately we have no pictures from this, the most beautiful part of Ocho Rios. |
| I wasn't too impressed with Georgetown, Grand Cayman. The first three pictures were from the town of "Hell". Joshua was the only one that allowed me to take a devil pic of him, so I took two. It was always easy to get a pic of Joshua. We visited a turtle farm and Corinne was a bit grossed out by the fact that they eat the turtles (I was too). |
| I loved Cozumel and have decided we need to vacation there sometime. We got to play with the dolphins, you will notice no pics of Josh and me, we did not like our pics. Unfortunately we did not make it to the ruins...far too little time. |
| The first four pics are from the ice show we attended on board. There are several pics I made Joshua pose for and then some from interior of the ship. Of course we have the mini golf pics and the rock climbing wall. Our stateroom attendant was very skilled at making towel animals and leaving them as a surprise for Corinne (using her sunglasses). She would be thrilled to see them after dinner each night. |
| All good things must come to an end. Sunset pics off our balcony, Austin with a girl, Christine, he met. She lives about an hour away. And Jason with just a few of the girls he met. Seeing him in action was a riot. He was doing the bump and grind in the disco. He tried swing dancing with a girl who did not know how to dance and went straight for a "trick" called the straddle and promptly dropped her. We tried to explain to him that this move takes more skill from the female and this poor girl had no idea what she was doing. The girls were so ga ga over him they would be bothering Joshua with giving him notes to give to Jason and calling on the phone. Even the one he dropped still hung around. And by the last night he finally remembered names |
