Land Lubbers Once More

Well, the shortened Anniversary cruise to nowhere is over. :( We had a great time and it was super nice just to relax and not do anything for a few days. We both agreed that it was easily better then just laying around the house since at home we'd still feel like we needed to run errands or get stuff done.

As for the cruise itself, we did all the crui-sy things like lay by the pool, eat, watch cheesy revue shows, eat, gamble, and eat. We have no pictures, so there are none to post since we didn't bother carrying our camera around the boat. It was just us and our blue card. The biggest downside of the cruise was the super long 3+ hrs it took to just plain get on the boat Wed. It was late arriving in Galveston (as in more than just the 2 days already) and people were still getting off when we arrived at noon. So everyone was standing around in line waiting to get checked in forever (and an hours worth of that was outside in the heat, tres horrible!!).

The first night at dinner it was us, an older couple on their honeymoon, and a gang of the white trashiest folks ever. The trash was complaining loudly and with many four letter words thrown in that they had a group of 8 and were supposed to be sitting together and not split between two tables. So the already frazzled waitstaff (lots of last minute bookings on a $99 special apparently since there were a lot of cancellations) was trying to deal with them as best as possible but they were half drunk and stupid to begin with, so nothing was good enough for them. Best part (at least for me who found it funny) was how one of the girls spent the rest of the dinner with lots of "yes, sirs" and "no, ma'am" with proper table manners painfully trying to appear genteel after the initial ghetto fabulous display. Lucky for us and the other couple, we got to enjoy the rest of the dinners without them since they were reseated at a table for 8 by themselves the following night. YAY!!

Our overall thoughts on the boat: you get what you pay for. It's a very average boat, with average amenities, for an average price. So we enjoyed it because all we wanted to do was get away and it would work if you want the same. But if you are looking for a real nice vacation, we'd recommend you upgrade to a different cruise.