Cruse - Day 1: Miami

Saturday January 8, 2011
9:48 pm

I don’t know if it is lame to go to bed at a quarter to nine on your vacation… but I was up at 7 and didn’t really sleep last night…(see the early morning post from before we left… :D). We are on a ship (using the pop cultural reference to what we are floating on is a call to be punched ((according to Stefan that is…))…). It is an amazing humungous and beautiful ship.

We managed to find the Key to cursing (at least as far as the Epic is concerned). That is you get the cheapest room, its small but to be honest it really is beautiful… it’s been designed quite well. Then as SOON as you get on… like RIGHT away go to the spa. There is a special room that only those that are in get to use. It has a therapeutic pool and lounge chairs and a little deck outside… and they only sell 60 couple’s the ticket in. This means out of 4000 people you have your own aria with only 120 other people. There are other privet arias but they cost WAY more. It’s such a nice aria.

There is SOOO much food. I think Stefan is in Buffet heaven. Oh another thing to remember (though really it should be a no brainer… pre-book shows online… the lineup for booking shows was crazy long today.) I like this place… though I feel there are a few too many extra things you have to pay to use. I am disappointed that I have to pay for Yoga…   but that’s just the way they do it…

Online there are complaints about the pools being small… they are but I think when designing the ship they took a different view of things and made the top deck a water park instead… which I like. Haven’t played in it yet but today was a lot of exploring.

What we did do today was see The Blue Man Group. They are amazing. Lots of different little things playing with sound, light, colure and the audience. It was really good. There are more shows to come… things can only get better from here and today was perfect. I love cruses!! :D