The Re-do

In all the hustle and bustle of moving to Colorado I completely forgot to post about our

"Re-do Cruise".

Or "The Splendor Round 2- This time it's personal."

First off- we had T-shirts made. What started as a joke became reality thanks to my boss' husband who is a graphic designer. After hearing a little bit about our story this is what he came up with:

Which we of course all loved. We got them printed up and they looked so good! Little would be know that MANY other people would be on their re-do the same week as us.

I still have a hard time imagining this- we got a FREE cruise, go anywhere within 2 years and we got a dollar for dollar match of what was spent. And so many of us chose the SAME BOAT and the SAME WEEK as last year?!?! Are you all crazy???

Yes I believe so.

So for those of you that have no idea what I'm talking about right now .....

Google Carnival Splendor November 2010 for some light reading to catch up....

Anyway... everything turned out fine. It was really strange that first day walking back onto the boat and just walking around the boat again... in the light.

All and all it was a good time and we had a lot of fun. Once we woke up that next morning and we weren't being run out of our rooms by smoke a lot of the nervousness went away.

Here we are in the airport getting ready to fly to Long Beach so we can get on the boat. Don't we look so thrilled to be going on a free vacation???

So last year we spent oh.... 90% of the cruise sitting at this table. There is one emergency light that worked right above the table so we all huddled around it and played endless amounts of card games and just sitting.....

Our first day off the boat we spent in Cabo. We got to go to a really nice resort and spend the day on their private beach and eat lunch there. It was really fun and the food was great. (WAY better than eating the lunch buffet on the cruise)

Chris was not wanting to sit by me because I wanted to be in the shade and he wanted to get tan or something.... I don't know.

After 2 days in Cabo we went to Puerto Vallarta. This was where Chris and I went on our Honeymoon so it was fun to be back there and see it again. The water isn't nearly as clear as Cabo but I liked it more. We went to a private beach for the day. It was really fun. They had kayaking and paddle boarding, we all had a lot of fun. Oh and, mom was a little slow with the picture on this one so we had all turned around besides Telden.

So one day we are sitting in Bingo and I see this older couple a few rows away and I can just barely make out their T-shirts and I was dying of laughter. They were obviously on the boat last year as well and so my mom went and asked if she could take a picture of their shirt... It's kind of hard to read but this is what it says:

Top 10 Things that should never happen on a cruise ship:

1. Opening your cabin door to and seeing crew members running down the hall in life jackets and they were "300% sure it's not an emergency"

2. Using an ice bucket for a toilet

3. Taking a cold shower in the dark (I can relate, it was SO cold it sent you into shivers for an hour)

4. SPAM for breakfast, lunch and dinner

5. Cocktail hour is a mini-bar scavenger hunt

6. Blackhawk helicopter food drops

7. Entertainment is squeezing 20 friends into a cabin

8. Hear the words "Fireless Smoke" (that one really made me laugh)

9. Also "There has been a delay, the rescue tug boat has broken down."

10. Oh and "Your cruise has officially been terminated" on day 2 of 7

Of all the T-shirts we saw theirs really cracked us up. It was so funny because there were literally times we would be walking around the boat and one of us would say hey I recognize them.

Gotta love the towel animals. The elephant was my favorite.

This was the last formal night, Friday. We had gone to the lounge afterwards to see comedians. Overall the entertainment was Meh, one night there was a prop comic and he was hilarious other than that pretty lame.

But all in all is was a good re-do and it was nice to be with the family and see everyone before I went off to Colorado to be with Chris.

Honestly, I would be just fine to not go on another cruise ever again.

Just sayin.