Cruising the Caribbean

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20:45 - For my first adult vacation, I decided to take a Caribbean cruise with Rob on Carnival Cruise Lines. As much as I would love to backpack across a continent, I had one week to make something happen. Plus, cruises are amazing fun. We set sail on September 9th from Baltimore to visit the wide world of the Eastern Caribbean.

Our embarking photo. Don't we look so cute?

The view from our 'interior' room

We originally order an interior room, which usually consists of a small room in the bottom of the ship. However, we got extremely luck and got a room with a view for an interior room price.Now, our view included the ship's life rafts, but we were not complaining. We got to open the door and everything. It was a steal of a deal.

Before we made landfall, we had a bunch of fun on the ship. We had two days to kill at sea, and we made good use of them. Our number one priority consisted of attending every trivia contest Carnival hosted. Focus Foxies, they hosted a bunch; I mean three or four a day. We had plenty of opportunities to smack people around with the amount of highly important facts we knew. 

We had our hearts set on winning the glorified prize of a Ship on a Stick! This was no ordinary trophy. It had a cruise ship on it and was made of 24 carat solid gold plastic. Focus Foxies, this was not a trivial prize; it was the prize. It was no easy feat to win one. We were up against teams who had 7 people on them, but we prevailed. By the end of just one day, we had won 3 ships: two for dominating trivia and one for an Elton John performance. By the end of the trip, we won 5 ships and 2 bottles of champagne. We were that awesome. True story.

Our first dinner on-board

I have to say that our second priority was eating a much food as humanly possible. Did you know, Focus Foxies, that Carnival has a sushi bar that you can go and get a bunch of sushi from? Amazing. Combined with every dinner being a three course masterpiece, we were stuffed non-stop. Just in case we were not, they had 24-hour pizza and ice cream places. There would be no way to avoid food on a cruise ship. So, pro-tip: leave your diets at home. We don't have room for them on the boat; we have too much food.

We felt restless after two days at sea. We could not wait to see what adventures our first stop in Grand Turk would bring.

A gigantic flag was hung in the atrium to  remember September 11