Day 1 of our Honeymoon (Sunday)

Sunday, September 13th, we arrived in Tampa, Florida midday. Danny's Aunt Carol and uncle Frank picked us up from the airport. They also had their grandson Ryeiley with them. He was a hoot! We were on our way to the Port and stopped for lunch at McDonalds. From Tampa airport to the Port was about a 30 minute drive. As we pulled up to the Port, I noticed our boat. I was in shock! I didn't know it was going to be that big. I began to get nervous for the first time.

So we pulled up to the port. Carol and Frank had to drop us off at this point. A man met us, and had us look up our names to find our cabin number. We were #5222, and we wrote this on a tag on our luggage. They then took our luggage, and sent it to our room. We had to wait in a few long lines to board and make sure we were legal, haha. These lines went pretty fast though. Finally, we boarded the ship. As soon as we got on, there were people wanting to take our picture, people passing out activities and coupons for the week, etc. It was a little overwhelming. We had no clue where to go. So, we said well, we need to get to our room, and the first place to check is probably the elevators. So that is where we started. There are a few sets of elevators, so it was confusing on where our room was depending on which elevators we took.

We found our room and it was great.

Our room was great! I expected it to

be super small, but it was perfect for us.

We basically just checked out the boat. We found the "welcome show" so we watched that. It was a comical introduction for everything that we needed to know for the week. Once the boat set sail, we were all called to the deck for a safety test. It was fast and easy.

We went to our sitdown dinner that evening. There were 3 other couples at our table. They were all on their

honeymoon. Later we found out that there were 128 newlyweds on our boat. September must be a popular wedding month!

At 11pm we found the top deck. It was completely black and windy. It was so scary not seeing what was past the railing. We weren't about to find out! We went back to our room and decided to check out the room service. We got all kinds of food and it was free. I couldnt believe it! I love free stuff.