cruise vacation summary super blog guide

day 1 - flight to miami, via atalanta - 05/07/05
on our flight to miami via atlanta, a stinky fat guy sat next to me. read the story about him stinking and eating my garbage at this link. it includes the first cruise update video. you can see the pictures and follow along with events by captions. this link will take you to cruise pictures day 1.

day 1 videos-
to watch, right click, select save link as, then to desktop. watch with sound when done downloading.
- (Windowsmedia, 7.3mb) - The fat guy at the link above contains a description.
- (Quicktime, 21.6mb) - The moving walkway in Salt Lake with whole fam.
- (Quicktime, 19.6mb) - Landing in Atlanta, fat guy says "tower, hello." weird.
- (Quicktime, 20.2mb) - Landing in Miami.

day 2 - boarded cruise ship - 05/08/05.
we boarded our cruise ship, royal caribbean's explorer of the seas, on day 2, 5-8-05, sunday. they let my little sister drink (19), as long as my mom signed this waiver on check in. she was quick to do it, but my little brother (16) was also able to easily drink. here is a picture of me and the view of miami, from the port in our stateroom. me and my sister walked around for a little while, looked for a minute on deck 12. i decided to take both cameras to the life jacket drill. me and my sister watch from our stateroom as we leave the port in miami. here's a view on deck 4, with me, sister and brother. the pool at night almost empty can be seen here, and here also. see the rest of the pictures of the gallery here.

day 2 videos-
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- (Windows Media, 6.8mb) - Before boarding ship, eating Quiznos in morning, balcony view.
- (Windows Media, 1.0mb) - At the lifejacket drill with my dad.

day 3 - at sea - 05/09/05.
this day we spent the day at sea going from miami to belize. here is a view from my breakfast seat. we got tuxedos for the formal dinner tonight, here i am being measured. we sat at the lounge on 14 for a few minutes, seen seen here. the tv told us where we were and how fast we were going. it was on channel 32. here i am in my tuxedo and comfortable shoes. our assistant waiter Adrian, and our head waiter Erkan.. the rest of the pictures are here.

day 3 videos-
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- (Quicktime, 9.8mb) - At sea in Jazz lounge with brother, Bingo announcement.

day 4 - belize - 05/10/05
my dad took camera half of the day. some of his pictures can be found in the main day 4 gallery. i got the camera back later in the night. we went to johnny rockets and then found a big giant ice chunk with a hole in it! weird.

day 4 videos-
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- (Quicktime, 30.6mb) - At Johnny Rockets, my brother dances with waiters.
- (Quicktime, 8.9mb) - Riding in elevator back down after eating.

day 5 - costa maya, mexico - 05/11/05
we had to wait for another ship to dock before we could leave. the pier was closed to people. in costa maya, we just went to a few stores. we found very strange mexican things like mexican weed pipes, old mexican vanilla, weird shaped corona bottles, and dirty mexican shot glasses. the floor in the elevator on the boat told us it was wednesday. they had nasty, real pig on the buffet after we left on the boat. nasty. rest of pictures are here.

day 5 videos-
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- (Windows Media, 3.8mb) - In the dining room for dinner.
- (Windows Media, 1.5mb) - Our assistant watier Adrian shouts Tequila with song.
- (Windows Media, 2.1mb) - On the balcony with my sister, in middle of nowhere.

day 6 - cozumel, mexico - 05/12/05
the views from the boat were good today, see them in the main galleries. my favorite picture is the mexican superflex trader, an old, rusted mexican boat, comes in to the pier. it was loud and funny. hahaha. me and my sister went parasailing and the sea was rough. other people started throwing up all over. i normally don't, but when other people do, i have problems. i didn't have the camera, which is probably a good thing. see the main day 6 gallery.

day 6 videos-
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- (Windows Media, 8.0mb) - The midnight pool party movie 1
- (Windows Media, 4.4mb) - The midnight pool party movie 2

day 7 - grand cayman - 05/13/05
we went to grand cayman on day 7, which was my favorite. i took a helicopter tour with my little brother, seen in the main gallery. here i am with the helicopter. there are lots of pictures from the helicopter, like of the difference of color in the ocean depth and pictures of the cruise ship. see the main day 7 gallery for all the pictures.

day 8 - day at sea again, back to miami - 05/14/05
this day we spent the whole day at sea. it was kind of boring because i knew the trip would be over after this day. see main gallery for day 8 here. i sat with this view for breakfast.

day 8 videos-
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- (Windows Media, 3.2mb) - Our last day at sea.
- (Windows Media, 6.2mb) - My favorite movie, a window evening at very front of windy ship. this is my favorite video, you can hear the wind

day 9 - flying home, boring - 05/15/05
we flew home on sunday and got home late sunday night. i didn't even get a picture of the american airlines 777 i flew mia-dfw on, my first 777 experience. see the main day 9 gallery

see also - pictures from video camera gallery.