Something I’ve learned about being a Gee 1. Life is never bring 2. Never go on vacation without a A) Bathing Suit B) Passport… you’ll never know where you’ll end up. Garrett’s mom told us on Sunday that she had an extra room on the boat Allure of the Seas. There was a special press screening for media and travel agents of the new boat. The boat is Royal Caribbean, it’s the biggest ship in the world and this would be its first voyage. Cool! We tried our hardest to find cheap tickets and make it work.

We hopped on a plane on Thursday to Ft. Lauderdale.

Side note: Spirit Airlines is the WORST. I swear Aeroflot (Russian Airline) gave them their old plane and they now use it. There is NO leg room. And they charge you for CARRY-ONS and luggage. Gay. It was miserable.

BUT, once we landed in Florida the warm weather washed all of our troubles away. We met up with Garrett’s mom and Lisa, the photographer. We ran to the mall to grab some sandals, bathing suits, and sun glasses and were off the next day to our cruise.

The boat was incredible. I felt like I was in a mall. It was so much fun. The first day we explored. We headed right off to the sports deck where there was the Surf Rider, Zip Line, Putt-Putt course, and Basketball/Soccer Courts.

When we headed up to the pool the first thing we saw was Adam Sandler with a pink swim cap standing in the pool, acting like the idiot he is. They were filming the movie Jack and Jill. (This is also the movie that they were filming in Central Park the week before) At first it was cool to see Adam Sandler, Al Pachino, and Katie Holmes and all of the production crew around the ship, but after a while it got annoying when they would shut down parts of the ship for hours at a time for filming. (The picture to the right is of Katie Holmes and her entourage... including Suri Cruise)

We enjoyed the pool, a fancy dinner, and an AMAZING aqua show. We also went to see the How to Train Your Dragon on ice show as well as Chicago the musical. I was excited to see another musical, but turns out Chicago is completely trashy. I would’ve walked out if I wasn’t in the middle of the row.

Garrett and I were tempted to stay in the room w/ all of the great movies that they have. We watched Salt, Karate Kid and Oceans.

Saturday we played at the sports courts, swam, played soccer and basketball, rock climbed, saw the new Dreamworks film, MegaMinda and watched the awesome Aqua show again. The night ended with a fantastic Italian dinner.

It was a quick trip. But well worth it. Sunday was a grooling day of travel. We got home (well to Joanna’s) Sunday night after midnight.