All Aboard

Sunday morning and it was time to load a bus, leave Orlando, and head to Port Canaveral where our ship was waiting.   And I told myself that I was only allowed 20 pics top for each blog post about the cruise... we'll see how that goes ;)

 Can you tell we're excited!!

 The fam was really excited too!  After what felt like a super long bus ride we finally arrived to our ship.  But then we had to wait and wait and wait in line to actually board.

 Arriving in our rooms.  All of us were right across the hall from each other.  Bob & Lora, and Ashley & Jerad had the 2 rooms with the balconies and we had a royal promenade room which we loved cause of...

 ... our view down on the Royal Promenade.  It made for some really good people watching!

 Thanks to our travel agent we had 3 bottles of wine welcoming us aboard.

 We explored the ship, did the safety drill, and then watched our boat pull out at 6:07 p.m. according to port's clock.

 From where our ship docks you could see NASA's launch pad.  Bob took this picture and when we zoomed in to look at it on the laptop you could actually see the shuttle already out there ready to go.  It was cool.

 The Royal Promenade was gorgeous!

 Lots of stores and food!!

 Ready for the shows and dinner!

 In the theater for our first show.

 At dinner having the first drinks of the cruise!

 Self timer while walking around the ship.

 It was a bit windy.

 Dreamworks is a sponsor of the ship so there was a big parade that night with all the Dreamworks characters- all the Madagascar characters, Shrek, Princess Fiona, Puss in Boots, Kung Fu Panda, etc.

To end our first night we went for a night swim and some hot tubbing.  Next up... day 2 at sea.