December 5, 2022
Well Jon and I have travelled quite a bit, have been on many boats, but never a floating small city cruise ship. A group of 20 friends decided to do a 3 night 4 day cruise to the Bahamas to celebrate our friend, Pat Block's 75 th Birthday. We honesty were not very excited about the thought a big ship cruise, buy we ended up have an absolute blast !!
Our first night we all met for cocktails, opened birthday poppers complete with paper crowns, and proceeded to form a train singing Happy Birthday to Pat while parading through the ship making quite a spectacle of ourselves. We ended the night with an ice skating show.
The next day was in Nassau so Jon and I headed off and took a water taxi to Paradise Island because we wanted to explore and check out Atlantis. We then took the taxi back to Nassau and walked around the waterfront. It was Pat's official birthday so we all met again at cocktail hour and proceeded to steal the mic from the band and sing a birthday song that I wrote for Pat, and then presented Pat with presents and cards, and one jumbo card that I had made full of photos of Pat , and had everyone sign it. We also passed out hats that had pictures of Pat on them. At dinner we continued our shenanigans with streamers, singing etc....
The next day we were at a private island Coco Key. Jon and I were up early so headed over to the island and enjoyed the morning laying on the beach with direct waterfront loungers. We were joined later in the morning by Jim and Kathy, and had a blast riding the trolley around the island, exploring by foot and swimming. We got back and caught the 5:30 off broadway performance of Grease, then had another delicious dinner.
We had an early arrival back to Cape Canaveral and disembarked and were on our way back to Palm Coast by 10:00 AM.
Well Jon and I have travelled quite a bit, have been on many boats, but never a floating small city cruise ship. A group of 20 friends decided to do a 3 night 4 day cruise to the Bahamas to celebrate our friend, Pat Block's 75 th Birthday. We honesty were not very excited about the thought a big ship cruise, buy we ended up have an absolute blast !!
Our first night we all met for cocktails, opened birthday poppers complete with paper crowns, and proceeded to form a train singing Happy Birthday to Pat while parading through the ship making quite a spectacle of ourselves. We ended the night with an ice skating show.
The next day was in Nassau so Jon and I headed off and took a water taxi to Paradise Island because we wanted to explore and check out Atlantis. We then took the taxi back to Nassau and walked around the waterfront. It was Pat's official birthday so we all met again at cocktail hour and proceeded to steal the mic from the band and sing a birthday song that I wrote for Pat, and then presented Pat with presents and cards, and one jumbo card that I had made full of photos of Pat , and had everyone sign it. We also passed out hats that had pictures of Pat on them. At dinner we continued our shenanigans with streamers, singing etc....
The next day we were at a private island Coco Key. Jon and I were up early so headed over to the island and enjoyed the morning laying on the beach with direct waterfront loungers. We were joined later in the morning by Jim and Kathy, and had a blast riding the trolley around the island, exploring by foot and swimming. We got back and caught the 5:30 off broadway performance of Grease, then had another delicious dinner.
We had an early arrival back to Cape Canaveral and disembarked and were on our way back to Palm Coast by 10:00 AM.
Arriving on boat in Port Canavrel with Mike and Jana
Pool deck on board
Climbing wall on board
Docked in Port Canaveral
Surf wave on board
Jon and Dave
Susan Jon and Pat waving so long....
Ship decked out for Christmas !
Birthday Crown group photo !
Ice skating show
Arriving in Nassau
Nassau lighthouse - what about that blue water ?
Only one other ship in port when we arrived....
Jon and I on water taxi to Paradise Island
Paradise Island shops
Paradise Island - decorations everywhere - very festive !
Walking to Atlantis....
Jon and I - aquarium at Atlantis
Just some fish
Atlantis
Returning to Nassau on water taxi - the port sure filled up with mega cruise ships
Jon and I with our ship, Royal Caribbean - Independence of the Seas in background
Leaving Nassau
Sunset
Selfie before heading out for Pat's party
Pat with her jumbo birthday card
Liz and I singing the birthday song I wrote to Pat
Rest of group singing to Pat
Birthday night group photo
Pat - the birthday girl !
Dave, Jon and Jim - 225 years between the 3 of them !
Pat and Dave
Birthday shenanigans - throwing streamers everywhere
Pat covered in streamers
Jon - r and r at Coco Key
Kathy and I swimming
Jon, me, Kathy and Jim - Coco Key
Jim and Kathy
Jon and me
our ship and sister ship at Coco Key
Water slide at Coco Key
On board, the gang watching the belly flop contest
Grease performance on board
Jana, Jon, Danette and Kathy
George, Tina, Kathy and me
Early arrival back to Port Canaveral
We drove home to Cape Cod, then to Barre's house in Newton where we celebrated Christmas with both Girls this year !! What a blessing !!!
We got back home to snow !!
Got to Barre's house, and this is typical - all kids on devices !!
Riley and Gumpa
Barre, Jon and Lindsay
The Grands
Gram, Gumpa and the grands
Lindsay and family
Barre and family
Scott and Scotty
Our tradition is to read the "it was the night before Christmas" every Christmas eve !! David starting us off.....
Tucker and Gumpa
Kids got to open one present Christmas Eve
Riley
Blake
Quinn
Tucker and Crew
Lindsay and Jon
Crew
Christmas day 2022 !
The infamous kids table !
Barre and Cade
David and Scott
Gram, Riley and Lindsay
Jon and the girls !