Birthday Vacation Days 5 & 6 - At Sea and Docking

During out At Sea day, we ate, saw a cooking demo, ate went to a dance show, ate, shopped a bit, booked our next cruise, relaxed, saw the final show, and ate some more.  I didn't take many pictures on this day.  We mostly just hung out and wandered the ship.

A passer-by took this photo for me.

During the final show, many of the room stewards carried towel animals with them.  As we were leaving, I told one that I liked his snail.  He gave it to me.  I carried it to dinner with me, and then took this photo when we got back to the room.

The other main happening of this day was that I was in serious pain.  Because despite true efforts to the contrary on the Nassau day, I apparently stink at evenly applying sunscreen.  I got 2nd degree burns on the backs of both calves, but particular the left calf.  This is the one that was already burned on the day before, so then it was even more burned.  It is now a month later, and I am still actually peeling skin on the back of this leg.

I woke up really early the final morning.  So I thought why not try to get some sunrise photos as we pull into dock.  Well, it turned out to be too cloudy to get much that I thought was any good.

The Disney Magic was already docked and I like these two photos I snapped of it.

When I got back to the room, I took a final shot of the window with the decorations plus the last towel animal added.


I did truly enjoy our cruise even though it was a really short one.  And I mentioned above that we have already booked our next cruise for next year's birthday cruise.  We are going to go one of the really, really, really big ships, Oasis of the Seas.  I am soooooooo excited about finally getting to do this.  And we are doing a full seven day cruise.  If you haven't ever seen anything about these two humongous ships of Royal Caribbean's, you should.  They are floating cities.  They have a zipline that goes across it, two rock climbing walls, two flow riders, an ice show, Broadway show, water show, and tons of eating establishments.  Okay, enough of the Royal Caribbean commercial.  I am just really looking forward to it.


Well, I hope you've enjoyed my blogging of our vacation.  We needed it and enjoyed it.

Birthday Vacation Day 4 - Nassau

This was our day in Nassau.

I really like this picture of Mom and the boat.  She took one of me too, but I don't like how it turned out so you don't get to see it.

Monarch of the Seas from the front.

And this is just one I like showing the name of the ship.

I actually took this one on the way to or from the snorkeling excursion, but it's really my best picture of the boat especially if you look at it full size.  I posted it on the Royal Caribbean Facebook page, and Royal Caribbean actually liked it.

We got a day pass to the above hotel.  It came with beach and pool access and towels, and lunch.  It was a really good lunch and we got a rather strong rum daiquiri with it.

Mom spent all day on the beach, once again just relaxing and playing with electronic devices.  The little oval highlighted in the center is zoomed in on the mom when I was leaving on the boat for the snorkeling tour.

This is a not so good picture of my view for part of the morning where I relaxed next to the mom.

These are just some other pictures of the hotel.  The one on the left I mostly took for the dad.  And I just liked how the one on the right looks.

So it didn't take long before I got bored with just relaxing on the beach.  So I started out just sitting there with the lens zoomed taking pictures.

I love this set of pictures.  And the full size ones especially where the seagull is dunking his head in the waves are among my favorites.  I'll eventually post those on zazzle for sale.

Seagull.

I really love this one as it looks like they are talking to each other.

Seagull on a post.

Seagulls on the beach.

More seagulls.

I like how the wind is blowing this one's feathers.

Now there is a seagull here, but my favorite part of this photo is actually the wave crashing in it.

Now for the flying seagull pictures.

Another flying seagull.

And this would be my favorite flying seagull picture.

Now this is the start of the pictures from the snorkeling excursion.  This was with the water proof bag for my camera and videos where I took still frames from them.  Then I photo-shopped them.  The one above is probably my favorites of the coral pictures.

Another coral shot.

I like this one for that little blue coral on the left.

I just liked how the fish was nicely framed right in front of the fin for this one.

Most of the fish were this type with the black stripe.  And I'm not going to comment on all of these, but I will say for most all of these they look much better if you click on them to open the full size images.

I like how these fins looked and there is that one fish in the background.

The one above and the following few are among my favorites for all the fish pictures, and I wasn't even intentionally videoing at this point.  These are shots from when the camera was just floating on the water and sometimes pointing down into it.

This is probably my favorite fish one that I got, either that or the one below.

Although the combinations of the fish and the coral in this one and the next few are really great too.

And finally some different types of fish.

One last coral plus fish photo.

I took this one on the way back from the tour, and I just liked how it looks.

One final shot at the hotel.  I loved their very huge palm trees.  They were two or three times as high as the ones in Florida ever get.

Then back in our room that night after dinner we had our second towel animal, a rabbit, I think.

It was a really good day, and all of my favorite photos are on this day.