This coming August will be Steve and my 15th anniversary. Back in February, we decided that we were going to do something big, and fun, and special this year. We've never done anything big, or fun, or special on any of our anniversary's because we've always been so flat busted broke. Even our honeymoon sucked out loud because we were so broke. This year, for whatever reason, we happen not to be so broke, so we decided it was a good time to start celebrating our anniversary properly.
What do you do for your 15th anniversary if it's the first time you've ever been able to do something? Do you go to an all inclusive resort on a Caribbean island? Do you drive down to Ft. Lauderdale and check out the scenery? Do you go to the mountains and hike, and maybe take a zip line back down? Do you go to NYC and check out Broadway shows? What do you do?? You cruise!
I researched all inclusive resorts. WAY too expensive!! I researched staying in Ft. Lauderdale, all the way down to Key West. Not what I was looking for. I'm not a huge fan of mountains. They are cool, and hiking is fun, and zip lining looks super cool, but I wouldn't want to spend all our time in the mountains. I would love to go to NYC some day and see some shows and go on an historical tour, but Steve is not a fan of NYC.
Someone mentioned going on a cruise, and I said, "NO WAY!!" I'm terrified of deep, dark water. I'm the only person in the country who's never seen Titanic, and I never plan to. I know how it ends, they all die in the deep, dark, freezing cold water! I love the beach. I mean I LOVE the beach!! But I don't like being in a boat, on the water. Why would I go on a cruise??
I was at a loss one day while I was researching places to go, so I typed Cruises into google. I started looking at all the things they have for you to do on the ship. I looked at all the things you can do on land at each port of call. I looked at the prices. A fraction of the cost of an all inclusive resort? Broadway shows included on the ship? All meals included on the ship? Room service included on the ship? Zip lining and rock climbing on the ship??? Central Park on the ship???? This isn't a boat! It's a floating city of awesomeness!! And then there are the shore excursions! Everything from sight seeing, to beach bumming, to snorkeling, to scuba diving, to horseback riding through Mayan ruins! Those cost extra from the all inclusive stuff on the ship, but it's still not nearly as expensive as an all inclusive resort, and you get to explore multiple islands! Sign us up!!
I started telling Steve about it and he loved the idea! He's always wanted to go on a cruise, but I've never wanted to because of the whole deep, dark water thing. The more we looked into it, the more we wanted to do it.
About a month ago, we picked a cruise on Royal Caribbean, and we booked it!
http://www.royalcaribbean.com/findacruise/cruiseDetails/itinerary.do?packageCode=OA07E054&sailDate=1120908&selectedCurrencyCode=USD
We are going on a seven day Eastern Caribbean cruise at the beginning of September. We will be spending time in Nassau, Bahamas; Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas; and Philipsburg, St. Maarten. We've picked shore excursions to go on at each port. Snorkeling, hiking, zip lining, beach bumming! Our ship, Oasis of the Seas, is the biggest, most decked out ship class in Royal Caribbeans fleet. You wouldn't believe the things they've got on this ship! They've got an ice rink and you can go skating, and you can watch live ice shows! We aren't big skaters. We are both very uncoordinated, so that would just be embarrassing. However, we love live shows!! Our ship also has three other theaters, no wait, maybe four, where they have different live shows, concerts, stand up comedians, oh and the aqua theater where they have aquatic shows! We are going to be at show after show after show while we're on the ship!! They've got the Broadway production of Chicago on this ship!
We were told that there were two 'formal' nights in the main dining room on our ship. What that means is that ladies have to wear a cocktail dress, or something like that, and men have to wear either a suit and tie, or a tux. Our travel agent (who is also the avionics secretary at Steve's company) told us that we don't have to attend these, we can have dinner wherever we want, but she said that it's kind of fun to get dressed up once in a while. Steve owns one suit, and it has never fit right. We are totally jeans and t-shirt people. I happened to find a long cocktail dress that is absolutely beautiful! Covered in sequins and beads and gorgeous! Plus, it was marked down from $288 to $34!! WOO HOO!! SCORE!! I was looking for suits for Steve. Suits are ungodly expensive!! But guess what? We can rent a tux from the ship! For $85 Steve can be all tuxed out! It's going to be like prom, except fun!! Not only that, but our travel agent told the cruise line that it's our anniversary and they are going to do something special for us that night for our anniversary! Steve told me that I can have a spa day during the day that day, and have them do my hair, nails, and makeup if I want. I WANT!!! I'm going to look like a princess! So between princess-prom and the spa day, the shore excursions, all the shows on ship, the zip lining on ship, the rock climbing on ship, room service, all the other restaurants, and central park on ship, I don't think I will even notice that we are in deep, dark water! And if I do, I doubt I'll even care!
Here's where Insanity comes in. I want to look and feel amazing when we go on this cruise! I want to be able to swim and go snorkeling, and hiking up mountains without getting tired, or worn out. Last, but not least, I want to look beyond amazing in that dress! It already looks pretty good, but I think I can make it look even better if I get rid of a few bulges and extra curves. I'm determined to push though Insanity and look and feel amazing by the beginning of August!
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