Writing From: Our cabin

Hello! This morning we were woken by the foghorns making five blasts on two occasions. We later found out we passed close by some fishing boats. We had breakfast in our room. I had an assortment of pastries and Amber had bacon, hash browns, and a fruit plate. I had two glasses of juice. We headed to the pool area but it was blowing a gale. We had lunch in the Windjammer and then Amber passed to the next stage in her competition by giving a “political” speech. Then we abandoned our loungers on account of the wind and Amber taught me backgammon. I won. After that we headed to the art auction at 1:30pm and we claimed our honeymooner’s artwork. We got called the “happy couple” a lot! We didn’t’ win the $5,000 raffle, sadly. After a rest we went to the first formal dinner and met they mystery diners – aka the two missing people at our table. They are called Adam and Deirdra. Amber’s tattoo washed off today. ☹

Tonight Amber stayed in and read and I went to the 80’s music show “Pure Energy,” then to the battle of the sexes in the Lotus Lounge, and then I took two Choc Chip cookies up to eat with my wife. We watched the sea for a while and then went to bed.

May 21st 12:22am aka 0:22
Simon

Starting to feel sick so this will be short. Hopped on the bus after I had subway for…breakfast…and got to the port at 11:10ish. It took about an hour to get aboard and then we had a light lunch at the Windjammer. Had French bread, a banana, and some fries. At 1pm our stateroom was ready. Amber’s large bag and my suit bag arrived first but my large bag didn’t before 6pm.

Dinner was at the Sound of Music dinner hall at 6pm. We met Todd and Tracy to our right and Ashley and Brett to our left. The latter folks were on their Honeymoon too. Had stuffed chicken and Amber had cod. Yum. Till next entry viewers, night.

Writing from: Cabin 8590 on the Mariner of the Seas
Out to Sea

We left Port Canaveral at 4ish after standing in line FOREVER! Only we had to turn all the way around and go back after an ever so calm voice announced “Alpha Alpha Alpha Basketball court” and the captain came on and said someone was hurt. Now we are on our way again and going super fast to make up time. Simon and I think it had to be a head injury to get us to turn all the way around like that, but it turned out the guy just hurt his knee.

The fastness of the boat is making it rock a lot. It’s making me feel drunk but not queasy. Had a good dinner of Alaskan Cod and “Chocolate Fondue” which was really some kind of mousse.

Then we went around the ship and found cool stuff like the Dragon’s Lair dance club.

We watched the parade and I got picked with 9 other people to be the potential future cruise director. We’ll see what happens tomorrow. 5 people said they would vote for me. Not counting Simon so that’s 6 votes! Maybe I have a chance. I certainly hope so.

The drinks here are good.

Oh! I got a fake tattoo of a frog. His name is Mr. Hoppy! My favorite bar is the Wig and Gavel – the British pub. I like to sit out in front and watch people.

So far, our honeymoon is going awesome. Will write more later!

<3 Amber

Writing From: Same place as Simon
Room 509

We leave for the cruise tomorrow. We agreed that one of us would write in this every night so we should have pretty complete entries!

We went to Ron John’s Surf Shop and it was pretty cool. When we went to go to the bar there was a guy with a voice box. It creeped me out. He had an actual HOLE in his throat!

At the beach we walked along the water. The waves rushed in so fast that they caught me by surprise and got me wet!

The kids in the room next door are really annoying but it’s ok. I brought the duct tape and I WILL duct tape their mouths shut!

We may take a walk to Walgreens soon. It’s open 24 hours I hear. Dunno what the Florida nightlife is like but I am sure we will soon see!

Oops we decided to go in the morning. Time for bed now! I love Simon, I love it here and I can’t wait till tomorrow!

<3 Amber

The view from our hotel!!!

Local time: 9:14 PM

Hello loyal readers! This has turned from a wedding blog to a honeymoon blog overnight! YAy! So here we are in beautiful Cocoa beach Florida waiting for our cruise adventure to begin. We wait in style though, in our two room Comfort Inn Suite sipping our complimentary pina coladas. Yes, this is the life. The weather is beautiful, if not a little too humid

Walked down to the beach and it was awesome! There was practically no one there and the waves crashing on the shore were beautiful! We plan to get up early tomorrow to watch the sunrise since we have this rare chance of being on the East coast! I got run over by a monster wave though and that wasn’t very pleasant. We went home shortly after that and here we are! Oh, but one highlight

And we even had the chance to play life sized shuffle board!

This is a full out x games kind of sport my friends! Nothing like those piddly diddly little games they have in bars back home. I don’t understand how it got associated with old people! We were crazy out there with our sticks and puck thingies! It was awesome. It made me wish that Scott and a fourth person were there so we could really get our shuffle board action on!

The people who are next door just arrived and they seem loud. Maybe I will show them my “O” face. “yeah you should” says Simon who is reading over my shoulder.

I’ll leave you with that mental image.

A-Bean

Writing From: Comfort Inn and Suites
Cocoa Beach, Florida

First Entry (by Simon)! Today we got up at 7am, did some last-minute packing, and headed to the airport. After a fabulous Quiznos early lunch, we boarded the plane bound for Orlando. We arrived at 5pm local time and took a taxi to Cocoa Beach, on the coast (cost $101.75, gave a large tip, paying $120). After checking in, we ate at Taco Bell/ Long John Silver’s, ha ha! We then went back to the hotel for our two free Pina Coladas. We played some life-size shuffleboard next and the score was 16:0 (Simon won).