Family cruise
March 8th. 2015. Left Port Canaveral with my three children and their spouses. The second day was spent at Coco Kay, an island owned by the ship lines, Royal Carribean. The wife and I stayed on board and explored the ship, Freedom of the Seas, which up to a few months ago, was the longest cruise ship in the world. In total length, it was almost four football fields long at 1150 feet. Our cabin was a inside cabin on the seventh floor, room 7389. The total guest able to stay is over 4,000 not counting crew members.
The next day, we spent cruising and docked at St. Thomas. We did a short excursion and came back to ship a couple hours later. Purchased a t shirt. It was very hot and wife and I were rather tired so we spent the afternoon at ships poolside and in the library catching up on our reading. After supper, we took in a magic show in the auditorium. Cruised overnight and docked next day in St. Maartin, a relatively small island which is divided in half with the French claiming one half and the Dutch, the other half.
We had purchased a personal guide just for the eight of us and he turned out to be the nicest tour guide anyone could ask for. He took a tour around the entire island with many stops to point out special points of interest. The nude beach, on the French side, was the laugh of many comments. Our guide, Josay, said most of the old folks needed a good ironing to get the wrinkles out. It was a lot of fun and a great many laughs. We also ate lunch here. After a three hour tour, which turned out to be four and a half hours, we said our goodbyes and went back to ship. More food and ice skating show.
The next two days were spent cruising back to Port Canaveral. The seas got a little rough and the weather turned sour for one day but the second day it was much better. We reached home port about eight on Sunday morning.
As our 4000 people were deporting, 4000 people were getting ready to board. How they refuel, clean, stock food, etc. in less than eight hours is a mystery to me.