Lots to learn!

Man, there is a lot to learn about this cruise stuff. What time to dine, Any shore excursions or what to do at each port, What you can take on the ship and what you can't, going to formal dining night or not, What time can we embark and so on.....We have lots to learn in a short period of time.

We have decided on a shore excursion. We are going to do a guided jeep excursion at Freeport. This is a tour that allows us to drive a jeep (seats 4 people). Sounds like you basically follow the leader (guide) and they take you to areas in a forest, blue hole for swimming and back to the beach for a picnic. Should be fun. It will be for 5 1/2 hours! We thought this was the best way to see a lot of the island in a short period of time. We will make it back to the boat by 5:30 and we leave at 7:00pm so that is good timing I think.

We are not going to do any pay excursion at this point on Naussa because we do have a lot longer time there to meander 8:00am-10:00pm. I am and maybe others are going to go to the bike race for a bit to check that out to see if I can spot the pros which will be very cool. I guess it is a 16 mile taxi ride from our dock to start / finish line of the race. We also want to see the Straw Market and try out the local food so we will do that I am sure through out the day / evening.

We get back to port on a Monday morning and have a few days to kill until we head back. We had looked at so many options out there but came up with nothing really that ALL of us would enjoy so we decided.....WHAT THE HELL!....LET'S GO TO DISNEY! I know this is so very hard for some of you to believe! hahaha....so we are going to stay at a value resort instead of the moderate resort were usually stay at. The value resort was such a better value for staying two days plus it goes along with the theme for doing something different. We have our supper reservations at California Grill (top of the Contemporary Resort) and we have it so our supper will be after Wishes (fireworks at Magic Kingdom). We will have to go up early and sit in the lounge and have sushi and or cocktails before the fireworks. They pipe in the music from the fireworks to the California Grill for us to enjoy also. The next day we will be heading to EPCOT. We thought about doing the Segway tour but decided since I am still having a bit of an ankle issue yet and Dawn is have major foot issues that this could wait until next time. So we will make our way around the World Showcase before heading to Fulton's Crab House in Downtown Disney for supper. Then back to EPCOT for Illuminations. It will be a packed day but fun.

Getting a bit excited. Some of our plans have come together but still a lot to learn and figure out yet. We shopped a bit last night for toiletry items and dug out some of the other things like binocs, cameras, backpack, fanny pack and family radios. We decided to take them along since we will have our cell phones turned off while on the boat. We have shorts pulled out of storage and so it is a matter of trying them on and seeing what we what to take along. We haven't gone through the shirts yet but that is the BIG PLANS for the weekend to get it all done so we can enjoy the Clubhouse next weekend and then the following weekend the roomie works so it would be best to have it all done this weekend!

I do promise a full report when we get back and maybe even some pics!