Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The journey begins...

So you may have noticed our cruise countdown picture is no longer on the blog. Saddly enough, our trip is over. We have now returned from one of the best vacations ever. I have been struggling with trying to figure out how I can blog a 9 day adventure, and I think I'll just have to take it one day (literally) at a time. I took 270 pictures, so I will obviously give you just a touch of them here. I also took 8GB of video on our new flip video camera, and I am investigating You Tube to figure out how to post those also. In other words, lots more to come. In this installment, I will post our journey to the boat:

The girls and the traditional Carroll countdown poster. We have marked off the last day:



Another Carroll family tradition, picnicing at the Alabama rest stop. We all played hookie from school the last Friday and left home around 10 am (we were shooting for 9). We ate at the reststop, then hit the road again.




The girls after lunch:


We broke the drive the first day into two parts. (insert laugh here, Julie and Matt...) We stayed in Monticello, FL, right past Tallahassee the first night. I don't think we could have driven much further. The drive home was much easier, but I guess getting up for school that week made the drive down slower.


Emma in our hotel room the first night:





Katie outside the truck the next morning before we left for Port Canaveral:




We stayed at the Radisson at the Port the night before the cruise b/c they had a cruise deal which saved us parking at the terminal. We left the car at the hotel and took a shuttle to the boat. It was very convenient. They had a great pool at the hotel, which we all enjoyed after the long days of driving.


Mark and the girls at the pool. I love this picture:





Swimining at the pool:




I used the timer on the camera for this one... not that bad:





Our packed bags the next morning while we wait for the shuttle. I got the cutest matching duffle bags from the Disney store online. They had our names on them, but rolling would have been better (but they did look good!)





Waiting for the shuttle... too excited to sleep!




Next... arriving at the terminal and our first hours on the boat!

















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