Rockin' Knits: Carnival Liberty

Monday, June 11, 2012

Back to Cruisin', Ellen!

Last week I began telling you about the holiday we had where we went on a cruise and went to Jeff and Laura's wedding, but then an iceberg showed up in Ferryland! Now we can go back to the cruise for this post, then we'll go back to knitting. I have a couple of projects in the works to show you.

After St. Thomas, the ship docked at Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. John and I didn't do any on shore excursions. We just explored the city. Very interesting place! The coloured houses reminded me of St. John's, but the houses in Puerto Rico have more balconies than the houses here. We met a few interesting creatures too! Old San Juan has a lot of forts and high walls that protected them from invaders in days gone by.

The last stop on the cruise was Grand Turk. We explored a little, but then went back to the ship to the Serenity Deck (very top of ship) to read and enjoy some quiet time.

Next post Ellen will be joining us again after her very restful vacation.

Street scenes of Old San Juan

Love the cobblestone streets!

Cool chairs!

View from stairs of the wall in above picture.

Garden Restaurant

People use the orange and white things for parking

Pigeon bath

Cat in a wall?

Port of San Juan

Leaving San Juan

As we were leaving San Juan, lots of people were watching small planes land.

Docking at Grand Turk

Debarking at Grand Turk

Restaurant with pool

Grand Turk Weather Station

Our view from our beach chairs

Carnival Liberty docked at Grand Turk

Grand Turk Beach (from the pier)

Monday, June 4, 2012

Hey Ellen, We're Home!

I've been missing in action for almost 2 weeks. We were on vacation. Went on a cruise ship named Carnival Liberty for 7 days. We stopped in 4 ports along the way and arrived home on Saturday night past. Just getting around to doing a post now because you know when you get home from a holiday, there's always the laundry, grocery shopping, etc. All that's done, so now I can settle down to write a bit.

Ellen says she missed us terribly even though Alana checked in on her regularly. No worries Ellen. We're home for a good while now.

I do have a confession to make: I did not take any knitting with me on the holiday! I decided the night before we left that I would do a knitting fast and leave it home.

So, the next few posts will contain pictures of the places we visited. This will give me a bit of time to get something new started to eventually show you.

Here goes!

We flew to Miami on May 24 to stay for 2 days. When we arrived at our hotel the revolving door got stuck (with us in it!) as we entered the hotel. One of the ladies at hotel reception told us that's not how she likes her guests to be greeted, so we immediately we received a room upgrade. Sweet! What a lovely view!

Later in the day we discovered that if we sipped drinks on the shaded back deck of the hotel, we could watch all shapes and sizes of boats coming, going and playing in Miami Harbour. They also have a bridge that opens and closes according to the needs of the shipping traffic. We spent 2 lovely days at that hotel before joining the rest of our party and the ship. We joined the ship in Miami on Saturday, May 26. We had a cabin with a balcony, so you'll see some pictures taken from that view point.

Our first stop was at Half Moon Cay, which is Carnival's private island and part of the Bahamas. We had to be tendered (get another boat to shore from the ship) to get onto the island. We set sail from that location on Sunday evening and spent all day Monday at sea. They call that "Fun Day at Sea". The ship had to sail around a storm during the Fun Day at Sea, so it was pretty interesting out on the balcony! I did a short video but it won't upload. I'll try it again next post.

Hope you'll come back to see the rest of the pictures.