I love it when we're crusin' together

Now for the moment you've all been waiting for...I WENT ON A LDS SINGLES CRUISE!!!!! Yes I did and I really can't believe I went either. I had been feeling restless and I really wanted to travel. This year was going to be my and Clint's 9yr wedding anniversary and he promised me that this was the year we would go on a cruise to celebrate. I thought long and hard and decided that dang it, I am still going on a cruise with or without him and since it was most definitely without him that I was pretty sure that he would be going along with me in spirit. On facebook I noticed an ad for the 1,000 Saints at Sea. So I checked it out and found out that it was a LDS singles cruise for 5 days to Cabo San Lucas Mexico. It sounded perfect, so I talked to my BFF/fellow widow/soul sista Jami and we decided that we were so going together.

I had lots to figure out before the cruise but the most important thing on my plate was finding people to watch the kids, people that I trusted 100% and would take care of my kids as if they were their own. The answer was pretty obvious...my sisters!!! Val already lives with me so she could watch them but someone else would need to watch them while she was at work. I called my sister Robin and asked if she would come out and I would pay for her airplane ticket. She talked with her boyfriend and got ready to come spend 2 weeks at my house watching the kids and hanging out with Val and me once I got back. I was totally excited and nervous!!

I think the day came faster than I thought it would but I had my passport and I was so ready to travel. My flight took me to Las Vegas and then onward to San Diego where our ship was docked. Jami and I made sure that our flights got to San Diego around the same time so we could go to the ship together. We ended up in two totally different sections of the airport and we had no idea how to get to each other and to the cruise ship. Luckily she saw a guy in a red hat that said "Carnival" on it and found out that there was a bus taking people to the cruise ship. She called me and told me to find a red hat guy and with some luck I found him and they were able to get us on the same bus. We were of course totally giddy and excited when we found each other and we were on our way to the cruise ship.

There is so much to write about this trip and how it really changed me so it might take a few posts to get it all in so sit back and enjoy the ride...I mean...sit back and cruise on through these next few posts...OK that was LAME!! Ha ha I am a dork sometimes, just enjoy and if you are lucky I might post a few pics :)

Once we got to the dock I was shocked at how many people there were. It felt like we were a bunch of cattle slowly being led to the final destination. We had to go through this long line to get through security and then to finally check in and get to the right ship. It was all very boring and exciting at the same time. (Hey it was my first cruise!) On the way up into the ship I swear there were tons of workers waiting to take your picture, that is how it was the whole cruise, every where you looked there was the "paparazzi" now I know how the celebrities feel!!

It didn't take us long to find our room because we were on the first floor of rooms once you get on the ship...in other words...the farthest away from where all the activities were. We seriously had to walk up 100 stairs to get to dinner and where all the activities were. I got bored one day so I counted For some reason when I counted I only counted 80 stairs but then an awesome guy named Todd was walking down to his room when I was walking to mine and he counted 100 stairs, so I counted again and sure enough it was 100, my poor children are really going to need math tutors. Anyways...

We got to our room and there was only one, single bed.We had no idea what we were going to do about the sleeping arrangements but we would figure them out later. There was a whole group of widows and widowers that we knew from Utah on the ship and we really wanted to find them. We found the girls pretty quick there were three of them in a room and three beds. Then we looked at one of the beds and realized it was screwed into the wall and somehow you could close it up and it looks like a big box on the wall and guess what...we had a big box on our wall...so thankfully we had two beds in our room, problem solved. We hung out with them for a while and went back to our room to get our cameras and go up to the Lido deck and have our safety drill and wait for the ship to set sail.



Finally after what seemed like an ETERNITY our ship set sail. It was the coolest thing except for the fact that you have to learn to walk all over again it is a good thing I don't drink because some of the drunks on the ship were worse of than I was when it came to walking. We went back to our room to check the schedule and get ready for dinner. We had early dinner and our tables were assigned to us so I was pretty excited to meet who were going to be our dinner companions for the rest of the cruise. We got all dolled up and went down there and low and behold our table had 1 older lady (who is the world's biggest angel and my new "aunt") and 3 good looking guys...SWEET!! I had a feeling we were going to be enjoying our dinners!!