Cruising with my peeps 2008

So here I am back from a lovely cruise. Sometimes when I look down or I'm just standing still I start to rock back and forth just a bit, as if I were back on that ship again. It's a very strange feeling.

The cruise was so much fun and I was especially happy to be there with such choice people. We dibbed Love Boat names for ourselves and even though I can't remember everyone's...well here it is as I see it:

Me...Charo (remember her? she was a sweet latina with a ginormous chest and always spoke in that broken English and coddling everyone with coochie coos).

Sweets...Isaac, the bartender (why? because he was cool)
Tony...obviously Captain Stoobing
Deb...Jacklyn Smith (another guest, a hottie and actually from Charlie's angels)
Kathy...Julie (the friendly and beautiful cruise director)
Mike...Gopher, the yeoman purser (I don't know what they do, you'll have to watch The Love Boat to find out, when you do let ME know)
Neil...Dr.Adam, the ship's doctor (obviously, seeing as he truly IS a doctor)
Ruth Ann...definitely Farrah Fawcett (another hot guest)

There you have it...the NEW cast of The Love Boat, but if you would like to compare with the old school version, click below:



Here I am in our cool little room. It wasn't too bad actually, it was quite cozy in there. We especially liked being rocked to sleep like little babies every night.






Ok, this picture is especially sweet because Kathy is not standing with her husband, I am. I think what had happened here was that she was going to take the picture, but then Sweets insisted that he would. Cool that I didn't even realize that this situation would look all weird in a picture. Kathy is very beautiful over there on her own though, don't you think?



This picture, on the other hand, is not weird at all. I know Sweets is all like "Stop it you sicko!", but really he loved every minute of it.






Here you see the boys. If you weren't sure what real men look like, don't come looking here. Ha! They are nice and we like 'em. In fact, this was a really fun and romantic trip with my Sweets. It was nice to have uninterrupted conversations for once!







Oh I do love these girls. Kathy and Deb, Deb and Kathy. What more can I say?








Here we all are at our fancy shmancy formals night. I gotta say though, we look gooooood!
Our server took our picture.

Every night we had a private table reserved where we got these 2 servers that only waited on our table and brought us any ridiculous amount of desserts we wanted (or entrees for that matter, sometimes Mike ordered more than one).

We all enjoyed one of the ship's premium desserts named "The Love Boat", a delectable heart-shaped mousse on a crispy chocolatey bottom (everyone should have a chocolatey bottom at least once in their lives).
Here I am with the handsomest Sweets ever. Sweets is a fun tripper, he's just all laid-back and ready for the next fun thing. I really like him as a person, he has all the qualities I love in a great friend. It works out nicely because as it turns out, this great friend also happens to be the sexiest man alive AND I get to be married to him forever. Lucky me:) I never use the sideways smiley faces, but it seemed appropriate;)

Here I am looking quite put out because a couple went and sat in a spot we were trying to save for our friends at the Dangerous Magic of James Michael. Don't worry I took those punks down.






The Caribbean Princess was an enormous vessel! She (I don't know why I am all of a sudden referring to the ship as "she" but just go with it) was over 900 feet in length and over 200 feet in height. There were over 3000 people on board and I am not sure if that included their staff of 1200. She was awesome in the largest sense of the word.



Here I am with Sweets upon arriving the Turk Islands.

Sweets, Tony, Mike, Neil and Ruthie went on a couple of dives while Kathy and Deb and I went our separate ways to go snorkeling. Turns out we couldn't really snorkel seeing as we couldn't get past the darn coral...too shallow and we were going to get all scratched up. We laid out instead.
The rest of our party saw some sting rays and lots of cool and unusual sea life on their dives.

Here I am documenting my laying out. I must say this bikini is my favorite worldly possession.






Oh these cute little locals! These cute uniformed boys are from the school in town; which is about 5 minutes away, we were told. They were going around interviewing everyone where they were from, how they heard about the islands, how they like it so far and what could be done to improve the island. Kathy, Deb and I were interviewed several times each by different kids every time. They were too darling in their uniforms. I wish I would have gotten a picture of the sweet girls we talked to as well.


Mike was so scared that this guy was his own ghost of Christmas future come to haunt him. Sweets just called him Mel, short for Melanoma. I just referred to him as the International Man of Leather. There were a lot of these cool sorts on the ship; especially the old lady who was this guy's twin who wore a skimpy white Guess bikini. Suhweeeet!






I mean look at this lady! If you want to see the epitome of cruise trash! She IS super hot though!









All in all....a very fun trip...fun entertainment, awesome company, fine foods, relaxing down time in the sun, getting to know my Sweets even more and spending time with my best friend (although I wish she would have at least looked at the camera), oh that Dorothy!


This post is dedicated to all those who helped out with our chilluns...this trip would not have been possible without all of you! Love you guys: Grandmas Sharon and Vicencio, Ashlem and Hiry, and Aunt Vivi!