Our cruise was so fun!! We can't wait until we're able to go again- we're hoping to go on another on in a couple years to the Mediterranean. The Mexican Riviera was a blast though! Here are some high lights from the boat.
This is the first shot we got of the boat as we were trying to find our parking. We spent 7 days and 7 nights on the Carnival Pride.
Here's Nathan checking out our amazing stateroom. It was a pretty decent size for a cruise ship, and it had a ton of storage space. We had a bathroom, closet, couch, little table, bed, night stands, tv, etc.
When we got to our room, we excited and surprised to see it was decorated for us. One of Nathan's co-workers, Thea, had called in advanced and ordered us honeymoon stateroom decorations. They were so fun! We kept them up the whole time, and even brought some home with us.
Nathan enjoying the bed!
Me, takin' a break before dinner to read the next day's "capers." The beds were really pretty comfortable except for what we termed "the butt crack of the bed." Our king was actually two twin mattresses put together, so every now and then we would roll over the crack. It wasn't too noticeable though.
A mirror picture snapped while we were getting ready for dinner one night. There was a dress code for the dining room, so we usually had to change clothes before dinner time. No shorts in the dining room, and guys are encouraged to wear collared shirts. Two of the nights were formal, so we hit up the buffets instead of going to the dining room, because Nathan didn't bring any dress clothes, and we're too cheap to rent him a tux on the boat.
He cleans up pretty nice, doesn't he? That's my man!
Our favorite part of our room was the balcony! It was so nice to be able to have nice private space to sit and enjoy the views of the ports and the ocean or a beautiful sunset. The breeze off the water was so refreshing, and it was cool to leave the curtains open and wake up every morning to an ocean view. This is Nathan enjoying some root beer out on the balcony before we even left port in Long Beach.
One not-so-fun thing that happened on our balcony was our little camera mishap. While taking these very pictures that you're looking at, we were passing the camera off to one another when it slipped out of our hands and fell to ground, putting a pretty little kink in the extended lens. I was so sad, because this was only our first day at sea and we had just broken our camera. Lucky for us, the ship had just about anything you could think of on board- so we had a very nice selection of new cameras to choose from. We weren't really planning on buying a brand new digital camera, but how can you experience the Mexican Riviera without a camera to share the experience with your friend and family?!
Another thing that we liked to do, was walk out on the deck or the "Promenade." I think that was probably one of Nathan's favorite parts. If we could get where we were going by walking outside, that was always the option he would choose- even at night when it was windy and freezing outside! It was really fun though- one of those experiences you can't really have anywhere else- kind of romantic. =)
Every night with our turn down service, we got one of these little guys. The towel animals were pretty impressive. We looked forward to the end of the day so we could go back to the room and see what animal we got! Then Nathan would put his sunglasses on them and we'd have a little photo shoot. It was silly, but fun!
Super cool sting ray.
The night we got this monkey were kind of upset at first because we thought they had forgotten to make us an animal. He was hanging from the ceiling by our mirror! It took us a minute to find him since he was sitting on the bed.
This is a picture of the doors to the dining room. I wish I had remembered to bring the camera to dinner one night- the inside was really beautiful. Our scheduled dinner was every night at 6:00 in the dining room- but we didn't always eat there. We spent a lot of time up on the Lido Deck at the Mermaid Grille. It was full of amazing buffets for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And when it wasn't meal time, if we got hungry, there was always the 24 hour pizza and ice cream bars. We had ice cream all the time, just because we could. We even had it after breakfast one morning. The night before we arrived in our first port, there was a midnight Mexican buffet too. Oh! AND there is 24 hour room service too. On the first formal night we opted to spend the evening in our room and had dinner delivered while we watched the sunset. If you're a lover of food, like we are, I highly recommend a cruise. You'll love it.
Here is a picture of the glass elevators in the center of the ship. I thought they were so cool. The details and decor around the ship were just so cool. There's no way I could try to describe it all and possibly give it justice.
This is a snapshot of a couple of the shops that were on board. There was a ton of jewelry, and sunglasses, souvenirs, and "cruise wear."
The stair case at the Butterflies Lounge! We love the song "Big Girls" by Mika, so we got a kick out of the fact that there was A Butterfly Lounge on our ship.
There were butterflies absolutely everywhere! It was kind of over the top- but that's what makes it so fun. And in honor of the Carnival Pride Butterflies Lounge- I must post the song! haha
This is the starry night cafe- it was designed to look just like the painting. It was really neat!
We eventually found our way down to the casino, where we said good bye to about $60 throughout our time at see. Those slot machines are addicting! We had a couple big wins, but wound up putting all our winnings back into the machines. That's how they get you! We had a blast though- I got really easily excited when we would win anything. And the slot machines gave us an excuse to kiss eachother- for good luck of course!!There was so much that we didn't get pictures of too. Like the Taj Mahal- where they had shows every night. We saw a couple of musical like shows and a ventrilaquist act. It was a cool theatre.
We also took part in a "treasure hunt" where we got a map, and had to follow clues all over the boat to find different letters and numbers. We had to unscramble the letters to discover the secret code and put the numbers into an equation to figure out the secret number. We were pretty confident that we were going to win- and we were soooo close. They actually drew our map out the box!! We had unscrambled the letters and got the correct answer, but the answer to our equation was a little off. = (
We still had a lot of fun looking for the clues though.
I'll try to post more about the honeymoon later this weekend!
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