Bachelorette Cruise May 3-7

Having a drink before the flight to calm my nerves...

Our ship in the San Diego port, the Carnival Elation



During the emergency drill

An aircraft carrier that was in the San Diego port

Some of the airplanes on the aircraft carrier

Check out the gun on the front of the coast guard boat

Leaving San Diego

The pool with slide on the ship

I forgot my sunglasses in our cabin.....

At dinner the first night

Laurie and I played Bingo the first night

Just finished breakfast, getting ready to head to Catalina

On a wildlife tour at Catalina. Condos on Catalina in the background.

Two dolphins that were swimming around our boat.

A dolphin. They were about 3 feet away from us. And they were a lot bigger then I expected!

A dolphin at Catalina with our ship in the background.

On the ship in front of Catalina.

Right after we got done snorkling.

Getting ready for the Captains dinner.

Summer, Me, Laurie and Autumn at the Captains dinner

They turn down your bed each night and make these cute towel animals.

Playing mini golf on the 12th deck, top of the ship

Autumn and I at dinner the last night.

At the comedy show the last night.

On the plane home..... we played catch phrase the whole way back.

So we left for our trip Sunday morning May 3rd. We drove from Redding to Sac and then flew to San Diego. Our flight was uneventful but I still don't like to fly, I'm not sure why, i just hate it! Our stewardess was really cool though and gave us free drinks and lots of peanuts and pretzels. We got to SD and then headed over to the ship. It was kind of a long process to get on the boat but we got there about 1 pm. It was a little chaotic the first day because there are about 2,000 passengers on board and no one really knows what they are supposed to be doing or where anything is. We had lunch and then headed to our rooms to check them out. Our luggage wasn't there yet so we went exploring the ship. We took a tour of the gym and spa and signed up for our shore excursions for the next day. We had to do the emergency drill and then we set sail at 5:30. We had dinner and then headed to the big lounge where they had a game show going on and then we played bingo. Then we were tired and headed to bed.

Monday morning we had to get up early and get ready. Laurie and I had breakfast at the buffet and then we met everyone else so we could take the shoreboat over to Catalina. Summer, Laurie, Autumn and I went on a wildlife rafting tour, which was cool. We saw some blue herring, seagull nests, a bald eagle, and then went out and found dolphins. They were huge! and they kept swimming around the boat. Then we went back in and took a boat back to our ship to have lunch. Then Autumn and I went and met her brother and one of his friends and the four of us went snorkling. It was really cool, there was tons of fish! after that we headed back to the boat and we set sail again at 4:30. We laid out in the sun for a bit and then it got cold. We got ready for the captains dinner that night and it was really good. It's nice b/c all the food is included so you can have as many appetizers, entree's and desserts as you want! Then we went and looked as some of our pics that they take on the ship, then headed to a show in the Mikado lounge. I started to not feel so well so I went back to the room about 10:30. I ended up getting sick that night and was really sick and feeling like crap through the next day. I finally went to the infirmery around 12pm b/c i had been vomiting for over 12 hours and couldn't keep any fluids down. I was quite dehydrated and had to get some IV fluids and some nausea meds to help me stop dry heaving. The medicine made me really tired so when the IV was done I went back to the room about 2pm and slept till 5, woke up still didn't feel good so went back to sleep. Woke up about 6pm and was finally feeling better. I was told not to go to the dining room until I was cleard by the doctor so I had to order room service that night. So pretty much whole 3rd day was spent in the cabin.... we were supposed to dock at Ensenada the 3rd day but with the whole swine flu thing going on they didn't let anyone get off the ship. Everyone else just hung out, played volleyball and laid in the sun.

The 4th day was another day at sea. It was in the 70's but overcast. Laurie and I played some mini golf. Then wandered around the ship. We met up with everyone else for lunch and then we all played another round of mini golf. The dinner was really good that night too, I finally had my appetite back. We went to a comedy show but he wasn't that great. Then headed back to the cabin about 1am. We had to get up early to be out of the cabin by 8:30am. We got off the ship after breakfast and headed to the airport. Our flight wasn't till 12 so we all played catch phrase while waiting for our flight. The flight home was nice, very little turbulence. We landed and drove home thursday. It was really fun but I was glad to get home. I missed Aaron a lot and it was really hard to keep in contact with him because the internet on board is via satellite and really slow and there were international roaming/texting rates that were really expensive so I didn't talk to him much. For about 3 days after we got home I still felt like the ground was moving, it was so weird! I would like to go on another cruise sometime, hopefully with Aaron next time, now that I know what to expect.