"Hey, you're the newlyweds, right!?"

Our honeymoon...

what can I say about our honeymoon? Well, it wasn't exactly what I expected.

We started the four hour drive to Fort Lauterdale pretty early. Dustin's best man volunteered for the trip down and then watched the critters for us while we were away. We kept entertained with general banter, books, ABC games, and finally 20 questions; where I learned how UNeducated my husband is in animal knowledge.

The line to get onto the ship was attrocious to say the least. We arrived an hour or so ahead of our scheduled boarding time and didn't get on until almost an hour after. Thank goodness for our inner patience. Instead of getting frustrated we continued through the lines in a generally positive mood, making up stories of the people around us. I found it interesting that every official we came across kept saying 'No need to stress, this will be over soon'. Do I LOOK like I'm stressing people?? I'm smiling and bubbly and asking you how YOUR day is going, YOU chillax... Goodness. By the end of it I WAS starting to stress.

When we finally made it to our room, it wasn't exactly prepared for us. There were some left over pedals from the last tenants but the room itself was absolutely beautiful. We had a suite with a balcony. The closet was large enough to walk in. The bathroom was tiled with a tub big enough for two (long ways). There was a couch and a chair and a nice size bed. On the balcony facing the dock were two lounge chairs and two upright chairs. I deemed that if I were to tan at all, it would not be on a crowed deck on display with strangers. It would be here. Naked.  

  

  

 

We took a few minutes to settle in and then started touring the ship. The promenade alone was spectacular. there were spiraling staircases, glass elevators, fixtures dangling from the ceiling and a 'Rainbow bridge'. It looked like a fancy pants mall on the inside.

The deck was huge! The only other cruise I went on was a Carnival ship back in May. The only pool on that deck was something you could only dip your body into and hope to be close to an edge. This ships had multiple pools, and H2O Zone for the kids, two HUGE hottub spas on either side, plus other hot tubs on the deck near the HUGE big screen (which generally played sports).

On top of that, the Liberty of the Seas is one of few Royal Caribean Cruises with a Flowrider (which my husband took full advantage of every day). There's also a mini golf course, volleyball and basket ball court, rock climbing wall, ect. Absolutely amazing.

One of the first tours we went on was the spa tour. We got to veiw all the different treatments, the salon, and the gym (Which we'd be getting around to at some point - I DID pack accordingly, so the thought was there). Afterwards we signed up for a couples massage on the 4th day and I was to go to a beauty appointment the next day.