The start of Spring Break

Last year for spring break I hung around at our house...we were still doing a lot of repairs from the great flood so I spent the week painting trim and putting out house back together.  But this year...

 We went cruising!

The trip started out as an adventure before we even got to Florida!  After a quick stop in Savannah we hit the road and got a call from the Parks and Rawlins (riding in the Rawlin's Tahoe behind us) and they said the transmission in the Tahoe had gone out.  So, we found a transmission place where we could leave the car and pick it up the following Sunday.  Then the guys had to pick up a rental car for us to drive the rest of the way to Florida.

After we loaded up the MINI-VAN we were on the road again

 By the time we got to Port Canaveral it was almost dinner time so we ate then went to bed because we would have to be up early to catch the shuttle to the boat.  You should have seen the amount of luggage that eight people can carry for one week!  It was a little insane.  Haha.

Once we got on the Freedom of the Seas we had to find a place to camp out until they would let us into our rooms.  

 After we were finally able to drop off our carry-on luggage in our rooms we explored the ship. Rick and Mike found the gym and told us that's where we could find them all week.

Then we had to "muster" and practice what we would do if the ship was sinking.  They made sure we knew that our captain was not from Italy!  

Here's an interesting fact about our week...the last night we were on the boat was the 100 year anniversary of the Titanic sinking!  Good thing there were no icebergs in sight...hehe.  We had such a fun week with more posts to come...there's no way anyone would want to sit and look at all the pictures from our vacation in one sitting.