Our Exciting Cruise to Nowhere!!!!

The week of April 27th to May 2nd we were able to take a fabulous cruise on the Carnival ship Ecstasy! Although we had great excursions planned on our stops in Progresso and Cozymel we had so much better of a time hanging out on the boat the entire five days! The week of our cruise was the entire swine flu outbreak. Carnival canceled all stops to any Mexican ports the day after we left Galveston. Thank goodness we had a fun group to hang out with for the five days in the Gulf of Mexico. Three of my brothers and their wives came too and tons of fun was had by all. We could not have asked for better people to travel with! Thanks everyone for letting us tag along!!!!

Creepy boy Ryan decided to shave his beard to this before the cruise and shave his chest hair too!

This is the group in Houston and Eric and Wendy's before we left!!!

Our first dinner on the cruise! I think we all had a couple entrees each along with several desserts!! Yum Yum!!

That night we all got comfortable and put headed to the card room and played cards while listening to comedy that Mike downloaded onto his ipod!

DAY 2

We all kind of did our own things for most of the day and met up here and there. We played minature golf, volleyball, shuffle board and just hung out on the deck by the pool. It was a very relaxing day!

Some of the group decided to do an Austin Powers dance class! They looked great up on stage!

Tonight was our formal dinner night and we loved our waiter Juan! Every night at dinner he would give us some sort of riddle to figure out. It drove me crazy because he would not tell us the answer until the next night! He was great!

Mike for the life of him cannot keep his eyes fully open for any pictures. Wendy was laughing so hard at him! Every picture she took his right eye would partly close anticipating the flash! What a goof ball!

What a good lookin couple!!

More beautiful Bushmans!

The babies of the group! Cute babies though don't you think!!!

Nice Family!!!

We finished the night with card playing again! What a fun day!!!

DAY 3

We all hung out together here and there and did the usual of laying out on the deck and playing games. Fortunately we became very good at all the trivia games they had to offer on the ship! I did not take many pictures this day!

All the girls after hanging out on deck!

Gotta love the towel animals!!!

DAY 4

We all had breakfast together today! Of coarse we played more games and just hung out and listened to everyone on the boat complain about not stopping anywhere. We actually made it a fun trip despite the fact we never got off!

I never eat breakfast so this was a treat every morning!!!

Wendy decided to do a karaoke this night. It was hilarious! She pick an M and M song that had tons of cuss words in it. She tried hard to keep up but it was too dang fast. She just kept laughing in the microphone, "Oh I am not going to say that." It was so funny!!!

What a cute little bunny!

Throughout the cruise we played many games! We started to get quite a collection of trophies and medals!

Some of the winnings!!!

These were called the famous Ship on the Stick trophies. We actually accrued quite alot of these!!!

More game playing!

This is everyone playing one of the Sudoku puzzles the ship had everyday. While I was taking this pictures I stepped on Mike's sunglasses and broke them! Whoops!!!

Mike in his lovely broken sunglasses!!

Later this night Eric and Wendy were lucky enough to get to play the Newlywed game basically in front of the entire ship. It was hilarious!! They were one of three couples picked. One had been married for 5 days and the other for like 25 or 30 years! Eric and Wendy won the game!! It was funny!

The three lovely couples!!!

They won a lovely bottle of Champagne! How cool was that! Afterwards we all went and got sloshed!! JK that night Eric and Wendy traded in their lovely champagne and got all of us virgin daiquiris for dinner!

Our Bling Bling Dinner!!!
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!

We decided on this last night to show off all the winnings of the whole cruise! We proudly wore our medal and carried our trophies held high to show our Smarts! Everyone in the dining room was pretty impressed!

Here we all are so proud with our trophies lining the center of the table!!!

Later that night the three of us decided to do a song at karaoke! Sarah our hip hop queen in the family said that she knew the dance to the video of Brittany Spears Oops I Did It Again! So Allyson and I proudly sung the song while Sarah danced away! What fun!

This is the boys as we were pulling into port in Galveston!

Wendy struttin her stuff while Mike tries to act like he does not know her!

THE LAST BREAKFAST!!!

What an end to a great trip! We had a huge breakfast and each of us gained enough weight to go into hibernation for a year or so.

I stole this from Wendys Blog!!!

Favorite quotes:

Mike walking down the hall: "I know I've gained weight! My belly shakes now and it didn't used to do that when I farted." He meant, "when it started."

Dancing on the pagoda and having Ryan do an MC Hammer move and having the crowd cheer--who knew they were watching us?

"Gilly!!!!" "Sarry!"

"Take Luck!"

"For FREEEEEE?"