• We found our room on the 10th floor with a balcony
• Walked the ship to get our bearings
• Bought our coke and coffee cards to use all week (it’s cheaper cuz you have to pay for drinks on these floating hotels)
• Found out what a “muster station” was (a place you meet before you drown) and how to use your life vest if we have a titanic episode
• Found our dinner table.. 8:15 pm at number 278 for the week and met our waiter- Thomas from Hungary.

Lots and lots of fun… and tons of anticipation in the air on our first cruise, our first time to the Caribbean and a week of full on laziness and fun.

Anyway, this first one is a photo collage of our first day arriving in Galveston, Texas.

We met our new traveling party, our old friends Will, Jill, Elyshia, and Andrew in At the airport in Houston, Texas. We also met Jeff and Lisa for the first time: two new friends for us who are former coworkers and long time college/wedding party friends of Will and Jill. We then took a crazy cab ride to Galveston, about an hour away to the Hotel Galvez. Each couple had their own cab because evidently we missed the shuttle that Princess Cruises had for arriving guests – so they sent us in cabs instead. One cab got lost, one cab got a ticket, and few were driven like ours- by some guy who evidently believed there are two ways to drive a cab: full throttle and coasting. He alternated between the two the entire one hour drive.

Anyway, once we finally got there, we had a nice dinner, a good nights sleep, lots of anticipation in the air, and a lovely breakfast to start off an amazing, relaxing, and must do again kind of week.