Showing posts with label Vacation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vacation. Show all posts

Thursday, January 22, 2009

My Carnival Legend Cruise (Random Boat Stuff)

Casino: I won 75 dollars on the slots and I won 200 dollars playing roulette, but then i lost 450 dollars being greedy so all in all the casino got about 150 dollars of mine.... DOH! But it is okay because I had a blast playing for seven days so it was worth it. Everytime I won in roulette there was this beautiful peru dealer who was soooo sweet and funny, her name was Josetti and we could not leave the ship without taking a picture with her...


On the Boat: The staff was great and very accomidating....the drinks were amazing!!! Our room was great, we had a extended balcony (and i will never cruise without a balcony ever again). Although there wasnt many people our age we found some college students who we played beer pong with and clubbed with lter that night. Me and my cousins entered about every trivia contest and tournament the boat offered. But overall we had a great time. We won a few of the plastic ship thingys but i think we ended up throwing them away. Here i leave you with some miscillaneous pictures from the cruise...

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

My Carnival Legend Cruise (Belize & Honduras)

Belize: Dont Get Off the Boat... or out of the Gates! Worst stop ever.... Carnival really needs to consider taking this port off of the list. It is truly a poor nasty country, the people are rude if you dont let them braid your hair or if you dont buy their crappy jewelry. They have a gate around the port where they set up some overpriced vendors for you to shop at, and they put a sign up saying leave out the gates at your own risk. All in all we left the port early so me and my cousins can go to the mini golf tournament back on the ship. Sidenote: The sell so many bad knock off purses here its ridiculous...


Roatan, Honduras: One of the best stops thus far, the shopping was good, the homes by the beach were BEAUTIFUL and the beaches was amazing! Although coming off the boat, the tour guides were so aggresive that we almost turned around to get back on the boat, but we decided to go on a tour with a guy whos name I cant remember and it was surprisingly nice. He took us around the whole island and the culture there is so amazing. They are building some new homes and condos there that makes me want to pack up and move there right now. Tabayanna Beach was absolutely beautiful, with white sand and crystal clear water we ordered margaritas and had a very nice time there. Our tour guide also took us to the iguana farm which scared me half to death, i mean literally the iguanas would walk all around you eww, next to the farm was a peir with nothing but barracodda and lobsters around it... that was truly interesting. 



My Carnival Legend Cruise (Cayman Islands and Cozumel)

Cayman Islands: Our first stop was the cayman islands. It was a nice stop, but it was verrrry americanized. We went on an island tour by a local guy name Frenchie and he showed us some of the slums, and some of the very luxurious parts, and the beautiful blue beaches. But more importantly he took us to the tortuga rum factory, which is the home of the best rum cake!! The tour cost 100 bucks for everyone which was 12 people. All in all the caymans was a decent stop. It was nothing to special, the island had some good but overpriced conch fritters and I got to see a preview of hell (its what they call the black rocks there) muhahaha....



Cozumel: Well I've been to Cozumel before, so this port was no surprise. I always love this port and it is always consistent. Good, cheap shopping and beautiful beaches and weather. This time I went to cozumel I did something different, well we always go downtown and in the back neighborhoods to shop, but this time we ate at a local restaurant. I was soooo nervous I was gonna get sick, but the place was clean and cool and they had 3 for 1 margaritas, so we figured why not. But i must say, eating AUTHENTIC mexican food was not too shabby. The margaritas was delicious and strong and the food was no taco bell.  But anyways I bought a few scarfs a mexican blanket and some jewelry, but here are the pics from this stop:





My Carnival Legend Cruise (Food and Such)

Well I went on the Carnival Legend in November of 2008 and I have procrastinated posting about it for way too long.... I had a pretty good time of the cruise overall with some parts being way better than others. I went on the 7 day cruise with my mom, dad, two uncles, two aunts, my cousin Julia and my cousin Darius which was quite an experience because my uncles are a HOOT! Our port of calls were Cayman Islands, Cozumel, Belieze and Roatan-Honduras.. Here was the ruise in the eyes of a 21 year old...

FOOD: The food was soooooo good! I mean i am a cheeseburger and fries kind of girl so that is what i ate like 3 times a day.... ohhhhh how i crave a cheeseburger with mushrooms.... any ways... the dinner in the dining room was pretty good, not great but i give it a grade of a B+. But on lobster night i was sooo embaassed and amused because my uncle and cousin darius had 5 reorders of the lobster! I didnt even know that was possible. But our waiter was very friendly and very accomidating if we ever wanted another portion of anything.... Oh and by the way the Chocolate Melting Cake is not what it is cracked up to be.. it was waaayyy to chocalately :( anywho here are some pics of the food and dining:


By the way the last picture was suppose to be a "smoothie" but this is what they brought us :(
By the way thanks Julia for some of the pics.


 
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