$$Big Motha-Our Ship$$

We cruised from Miami through the Caribbean on the decks of

Explorer of the Seas

It's the largest cruise ship in the world, owned by the Royal Caribbean.  Compared to the measely Carnival fleet, our ship is Goliath and breathed a mint of gold.

In Ya Face!  With 13 decks, hundreds of stairs, and elevators that we rarely used (they were sooo slow while helping other needy passengers), this ship has it all.

Oh yeahhhh.  The pools were washed every night.  They were salt water strait from the ocean and the hot tubs were 'un poco caliente'....pues, MUCH CALIENTE!  The hot tubs were very hot, and relaxing after working out in the universal gym and on the basketball court.  That's where the ladies tended to be, so you know us men were there an awful lot...'Cept we were mostly there at night, which explains my NOT getting much of a tan :(

This is the 'seaport,' which is nothing more than a terminal very semilar to the ones at an airport except it works with ships.

You see that bug in the background?  That there is the pride and joy of the Carnival fleet-the S.S. Norway.  Remember her?  She's the one whose oilers exploded.  Oh yah, our fog horns, ha, they were about 10 times louder than the Norway's. In Cozumel, our ship towered the neighboring Carnival that only had wooden decks (ewww) and one tiny hot tub.  This picture is of our ship's sister, the same size, but I can't remem it's name.  We were on the JEWEL OF THE SEAS!

The inside of the ship is even greater than the outside.  It hosts several dining rooms the size of ice rinks, a mini-mall, a really small ice rink, and much more!  Lok at all that color, its like a rainbow!

For those losers who have to read on vacation, and for me who had to email certain peeps, they've got a library and an extremely costly computer room for browsing the net.  I actually spent a lil' time in the library....just keepin up on the news from the Times.

Coast Guard's getting ready for our takeoff...

And we're OUTTA HERE!