Sarah Cruise Trip 2013

Sarah and I made our way down to Fort Lauderdale, Florida today as we plan to set sail for our cruise tomorrow morning.

We are staying about 5 miles from the cruise terminal on the beach at the Sheraton Hotel. The hotel is very old and as it turns out, it is a landmark of sorts. The hotel was very popular in the 1950's and was called the Yankee Clipper. There is a bar one level below the pool where they do mermaid shows looking though the underwater pool windows behind the bar. The filmed a scene from the movie Analyze This with Robert DeNiro and Billy Crystal.

After we got settled, we drank a few beers on the balcony of our room and then headed over to Sarah's restaurant choice, Chipotle Mexican Grille. When we got back to our room, the thunderstorms off the Florida coast put on quite a light show.

Tomorrow we get on Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas, which is a monster of a cruise ship with over 5,000 passengers and about 4.5 times the size of the Titanic. We have an ocean balcony room and I am looking forward to ordering breakfast room service on the balcony, relaxing, and doing some reading. Sarah will be doing the rock climbing wall, surf rider wave pool, zip line, ice skating, cupcake chef class, and try her hand in the casino. It should be lots of fun.