TRAVEL: My First Cruise (Mexico & Belize) Home: greenlightwrite.com featuring |
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My friends and I drove from Oklahoma City to Houston, Texas, leaving bright and early at 11:00 am one fine April Saturday. The next morning, it was on to nearby Galveston for a quick city tour before hitting the beach. Even so, we got to the Port of Galveston early in order to avoid a long line of embarking passengers. After half an hour's wait, we got aboard the good Carnival ship Elation – just in time for lunch in the informal Tiffany's Bar and Grill that features everything from pizza to Chinese. We explored the ship until the 4:00 life boat drill, found a live game show, ate dinner and relaxed in a hot tub. Our luggage didn't arrive until just before bedtime. After Monday's breakfast, we checked out the Arcade and then we went swimming in the salt water pool. It wasn't the most fun thing to swim in so it was back to the hot tubs. As evening approached, it was time to dress for our second (later) sitting in the formal dining room – this is a good choice for those days when you go off on a shore excursion and don't want to rush to dinner afterward. I was amazed by the tons of silverware (just watch someone else at your table to select the right utensil) and the fact that waiters put the napkin in your lap. We changed clothes after dinner and hit the teen club, but since there was no one there our age we left pretty quickly and ended up at the Karaoke bar to thrill the audience with our versions of songs by Blink 182, Martina McBride, Afro Man, Avril Lavinge and Aretha Franklin. When the ship arrived in Progresso, Mexico, we went to a downtown deli that didn't refrigerate everything. Flies were everywhere. I was scared I would swallow some if I opened my mouth. The beach was better. The water wasn't too cold and we ate authentic salsa. We also got to witness some of our fellow cruisers buying drugs. The next day in Cozumel, Mexico, we took a boat out to Passion Island. It was breathtakingly beautiful. The water was so clear we could see right through it. We bought some goggles and went diving for white flubbery things that burrowed in the sand. In Belize City, Belize, we took a city tour. One of the unusual high points was a plant whose boiled flower petals are used to prevent bed wetting — they call it "the pee in the bed plant!" Our voyage back to Galveston meant two days of the Arcade, the hot tubs and Karaoke. Although the ship docked at 8:00, we couldn't disembark until 11:00 a.m. That set us up for the long drive home. Would I go cruising again? Yes, it was a lot of fun, but I'd pick the shore excursion to the Mayan ruins at Chichen-Itza or Uxmal or nearby Dzibilchltun from Progresso and the jungle tour in Belize.
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