Month: December 2009

As I finish up packing some last few things, I begin to pack my camera equipment into a backpack. For this trip I decide to leave the Pelican case behind and load everything into my backpack. That’s a laptop, a couple of cameras, batteries and power supply. Wife is wondering if we are going on vacation or work! However, she forgets, I like taking photos!

Its raining outside and has been the entire week, looking forward to the Caribbean warm weather! The photos right now on this site are stock photos of the ship, can’t wait to add many, many more of my own! I’ll try to update it daily, but depending on my schedule it may be every other day.

Oasis of the Seas departs out of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The first 2-3 days we are at sea, then our first stop will be Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas (U.S. Virgin Islands), then the following day arrive at Philipsburg, St. Maarten, (Dutch/French island), our next stop will be Nassau, Bahamas. Then finally arriving at Ft. Lauderdale. This is our first cruise and looking forward to it, 7 days at sea, or at least a large floating resort!

I am so excited, tomorrow night we will be flying out to Ft. Lauderdale to go on a 7-day cruise on the Oasis of the Seas. Royal Caribbean’s latest and largest ship, actually the largest ship in the world, will be heading out on Saturday for its second full 7 day voyage. I’m going to be taking lots of photos and video.

If everything goes well, I’ll be posting daily and showing everyone my photos of the day. I plan to take a digital SLR and two compact point & shoot cameras. The ship is so large with a capacity of over 6000 guests, lots of pools, a zip line, central park and a boardwalk! Funny thing happened, we booked a simple ocean view stateroom “guarantee”. I have never been on a cruise, so it didn’t really matter which

room I got, and since it cost about $200 less than if I had chosen the exact room, with the guarantee I allowed them to choose one for me and I save the money. Well, we lucked out because several weeks later I find out that they upgraded us to a boardwalk balcony stateroom! That one was selling for over $500 more than what the stateroom we originally wanted!

So we are flying out Friday night on Virgin America, love flying that airline! As soon as we get on board, you should start to see some original photos!