This was our huge ship, the Oasis, which was positively fabulous. I've never seen anything like it before. Over 32 places to eat on it for one thing! They've upgraded the staterooms and the beds were so comfy too. I had a wonderful time until Friday, the day before we got back in port. We were in a connecting balcony stateroom and the person on the other side was a constant smoker. I started getting very congested from it on Thursday and by noon on Friday, had a full-blown asthma attack. I ended up in the ship's infirmary which was like a hospital! My BP was 190/92, almost stroke like which tells you how badly I couldn't breathe. I had never been that bad before. They gave me pure oxygen and TWO breathing treatments. I was back in there 4 hours later for another breathing treatment before I felt better. It was very expensive but I do have trip insurance so hopefully, it will help out. At any rate, it was well worth what I paid as I was in bad shape. I'm now on cortisone again and a z-pack and the congestion is finally breaking up. Right now, I never want to be around ciggy smoke again, at least when it's in my face. Very scary. Before all that happened, the week was wonderful though.
Here I am at our first dress up dinner wearing my new Suze Weinberg necklace which I love. The food was very good on the trip and I actually ended up losing weight as I ate almost nothing the last two days.
I didn't go on this flowrider but it was on the ship!
This was the beautiful port of Labbadee, Haiti. We floated in the ocean all day and it was wonderful. One beach directly on the ocean was very rocky but then we found this lagoon which was sandy and we floated there.
The water was coolish and so refreshing and beautiful. That's me, Jo and Trish in the middle of the pic on the float rental which was $12 and well worth it.
Arlyne and I eating rum banana bread and coffee in Falmouth, Jamaica. Loved that island and enjoyed being there again though last time I was in Ochos Rios.
YES! I won this, the second day in the casino!! I took $200 with me to gamble and I actually came home with $213.00 so I did well for all the playing I did- very exciting.
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One of many pools on the ship!
One of two rock climbing walls. No, I didn't do it! This was in the Surf Theater where we had a fabulous show with Olympic swimmer and divers.
We also got to see HAIR SPRAY and it was terrific. All the shows on the ship were terrific and there were many.
This was Falmouth's port which was just opened this year. Doesn't the water look artificial? It was gorgeous. My tour guide told us that when the Oasis came in for the first time last winter, the whole town showed up, sitting on roofs and everywhere, to see the ship. It was so immense- 3 football fields long.
Beautiful bloom in Jamaica!
If you ever have a chance to take a cruise on the Oasis or the sister ship, the Allure, do it! You will love it. It does always go out of the Ft. Lauderdale port. Leaving that port last Saturday was so pretty and we saw some beautiful homes...
I started out this sad day, watching some of the 9/11 tv reports but finally had to turn it off as it was sad. We will always remember where we were and what we were doing that day I'm sure.
I'm glad to be home, glad to be breathing again and very happy to see my pups. Jane did a wonderful job taking care of the house and the dogs. I'm so lucky to have her so I can go off.
My next trip is weekend after next, up to Lake Panasoftkee for a crop and I'll be happy to see the girls. This was my first cruise without any of the scrap girls on it and I missed them though I had a wonderful time with Arlyne's group. She did a fabulous job being our cruise director! And I'm so glad she found the ring she bought in Jamaica that she thought she lost!
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