Ahh... the day we finally get to board the ship... but first, we had lunch at Bahama Breeze with good friends, Kate and Paul.  They made it up from Tampa for the wedding and then 2 days later, we would have lunch together.  They were kind enough to let us leave our vehicle at their place rather than park at the ship terminal... thank you very much! :)  (Oh, and the ride to the terminal as well... you guys really treated us well!)

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<strong>Bahama Breeze</strong>

I really enjoyed our lunch.  The company was great. The food was good.  The weather co-operated.  What more could we ask for?

As much fun as it was, we had to get to the ship and off on to our destinations: Grand Cayman and Cozumel, Mexico.

Anybody who has flown will be familiar with what we went through to get on the ship except we had to show our passports... (sweet!) and after about 20 minutes or so in line, we were able to board the ship.  What a beauty!

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<strong>A View of Tampa from the ship</strong>

They immediately invited us up to the Lido deck for some lunch while they got our bags to our rooms... i believe it was Italian day but I wasn’t hungry since I had a big lunch at Bahama Breeze.

We got to our room later and got a little unpacked and went and got some stunning sunset photos from the Lido deck

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<strong>Sunset on the Gulf</strong>

There are many more <a href="http://gallery.me.com/webpoet73#100423">pictures</a> to be seen of the ship and of the sunset.