the.amanda.sewell

  We woke up, had breakfast, got drinks to take with us and then decided to lounge out on the deck and listen to music on my ipod.  It was so loud and crazy on the upper Lido deck all the time, but we discovered on a lower deck, it was shady and just perfect.  The water was so swirly and cool.  It was also so strange that we could see only water all around us.  We did lunch and then met up with some friends that we met the night before at the show, the Stockwell's and played some mini golf.               3 pm it was time to go to The Pinkerton Diaries reading.  They made it a ticketed event and hubby got lucky and so we got to go.  When we walked in, there was this tiny bench in front with no table, so Michael asked if anyone was sitting there, and they weren't so we sat.  It was SO perfect and right in front and I got some great pictures.  It was such a unique experience. ...

It seriously feels like I have been waiting for weeks for this to come, and we are HERE!  We checked in at about 11 am, and our rooms aboard the ship were not going to be ready till after noon, so we chilled out on the deck overlooking Miami.  It was really relaxing already.  We ate some food.  We finally got to take our stuff to our room, and then we had to head to our muster stations for a safety briefing and after what happened with the Costa Concordia , I wanted to make sure we were there.     Michael when we first boarded and right after I got him to put on some flip flops :-) Port of Miami After the safety briefing, we headed upstairs to the Lido deck right away and managed to get a fantastic spot to view the outdoor sail away show.  Weezer was AMAZING!!  As if I expected anything less than that!    Crowd gathered waiting for the show to begin View of stage from where we were standing Rivers getting...