Stampin' Up! Cruise 2010 - Embarkation Day

I have so many fun photos to share with you from our Stampin’ Up! Cruise to the Caribbean last week. We were on the Royal Caribbean line ship: Adventure of the Seas. It was a WONDERFUL week and we are so grateful to Stampin’ Up! for the opportunity to earn such an amazing trip each year!!

It is amazing to realize that only 1% of all Stampin’ Up! demonstrators earn the Incentive trips!! I have worked hard for many years to build my Stampin’ UP! business to achieve this yearly incentive trip.

DAY 1 – EMBARKATION DAY

We flew from San Francisco (via Houston) to San Juan, Puerto Rico and stayed one night prior to going to the ship at the Pan American dock. It was soooo fun to see other demonstrators in the hotel and at the dock!! And I even got to see Puerto Rican demonstrator Magdamari before we got on the ship! 🙂

We waited in a couple lines prior to boarding the ship, and a strap on my husband’s backpack got stuck in the xray machine.. it held up the line for awhile and I finally said, “Just go ahead and cut off that end of the strap”… otherwise I think we still may have been standing there! I don’t think Eric was too pleased, but there was no way that strap was coming unstuck!

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My son enjoyed all of the signs en Espanol … he’s taken many years of Spanish in school. He was able to practice speaking in spanish to a few cruise staff and island natives, too!

This was our table in the 3 story dining room… as we walked around the ship that day we went to see where our table would be. Our dining tablemates were Jan & Doug Wakeland and Stella & Doug MacKay.

When we arrived at our cabin, we were greeted with this great magnet on the door!

and here is our little home away from home for that week:

Then of course we needed a little “sail away” toast to a fabulous week ahead:

Here are views from the center of the Promenade looking both ways.. it’s like a shopping mall on a ship, complete with several stores, Ben & Jerrys, sports bar, pub, bakery, etc. !!!!

here is yours truly being really silly pretending to take a bite of the HUGE Johnny Rockets burger – I think my son was mortified when I asked him to take this photo 🙂

Prior to dinner, Stampin’ Up! hosted a sail away party called THE BIG HELLO.. it was on the floor of the ice rink (which was covered with a wood floor).. more about the ice rink in a few days.