Cruise

Man, I never knew that I would ever get up earlier then I do for school… I had my alarm set for 5:45 so we could make it to Galveston for our cruise. When I say our, there was Dad, Elliot, Caitie, Austin, Rachel Joe and me. We drove in 2 cars, my little truck and my dads Audi. Me Joe and Caitie were in my truck rockin out while the rest sat quietly in my dad’s car. It was a five hour drive and a two hour wait in line to get on the ship. Galveston looked horrible.. Imagine a zombie infestation going through the city, then being cleared out. Most all of the buildings had blown out windows and there was debris everywhere. Talk about creepy. I’ve watched too many zombie movies.
The Ship was nice though :)
We were sailing on the Carnival Ecstasy. It was a nice ship, I liked it better then the last cruise ship I was on, but I am not picky.
Throughout the week, (I was gone Monday-Friday) I had a blast. There weren’t many other kids on the ship around my age. But that didn’t bother me because I had my brothers and Joe to chill with. The other teens around my age that were on that ship, I met and befriended. There were three girls named Kasey, Kayce and Katie. Whenever I saw them I’d call them the KKK. They were cute but immature and there parents did not want them hanging out with me. Maybe it was because I looked and passed on the ship as a 19 year old :)
I played game after game of chess with everyone. It was great; I am getting a lot better. My dad can’t beat me anymore. I even did better them him in the casino!
Every time I found my dad sleeping, I would bust out my camera and video waking him up. I have about 5 videos of him sleeping all over the ship. Speaking of sleeping, I woke up early every day. It was actually nice getting to see the sunrise, which only happened once though. The dark blue open water with white capping waves as far as the normal eye can see was so beautiful. That is the one thing I looked forward to most on the ship.
For being on a cruise, I ate very healthy. I didn’t order any type of red meat on the ship at dinner time. And the fruit was wonderful on the ship also.
I did bring the homework I had from English class, and every time I started to miss school and the cool friends I have made, I would take it out look at it and start laughing really hard saying “Hahahaha!! All my friends still have to do this stuff right now in school!!” that always made me feel better. I still haven’t finished all of it and I don’t think I will.
All around, I had a extremely memorable time and I cant wait to do it again.