Oasis of the Seas... Cruise 2010

We have just finished our cruise on the Oasis of the Seas!!!! WOW, WOW, WOW... we had the best time ever and will have a hard time ever cruising on another ship (much to Craig's dismay.. he has a firm grip on his wallet right now!) It was definately worth the money, in my opinion!! The ship is just amazing... TONS to do (we did not do half of what was offered) great food, AMAZING show, performers and the perfect weather. (It rained one day in Costa Maya and for literally 20 minutes)
I will post about our trip by going day by day... this may take me all week to finish cuz as you know we are going home to two precious kids who will consume ALL my time this next week... so I hope to have our cruise blogged by the end of the month!!!! :)
I will start with the day we left....
SATURDAY
4:30 am... we are up, showered and ready to leave... Bright eyed and bushy tailed ready to just HOP on that plane and zip on down to Ft. Lauderdale... easy, right??? welllll.... not so much
Our flight was delayed out of Birmingham... and then we SAT on the TARMAC in Atlanta for 30 minutes BECAUSE a passenger on another plane that was parked at our gate decided they did not want to go on their trip and got off the plane SOOO they had to get their luggage off that plane before they could leave OUR gate... thus the reason for our additional 30 minute delay!!! AHHHH.. and so commenced the first bout of SOBBING from me.... we were going to miss our connecting flight for sure... We get to the gate and literally RUN to the next gate but of course we are on concourse E and our connecting flight...... yep concourse B!!!! And of course I chose cute over comfort in the shoe department!!! (my high wedges were not my friend at that moment)... So we RUN... and get to the gate 10 minutes before take off and the plane is still there... BUT the door is closed and NO agent to help us and so the plane takes off without us because they gave away our seats!!!! So we go to the helpful (not) Delta customer service and they kindly (not) put us on STAND BY for the next flight.... (even though a group behind us, going on the same cruise, go after us and get actual tickets on the next flight... I mean how does that happen?) Well, we do NOT get on the next flight... SOBBING continues and little louder and harder at this point.. because if we do not get on the next flight we will surely miss the boat, because after calling the cruise line, they inform us they will NOT let us on after 4:00...
Craig, being the quite rock, that he is just shakes his head and says there is nothing we can do... WHAT????? he is at this point PLEADING with the agents to help a "poor guy with a sobbing wife" out just this one time... NO LUCK... so we sit and wait as they start boarding the next flight... more sobbing... all zones are boarded.... SOOOOOBBBBBBIIIIINNNNGGGGG.... then like a ray of light cutting through the clouds they call "Mattox... please get in line" I seriously heard angels singing.... thank goodness... and I know I am a bit overdramatic... but seriously we spent a lot of money on this trip and I had spent many hours of planning, researching, and reserving for this getaway... not to mention we definately needed a vacation.
so we made the flight... got to Ft. Lauderdale.. our luggage was there waiting on us and so was Royal Carribbean with the bus to take us to the pier!!!!
so with all of that we made it on the ship and my first stop:



hey I deserved it right???
to be continued.....