Our Boat: Liberty of the Seas

Seriously? How ugly is this boat? We just spent this much money for this thing? were my first thoughts as the taxi brought us to the pier. The boat was immense and for some reason, didn't seem very dynamic, amazing, fun, or really, even clean. It was the balcony part of the boat that I was having trouble with. I hid my thoughts and turned a bright smile to my family stepping out of the taxi we had just taken from the Marriott to the boat. We were on our way to a week of family fun; it was easy to let that thought take hold.

The boat turned out to be absolutely amazing! It was a brillant, floating machine. And it turned out to be quite clean. We had a room with a window that framed our bed on the 3rd floor. The kids had the room next door. This worked out quite well as it had a door between the rooms and we had two bathrooms instead of one! The boat had everything a girl could want. It had a spa, two pools, workout room, a track on deck 12, numerous bars with servers walking around to wait on you at your chair, a dining room, cafes, and best of all kids camps! What's not to love.

We had a wonderful steward, David, who took quite good care of us in our rooms. He made our rooms up twice a day and made fun little animals out of our towels and sunglasses. One night Brenna left her doll, Lulu, in our room as we went to dinner and we came home "to our room" to find that David had made our bed and tucked Lulu in and made the room around her. We laughed hardily and enjoyed David's fun spirit. As our boat left Florida, and we had partied on deck 12 to say bon voyage, we wandererd around trying to get acclimated. We ended up at the front of the boat, what it's called I already have forgotten, but we were simply in awe of the ship, the ocean and our week ahead! The coast guard escorted us out of the bay which was quite a site to see them flanking our sides with guns in hand on the decks of their boats. Everybody was watching that happen.

What was really cool is that we were able to witness an event that probably not many people noticed. As we were at the front of the boat, shortly after all of hte others had left we saw a small boat come up to the rear of our cruise ship and we saw a man jump into it. Luckily there was a cruise employee and we were able to ask him what was taking place. Apparently, the cruise captain can't take the boat out of the bay--the "pilot" has to do that. So, what we saw was the boat picking him up. It's those little things that really make an experience complete. Let's see if you know this: Who do you think would have been the one who wanted to go exploring the front of the ship? Yeah, thanks Andy.














Brenna sitting in the hallway by our room waiting for the rest of us to catch up to her.

Our room with the cutest little "bug" in it.
At the front of the boat.
Saying good-bye in Miami.

The dining room: we ate in the Rembrandt dining room on the 3rd floor. Our waitre's name was Cat and he was from Romania. I don't remember seeing one cruise employee from the United States; they were all from foreign countries which seemed a little more exciting.