Crusing with the guys was wonderful !!!!!

-Seven days, March 14-21,  at sea, leaving from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to the southern Caribbean with four wonderful guys - Dan, Sam, Joe, and Tim. Pictured to the right is the top deck of our ship, the Celebrity Solstice.  It has a large lawn and we were all able to be play bocce, but I did not win the game.

Here we are on St. Patrick's Day morning on the balcony of our room.  Joe has supplied five green Irish hats, which we wore all day, five Guinnesses for breakfast, and sweet Irish music on his IPOD.  Plus we had room service deliver breakfast goodies!  What a treat!!  We started and ended the day singing and drinking with Guinness!

Sam, Joe, and Tim looking mighty fine for their Irish dinner!!!

Playing by the pool and sticking my toes in the cool water.  Each day was sunny and in the 80s!!

In the picture to the right we are leaving Tortola, where all the guys had wonderful snorkeling after taking a taxi ride to a great beach.  I chilled on the ship!  Here we are all cleaned up for dinner and then some serious family board games!  Joe won Rummy Cube, but Tim beat me in Scrabble. Plus frozen drinks for all!!

On the last day we played croquet and Mom almost won!!!  On Labadee, near Haiti, I was able to get my toes in the aqua ocean waters of the Caribbean, thanks to Sam' s strength and everybody's help getting me into a beach wheelchair.  We had a wonderful seven days together, saw fireworks, talked, laughed, played and reminisced!  The air travel was not too bad, the wheelchair was not damaged, and I will probably try flying again some day.  Dan was super with adjusting to new commodes and slings and Hoyer lifts.  We were truly blessed and we are grateful!!!