St Thomas Virgin Islands

St Thomas the US Virgin Islands is a beautiful pearl. We took the Blackbeard castle tour and we went to a garden at the top of the island where we has my first banana daiquiris and a rum punch while we toured the garden, We went to a look out over Megan's Bay. Then onto to Blackbeard Castle and the Rum factory and a tour of 4 houses on the premises. They told us how Blackbeard and his pirates protected St Thomas. The grounds were beautiful. The bronze statues of the pirates. The rum factory and the rum tastings was Leigh's favorite part. The whole tour and the island was just great and I saw my first Guiana.  St Thomas was the very best part of our cruise.

Freedom of the Seas Cruise

The Freedom of the Seas is the most beautiful ship we have ever been on. It had over 4000 passengers and 2000 crew.  The staff was so excellent from our stateroom staff the wait staff and everyone in between.
I never felt so pampered in my whole life.

I loved the solarium and the 2 hot tubs that hang over the side of the ship.   I loved that they had a fully equipped pool side for the kids and for the adults separate. The shopping ares was like a stroll in the mall. They had several bars with different themes. A dance club. A theater and the dining rooms were gorgeous. The food in the dining room was excellent. My only complaint was the buffet area was not as good. In fact the Carnival cruise we went on had much better food in the buffet are. But everything else was superior.

The first stop was suppose to be Coco Cay in the Bahamas.  But when we got there the winds were so high we could not go ashore. We were really disappointed with that because we had bought snorkeling gear for our stay on the island as I heard the snorkeling was good.  But we went on to St Thomas. The extra time on the ship was fun.