A Surprise Well Worth The Secrets
Over the last nine months or so, our family (and friends of our family) had been keeping a big secret. This was the “over the hill” year for my mother and my father wanted to do something that she wouldn’t soon forget.
When the idea of a surprise party was quickly shot down, my father decided to think bigger (and inherently more complicated). Bigger … in the way of a cruise ship big …
So for the last nine months, we have all lied and snuck around, getting our passports, packing clothes and making all of the last minute arrangements for something we hoped would go off without a hitch!
Finally, D-Day had arrived and little did my mother know, we all stayed in the same hotel as my parents the night before boarding the ship. The finally boarded and we followed about two hours behind them. With a couple sneaky calls, we secretly found my parents and decided to surprise my mom … not once … but twice. We sent out the friends of the family and she was excited to see them onboard. As she was still in a bit of amazement, we struck again …
Needless to say, all of the secrets we kept and the lies we told over the last nine months were well worth the reaction we got:
Later on that night (sometime around dinner), we think the reality finally started to set in! Over the next week, we enjoyed incredible food, service and excursions that let us see things like never before! Here are just a few of the shots we took during our week long vacation on the high seas!
This floating city (the ship) was so big that no matter where I stood here in Key West, I couldn’t get the entire ship in the view finder at once! Wish I had a wide angle and my DSLR!
As far south in the continental US as we could go!
The four of us with two of the best tour guides in Cozumel!
All of us with the guys that made each night an absolute pleasure!
