Girl's Cruise

It started out with 2.

Karen and Nicole, aka Thelma and Louise, crash at the Double Tree Hotel, Tampa.

Then we headed out to the port.  We boarded the Carnival Inspiration.

All 72 of us.
Yup.  S-e-v-e-n-t-y t-w-o.  70 women and 2 husbands.  {Those 2 husbands did make it back to Tampa.  I was really taking bets that they would bail in Cozumel and leave the girl's cruise to the girls, but they had some real staying power.}

This is the city we left behind.  Sailing out of Tampa into the Caribbean.  One stop in Cozumel, Mexico, and a whole lot of ocean!

Karen, Heather, and Lisa

These ladies kept laughing for 5 days straight.  It was contagious.  I would lie in bed awake at night rubbing the soreness out of my cheeks.

Nicole, Sarah, Marsie, Cara, and Heather...formal night dining

These ladies, or rather girls, made me 16 again.  Especially Jill in the background making the bunny ears!  We soaked up every minute of our time.  No kids, no clocks, no husbands, no schedule, no problem.  We relived our best times as teens and caught up on the last decade of raising families.  We played the "what happened to so-and-so" game until we had a million new stories to process.  We enjoyed the cruise, but found ourselves continuously unaware of what was going on around us, as we talked, and laughed, and cried, because we were laughing so hard.  Unforgettable.  Girl's Cruise 2010!