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    Carnival Freedom 12-day Repo: Full review with 100+ pictures

    in Carnival Cruise Lines

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    Sunrises and Sunsets

     

    As a photographer, I always enjoy the photo opportunities on a Caribbean cruise. Sunrises and sunsets are almost always spectacular. I slept through a few sunrises and was busy eating dinner during a few of the sunsets... but here are a few I did get pictures of:

     

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    Out of all the cruise ship sunrise photos I've ever taken, this has got to be one of my favorites.

    The colors are amazing, and I was lucky that the timing worked just right to get the Today Show logo on the big screen!

     

     

     

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    A beautiful sunrise, as seen from our balcony as the ship was approaching Aruba

     

     

     

     

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    Wow!!! Your pictures are truly amazing . I think someone needs to do am instructional video on YouTube haha.

     

    somone once told me " You will get sick of cruising " I smiled and said

    " Only when I'm dead "

    Wrigley80's Excellent Adventure on the Dream Photo Review - December 4-15, 2014

    in Carnival Cruise Lines

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    I had to share my picture of the Dream .o We did the same itinerary may 2013 and then again in January 2014 ( " free cruise" fairy blessed us:) ). she is by far my favorite ship of all ..like you I enjoy cruising with my parent/parents . My friends say why don't you cruise solo, or with friends ? To me it just wouldn't be the same without them .

     

    somone once told me " You will get sick of cruising " I smiled and said

    " Only when I'm dead "

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    Trikes in Aruba

    in Aruba

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    I would recommend anyone taking this tour to make sure you put sunscreen on your legs BEFORE the tour and at the breaks they give you . I always remember to put sunscreen on my face/arms but didn't think about my legs and thighs and boy did I get burned . Bad thing was it was burned on the front of my legs not the backs haha .. it was funny after the sting went away haha

     

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    GAPearl Goes Solo on the Splendor! 11/1/14 SJU-MIA Repo Cruise Review.

    in Carnival Cruise Lines

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    Yes, I remember most everything. There was a girl on stage with me at the Vegas show that remembered nothing, so everyone will respond differently to the hypnosis. The million dollar question most people have is were you really under? Is this for real? A lot of people think the folks that participate in hypnotist shows are staged actors. Let me say that I have ZERO acting experience and ZERO acting talent. It is absolutely, 120% for real. Also think about this. If we weren't really under, do you think we'd be able to sit there so calm and still while the audience is roaring in laughter?

     

     

     

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    If you ever happen to be on a cruise with Asad, don't be shy. Get up there and participate. Doesn't hurt that he's a hottie. :o

     

     

     

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    After the show I hit up the club for a while. By now I was famous (was all week actually, even with some crew lol). Asad was there and so was Punchliner comedian Donnell Grey. I talked with them for a few minutes and they're both really cool guys. Donnell lives in Atlanta and gave me his card since he performs at some local comedy clubs when he's not on a ship. He said to get in touch with him and he'll hook me up with some tickets. I hope I get to take him up on that offer soon.

     

     

     

    I'm sorry I have to be so blunt but DJ Focus sucked. This was the third night he was playing nothing. but. reggae. Now I love reggae, I really do, but I don't want to hear it ALL night every night! The stuff he was playing tonight wasn't even mainstream reggae. It sounded like some bootleg cd he bought from the trunk of a random guy in Jamaica that recorded his crappy music at his kitchen table. Just bad! He wasn't mixing up the music at all. People were going to him requesting songs, but he wouldn't play them.

     

     

     

    My girl Amberly was like this has got to stop. She went over to him like dude, you've been playing this SAME beat for three days and you have NO ONE one the dance floor! He got an attitude and was like well what do you want me to do? She replied you're the DJ, you figure it out! It was so bad she had a bartender call his boss and told him what was going on. Boss man had a talk with the him and the music was much better after that. As a matter of fact it was better the rest of the cruise. Shout out to Amberly for getting us some good music!

     

     

     

    Finally, some people on the dance floor.

     

     

     

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    Out of my last four cruises, three had terrible DJs. You've got people from different backgrounds and of different ages. A good ship DJ will mix music genres and play a reggae set, a Latin set, a top 40 set, maybe an old school hip hop set, a pop set, then the obligatory wobble and cupid shuffle, you get my drift. Carnival DJs aren't doing this any more. They're not playing what the crowd wants to hear but what they want to hear. I think they need to bring back that partnership with DJ Irie and maybe offer them some extra training, because people are going to the club and not having fun. I could have been a better DJ this cruise with my playlist on my iphone. It all starts with the DJ. In the end it was a fun night and I headed to bed at 2:30 am.

     

     

     

    Tonight's towel animal is a.....dinosaur???

     

     

     

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    Up next: A mermaid, a scuba diver, a student, and Jesus Christ.

     

     

     

    Thanks for continuing to read

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    On my Freedom cruise in June I got hypnotized as well and I agree with you YOUR MIND MUST BE COMPLETELY BLANK in order to do this . And it's really hard to do actually , I can still remember some lady later on in the cruise almost arguing with me since she believed we were all staged and faking the whole thing ..I remembered bits and pieces still of it but not everything though .. I get reminded by my mom that I "shook what my momma gave me" during the "dance competition " part of the show

     

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    someone once told me " you will get sick of cruising " I just smiled and said " Only when I'm dead " 😀

    GAPearl Goes Solo on the Splendor! 11/1/14 SJU-MIA Repo Cruise Review.

    in Carnival Cruise Lines

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    That is way too cool! Yes he's still doing very well. Feel free to hijack any time. :)

     

     

     

     

     

    We had a pretty big disagreement on how something that was in the news recently was handled. I'm not going to go further into too much detail about that situation or either of our opinions on it, but as Monicia as my witness I practically ripped into him when he made some unfair and uninformed statements. And no, it wasn't politics. That discussion was actually rather civil. :p Don't let this princess fool you. I'm a gemini and can go from 0-100 in 0.03 seconds.

     

     

    Never mess with a Gemini ! ( may 31st birthday right here )

     

     

     

    someone once told me " you will get sick of cruising " I just smiled and said " Only when I'm dead " 😀

    In search of wine ...

    in Carnival Cruise Lines

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    This is it seriously ??? Oh my goodness .. Thank you so much !! Sounds kind of crazy but I've been searching for this for a while. I'm a barefoot moscato girl and when I go to fancier restaurants I need something to drink that's more upscale haha

     

     

    someone once told me " you will get sick of cruising " I just smiled and said " Only when I'm dead " 😀

    In search of wine ...

    in Carnival Cruise Lines

    Posted

    I was on the Freedom back in June. Had the most delicious moscato while at the steakhouse ..and of course I didn't write it down .. Does anyone have a picture of the wine list from the Freedom's Steakhouse or know where I can find their wine list at ?? TIA

     

     

    someone once told me " you will get sick of cruising " I just smiled and said " Only when I'm dead " 😀

    !*! FREEDOM !*! Southern Caribbean 6/22/14 -Heavy on photos of 2.0 upgrades & menu

    in Carnival Cruise Lines

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    Would be so great to see your photos too! If you do a review...post it on our roll call page? p.s. I did find you on FB too (stalker alert! :eek:).

     

     

    Haha well in that case friend request me too so I can stalk you haha , a lot of my pics are on fb as well . I would love to see the video from the hypnotist show

     

     

    someone once told me " you will get sick of cruising " I just smiled and said " Only when I'm dead " 😀

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