The Cruise

So we left for our cruise on Thursday out of NYC harbor. It was really cool to see the city from the water as we pulled away. I was really impressed with New Yorker's ability to create "normal" life in a big city...check out the driving range below that is part of a pier on the Hudson River...how cool is that?!

Our cruise was on the Carnival Victory. It was a HUGE ship, so Garin tells me...I've never been on one to compare it to. It had 13 decks complete with everything you could ever imagine on a ship. The first day we were out to sea for the entire day and then the second day we arrived at Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Saint John wasn't the most exciting place to visit. The only cool thing is that it sits on the Bay of Fundy which has some of the largest tide differentials in the world(like 20 feet!). This large change in tides actually causes a pretty neat phenomenon with the Saint John river called the "Reversing Falls." Its tough to explain so check out this website: http://www.new-brunswick.net/Saint_John/reversingfalls/reversing.html. We went there when it was almost high tide, so there wasn't a whole lot of excitement going on.

After we visited the falls we took a hike around Saint John. It is some historical city for Canada I think...but it wasn't exactly the most exciting place to just walk around...pretty, but nothing different or really cool. As you can see below, our cruise ship was about as big as the city...maybe that is trick photography, but it really wasn't that large of a city.


After our awesome day at Saint John (we got back on the boat at 2:30 and never left again even though the boat didn't embark until 8 that night...that's how exciting it was) the next day was another fun day at sea as we headed back to New York. Since you're on a boat and can't really do anything they have all kinds of activities you can participated in. Garin agreed to go to a dance class with me...we learned a sixties dance. It wasn't exactly what we were expecting (we thought it would be couples dancing) but it was fun nonetheless. Garin was a good sport and I was proud of him.
After our super fun day at the sea the next day we arrived in New York again (it was only a 4 day cruise) where we navigated our way back to Erin and Wayne's to pick up our car and head for another adventure in Boston.