Hello my friends. This is the first entry into Scott & Cissy's Travels Blog. I am setting this blog up to both introduce everyone to Cissy as a travel agent with The Travel Company here in Monroe, LA., and to share with everyone the blessings we've been given and the beauty we've seen on our travels in the last ten years, and going forward. We want everyone to enjoy our beautiful country and the world as we're being blessed to enjoy it, and Cissy can help you by booking your travel and vacation experiences.
We've taken several cruises, and have had numerous vacations inside the boundaries of the Continental United States as well. I'm going to initially focus on cruises, since that is really our favorite type of vacation, but will also include information on recent vacations we've taken as members of the Bluegreen Resorts property owner's club. Most would call that a timeshare club, but Bluegreen is different than a timeshare. Instead of one property where you own that, and if you wish to go elsewhere, have to arrange swaps, in Bluegreen, you are buying actual title to a property, but the property equates to a number of points, which can be used to vacation at Bluegreen's 70+ resorts and exchanged for time at partner organizations like RCI Vacations and Shell properties, who own have thousands of facilities all over the world. I'll say more about that later.
So...let's get started with Cissy and I took our first cruise back in June of 2001, and we have been hooked since. Thus far, we've taken approximately twelve to fifteen cruises each. Cissy has gone on two or three more than me when she, her sister Rona, and her Mom took cruises together when I could not go.
Our most recent cruise was aboard one of our most favorite ships, the Royal Caribbean ship Voyager of the Seas. We sailed from Galveston on March 27, 2011 on a seven day cruise in the Western Caribbean. The cruise itenary took us from the departure port of Galveston, Texas, to our first stop, a brand new port in Falmouth, Jamacia, which is a private port owned by Royal Caribbean Cruises,then to Grand Cayman Island, and finally to Cozumel, Mexico.
This is a picture of the Voyager of the Seas.
It is a beautiful ship, weighting in at 132,000 tons. Voyager is one of the larger ships in the world, and is designed to make a cruise as smooth as possible, even in rough seas.
Just as FYI; Royal Caribbean has the largest ships in the world. The one we sailed on in October/November of last year, the Oasis of the Seas, and her newer sister, the Allure of the Seas, outweigh their closest competitors by nearly 60,000 tons. The Independence class ships in Royal Caribbean's family weigh approximately 160,000 tons, and are the closest to the Oasis class ships, which weigh-in at an amazing 220,000 tons. To give you a comparison, a World War II aircraft carrier weighed approximately 60,000 tons, and the newest aircraft carriers are about 110,000 tons. These ships are truly amazing!
The larger ships have more variety in the choices of things to do, places to go on the ship, and entertainment than do the smaller ships, but to me, the smaller ships offer a more intimate feel to them. When I say smaller, I'm still talking about ships that are larger than any ship in any of the other cruise lines! This webpage shows a list of the largest cruise ships sailing today, and as you will see, Royal Caribbean has 10 of the top twenty.
Hope you enjoy the following pics and videos from our Cruise on board the Mariner of the Seas!
Look for more posts to follow describing many more of our trips and vacations. I hope you enjoy them. If anyone is looking to travel or take a vacation, be sure to call Cissy at The Travel Company. Her # is 318-388-8747, ext. 214. If you get her voicemail, leave her a message and she will get back to you that same day if it is before 3:00 PM, otherwise it will be the next day. Thanks
