after the 3-hour bus ride from lhr to dover, we finally made it to our first port. the white cliffs of dover are really white. who would have thunk?







here's a view of the norwegian dream (deck 10, star deck) while we are still waiting for all passengers to embark.








it's hard to tell, but it's extremely windy today. in fact, we were sitting towards the front of the boat (forward), but it was just too much for us to handle. so we moved towards the aft. the ice cream bar is that structure in the back with the glass windows.





we started off with a bang. the "special" on the cruise was to buy this bucket of 5 beers, and then get one beer free. but in fact, it wasn't a bucket, it was a helmet. here is jano on deck 13 (sky deck) where the basketball court is. like i said earlier, it was really windy and the helmet was blowing off jano's head before we could get a decent shot of his football stance.







along with basketball, and ice cream, and helmets of beer, they had a wii on board the boat for bowling tournaments and what not. i had hyped up the wii to my mom in the past few weeks, and since they were doing a demo, my mom jumped at the chance to try it out. here is tita vicky bowling for a spare.




we had been traveling for quite a while. in fact, we left phl on saturday, and arrived in the uk around noon or so. we pushed on and stayed awake until the wee hours, when we discovered the stylistics of jose and patty in the observatory lounge on deck 12. while tita vicky is used to little sleep, pv looks like she might kill someone. but you know what all woke us back up? blue kamikazees, the blueish drink on the table! (vodka + blue curacao)



here is our first foray into the seedy world of the blue kamikazee, which would eventually be our shot of choice on the dream for the entire vacation.

even tito tony enjoys the blue kamikazee.

after some blue kamikazees and other booze, the nebulus nine decide to try the "jelly bean" shot instead of our tried and true blue kamikazee. here we are doing our blue steel poses, before figuring out the jelly bean shots were nasty!






in fact, there was an extra jelly bean shot that no one claimed (not surprisingly). the 6 youngins rolled the dice and the lowest dice roller was to do the shot. chief bro and jano tied as the lowest, and their roll-off resulted in a loss for chief bro.





here you can see the lone pip on the die that ruined him. also, take notice of his cougar bait shirt.









the booze is flowing now, as well as the dancing tunes from jose and patty. rudy and vicky show us how it's done.

apparently pv and chief bro have been taking dancing classes. they are hamming it up for the camera (or ARE they?).










here's cavin and i dancing the old-school 5th grade slow dance.













note: what i don't have pictures of, is us hitting the sports bar after midnight for bbq chicken wings and fries. even pv was wasted, as we all heard her originally say she didn't really want to eat, but then after finishing a bunch of wings, saying, "so who's turn is it to get the next plate of food?" hahah

Labels: booze, travel