Great Ruse

So, it's been a little while. I'm so sorry to say that between Christmas, New Years, our cruise and getting back to "real life" blogging just had to take a back seat. But now I'm back and ready to shower more great things upon any faithful readers I have left. lol.

As I mentioned above, Don and I went on a fabulous cruise over our 5th anniversary. We are definitely huge cruise fans. It's really the only time we truly get to relax and just have fun together. We swam with dolphins, discovered a $2 margarita stand (yummy and deadly as it turned out), learned to tango, learned to fold towel animals, ate great food including lobster claw for the very first time, explored awesome Mexican ports like Puerto Vallarta and Cabo- to name a few and just had the best time we can remember in recent history. Maybe one of these days we'll actually make good on the cruise ship gig dream. We just can't say enough good things about our experience. We'd leave on another one tomorrow if we could. But, I digress...

The real point of this post is how we circumvented the system and you can too! On a cruise all food and beverage is included in your original cost except soda and alcohol. Anyone who knows us well knows that we aren't teetotalers at all. So, we decided that we would try to sneak booze on the ship to help relieve the inevitable expense. Oh yeah, you aren't allowed to bring food or beverages onto the ship. Don wasn't convinced that we could get away with it, but I was pretty confident. I actually wrapped a bottle of green apple schnapps in some of my clothes and stuffed it in the middle of my suitcase. We didn't necessarily care if that was confiscated. (It wasn't.) We did care about our Malibu Rum and vodka. Hmmm.... they just happen to be clear liquids just like good ol' H2O. I bet you can see where I'm going with this: we filled empty water bottles with Malibu and vodka and prayed. Sure thing, no one even checked our bottles, so we made it on the ship with our happy contraband. Here's a picture of Don poolside with his "water" and Coke.
It may have seemed weird that we were watering down our cokes all the time. lol. Actually, we weren't the only ones to sneak stuff onto the ship. We met some of our cruise-mates at the $2 margarita stand in Cabo who revealed that they had also figured out how to get around the $5.50 weak drinks on the ship. I'm sure it's a pretty common practice. It sure made some of our afternoon beverages a lot more enjoyable. :) So, if you cruise and don't want to pay for your drinks get a water bottle and anything clear. It's a great thing!