The second day on our cruise vacation was easily my favorite.
Booze cruise + Some of my favorite people + My birthday = A fantastic time!
Awesome day!
Workout
Since Ryan and I cannot seem to sleep in, we were up before everyone on Friday morning and decided to explore the gym aboard the ship and sneak in our one and only vacation workout.
The boat was rockin’ a bit on Friday morning and I couldn’t keep my balance very well on the treadmill. I walked for about four minutes before completing 30 minutes on the elliptical beside Ryan.
I didn’t really get my heart rate up too much, but it felt good to sweat a bit.
Breakfast
After our workout, we headed to the dining room for breakfast. I tried to start my day on a relatively healthy note every morning and ate fresh melon, two poached eggs, an English muffin with jelly, two slices of ham and a small soft serve cone every day.
I turned the eggs, ham and jelly into a make-shift breakfast sandwich that was fantastic!
The cruise had all-you-can-eat soft serve available 24 hours a day and I had a cone after breakfast and lunch every day. One of the many perks of crusin’!
Booze Cruise
The Carnival Sensation docked in the Bahamas around noon and our group had plans to board an all-you-can-drink booze cruise leaving from Senor Frogs, a popular bar on the island, at 12:45 p.m.
There she is! What a beaut.
Our group wasted no time hitting up the bar on the way pick up more booze cruisers and head out to an island.
Beach Time
Since our group and nearly everyone else on the booze cruise took advantage of the bar service, our time on the private beach was full of shenanigans and lots of fun.
My sister and I found it absolutely hysterical to randomly strike the most awkward poses known to man which quickly rubbed off on others…
Blue steel? 
And then I apparently looked a little too dry because this happened…
When Daniel started making a beeline for the water, I did my best to save my dress!
The water wasn’t cold at all and actually felt rather refreshing. It was so clear and gorgeous though scenery pictures apparently alluded me on this particular vacation.
Booze Cruise Back
On the way back to Senor Frogs, the music was blastin’ and the drinks were flowin’. I couldn’t stop the beat flowing through my veins and hit the dance floor with everyone to party it up for a few hours.
Oh and there may have been a limbo contest aboard the booze cruise on the way back…
And I may have come in second.
I am not flexible at all in my legs (hence why I am horrible at basically anything involving my hamstrings in yoga), but apparently my back is rather bendy. (<—Said like Phoebe Buffay.)
Our whole group was pretty surprised about the limbo contest and thought I should’ve been given a handicap once I made it to the final two because I am 5’7’’ and the girl who won was barely five feet tall and made me look like some kind of a Yeti.
Honestly, I blame the drinks for giving me the courage to even attempt to participate in the limbo contest because in my sober mind, I would’ve looked at that bar and thought that there was no way I would get under it! That’s what we call liquid courage, my friends.
After the booze cruise we stayed at Senor Frogs until we had to be back aboard the ship at 7:30 p.m.
We rushed to change to make it to our 8:15 p.m. dinner and let’s just say the ridiculous pictures from dinner are a hoot. Our themed formal night photos are coming up next!
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Fun!! You have some awesome abs!! 🙂
thank you! fueled by vodka. 🙂
Haha, I was just thinking that too Nikki. And i’m sure every girl noticed! Go Julie, amaaaazing! Vodka does the opposite to me though 🙁
Ahhhh that looks like such a blast!!!! Glad you had a great time on your birthday booze cruise! You are making me miss going to college in Charleston!!!
hahaha, you look like you had a blast!
No pictures chugging a famous Senor Frogs yard?? Maybe those are some of the ones that were deemed inappropriate…looks like fun!
about 20% of the pics made the cut! 🙂 better than expected!
Oh my gosh, your photos are hilarious!!!!!!! I am so excited for the themed formal night ones! 🙂 Happy Belated Birthday!
Looks like a blast! Love the contrasting greens in your bikini – so cute! Also, I am 5’8 and also pretty good at limbo – tall girls can limbo too!
Hi Julie! I just found your blog a couple months ago and absolutely LOVE it! I just did one of your interval treadmill workouts this morning and it kicked my butt! I live in South Florida now, but was a KD at Clemson. I can definitely say I have pics similar to these from some of our crazy booze cruises:) AOT!
HAHAH if these are the “appropriate” selection, I wonder what the rated R pics look like! Bahaha my favourite is of you in the super awkward standing pose with your hands clasped together. Soo hilarious. I love that you can share these kinds of ridonncculous photos with your readers :)!
PS – I have the same bikini top from VS. It’s the ONLY bikini I’ve found to date that gives me more “oomph” up top (something I desperately need!)
I was going to say the same thing about the VS top! It ‘s the only one that makes me feel slightly more “boob-a-licious” (and I need lots of help there!)
i feel ya!! 🙂
What a fun trip!! Sure looks like you guys had a blast. And congrats on getting 2nd! I too am flexible and usually win or am in the top few (even though I am 5’8). We should have a limbo faceoff 🙂 Heheee
These pictures make me so sad because I was just on the same exact booze cruise last month. Best day ever. And only a portion of my pictures were appropriate for Facebook.
“I’m very bendy!!!” one of the best lines from one of the best episodes! LOL love it
Bahahahaha I LOVE all the pictures! Sounds like a great birthday!
Also, I went on a cruise a few years ago and also took FULL advantage of the 24hr soft serve machine 🙂
The cruise looks like so much fun! If I lived near a cruise port, that’d be my vacation of choice!
It looks like you had a blast! I love Senor Frogs, I went to one in Hawaii, was there a guy making balloon animal hats at yours?
that looks like so much fun. can i ask how much the booze cruise was? i am going to the bahamas on a cruise in november and that looks like something i would want to do!!!
The booze cruise sounds amazing, super jealous! Also, I totally read “bendy” in phoebe’s voice before the note after it. Love it!
Looks like a very fun group!! 🙂
Looks like an awesome way to spend a birthday.
I was on that same Booze Cruise two years ago on my trip to the Bahamas. I didn’t do so hot on the limbo though. I’m 6’1” and have horrible balance after vodka. Hahah. Those pics are priceless!
looks like SO MUCH FUN!!!
Haha, I totally read “Our group was wasted in no time” instead of “Our group wasted no time…”. Looks like so much fun, I’m jealous! 😀
Love that you got soft-serve ice cream twice a day! That’s my idea of a good time haha!! 😉
Cute suit, where’d you find it?
I love that you had soft serve with your breakfast, I would totally be doing the same thing 🙂
haha looks like you had so much fun! I love your bathing suit..Majorly made me miss having some beach time right now…
Soft serve after breakfast? Awesome. Looks like you had such a blast – I can’t wait to see more!!
You are rocking that limbo girl! Get em!
Looks like so much fun! All of the men need to use sunscreen, they look like lobsters!
Dessert with breakfast sounds perfect to me! Glad to see you had such a fun time!
That’s too funny, I definitely went on that same booze cruise line in the Bahamas a few years ago. Let’s just say it was just as good a time as yours seemed to be and a few bahamas mamas were consumed 😉
Looks like so much fun! You can never go wrong with a booze cruise. Can’t wait to see the formal night pictures!!!!!
haha i am laughing that almost every picture with ryan in it, his mouth is open, tongue out. Looks like you had an awesome time, and as every girl has mentioned your abs are amazzzing.
That is the exact booze cruise my hubby and I went on in the bahamas! I have pics in the travel section of my blog!
Julie, your writing is absolutely hilarious. And the pictures are even more awesome! I cannot WAIT for the theme night photos! #excited
I think my friends and I need to go on a booze cruise. This looks right up our alley! So much fun!
Um this looks like the most fun day ever. It reminds me of spring break in college!!
This looks like a total blast!! Makes me want to go on a cruise right now 🙂
oh my god, could not stop smiling/laughing looking at your pictures! Julie, you look awesome (talking about those abs) and I absolutely loved your green bikini! Surely you had lots of fun.
I may have actually laughed out loud at your poses. 🙂
Oh my gosh! It looks like you had so much fun! Happy belated birthday!!!!
Looks like you had a blast. Can’t wait to see the Formal Night pictures.
I read your blog often and just wanted to make sure you filed your annual report with the State of Florida that’s due May 1st
Looks like you guys had a blast! Those are great pictures, cannot wait to see the formal night pictures!
You and Ryan look great in your swimsuits! It looks like you have a tattoo peeking out in the photo of you in a bikini with Ryan. Can you tell us what kind of tattoo you have?
ha! no tattoo for this girl. i think it’s just some weird shadowing?
You don’t seem like a girl who would have a tattoo. Thanks for clearing it up!
Maybe if you had a swim bottom that properly covered you, then you wouldn’t have that ‘weird shadowing’ going down (pun not intended haha).
I doubt that’s a tattoo – pretty sure it’s a shadow because her bottoms are so low.
…Soooo low.
way too low…
looks like so much fun! you and your friends seem like the type of people I’d LOVE to hang out with. Fellow UCF alums are always my favorite 🙂 and nice abs, girl!
Whats your tattoo of!?
no tattoo… i’m not sure why it looks that way! just weird shadowing, i think.
You look really good in your bikini.
Bahahahaha looks like you guys had QUITE the time!
Man to have abs, looking good! Not having the best day today but your pics are totally making me smile, glad you had a good time!!!
Great pictures!!! Looks like so much fun – what an awesome way to spend your birthday. So excited to see the pictures from your formal dinner 🙂
Soft serve after breakfast and lunch? That, in itself, would prompt me to book a cruise! <3 SOFT SERVE!