Lisa, Aaron, Terry and Mike boarding the ship!

Freedom of the Seas: Our ship, currently the largest in the world.

Aaron and Lisa leaving Richmond... in first class!

Aaron, Lisa, Mike and Terry... starting the journey!

Aaron and Mike in the Atlanta Crown Lounge.

Aaron and Lisa in Atlanta.

Terry and Aaron.

Aaron and Mike sneaking the headboard into the hallway at our Miami Beach Oceanfront hotel. Of course, there's a good story behind this.

Lisa and Terry at our Miami Beach Oceanside Tiki Bar.

Aaron and Terry enjoying the hot tub in Miami Beach.

From our balcony, Terry, Aaron and Lisa in the hot tub.

View from our Miami Beach hotel room.

View from our hotel room... but look closely! On the horizon is Andy's ship passing by after departing from Ft. Lauderdale!

Aaron, Terry and Lisa board Freedom of the Seas to start our 7 day cruise.

Pool area.

View from the Sky Bar.

Terry on deck, with Miami in the background.

Lisa and Aaron prior to departure from the Port of Miami.

Terry and Mike... and Miami.

Our stateroom... 9654!

Terry's delivery of winde and cheese to celebrate his birthday!

Aaron and Lisa prepare for the mandatory muster drill.

Terry and Lisa enjoying muster!

This is the Carnival Valor, which departed shortly after us from Miami... and hit a couple of the same ports.

Terry, Miami Beach and the Valor.

The Pilot boat approaches, Miami in the background.

Miami.

Terry, Aaron, Lisa... and Mike's wine glass... toasting Terry's birthday.

Mike and Aaron in one of the many ship conversation rooms (aka bars).

Poolside!

Aaron and Lisa relaxing in the sun!

Ahhhh.... service everywhere!

Hey Aaron! It's your turn!!

Terry and Mike relaxing!

Poolside on the Freedom of the Seas!

Mike... and a huge rainstorm in the distance! Fortunately, they steer around them all!

Mike on a jog...

Poolside!

The Medicine Man!

Aaron and Lisa.

Aaron and Mike at Flow Rider... right after our surfing attempts!

Terry's first casino chips!

Terry's birthday cake at our first formal dinner of the cruise.

Aaron and Lisa at the first formal dinner.

Mike and Terry at dinner.

The gang at dinner.

Entrance to the Port of San Juan.

Aaron and Lisa on the balcony of their suite as we enter San Juan.

Terry and the historic San Juan Fort.

Terry and San Juan.

Coast Guard patrol for our ship as we enter San Juan.

Lisa, Terry and Aaron.

Aaron, Lisa and Terry leaving the ship to explore San Juan.

Aaron beside one of the tug points on Freedom of the Seas.

Our ship!

A view of the largest cruise ship in the world!

Aaron and Lisa... and their ride.

Terry, Aaron and Lisa walking in San Juan.

Historic Fort in the Port of San Juan.

View from the Fort.

The Promenade on Freedom of the Seas before the Dancin' in the Streets celebration.

One of the performers.

She was good!!

Fortunately, Terry didn't bring his red boots. That would have been embarrassing!!

A view of the packed Promenade during the performance.

Passengers have a blast at Dancin' in the Street!

The helipcopter pad.

Terry on the bow, at the helicopter pad... as he sports security approaching!

Terry and Mike on the bow of the ship.

Terry taking a casino break!

Steve, the man of 1000 songs.

Thunderhead moving onshore at St. Thomas.

Refueling barge in St. Thomas as we leave our ship.

We got a monkey!

And a gator!

Towel animals!

Terry getting ready to ice skate!

Terry, Lisa and Aaron ice skating.

Terry shows his... ummm, form.

Mike attempts line dancing. Very briefly.

Mike and Aaron in our team meeting before our volleyball game against ship staff.

Mike prepares to serve.

Aaron gets a solid hit.

Mike launches skyward(!) showing a nice tan line and a little crack.

Terry, Aaron and Lisa watching the pool area from the Sky Bar.

Terry, Aaron and Lisa.

"Loaner" tokens from the casino.

Terry, Lisa and Aaron in the Bull and Bear Pub on the Promenade.

Our dinner friends... on a less than formal night!

A bat!

Awesome view from our Miami room... and Andy's ship on the horizon.

Lisa and Aaron.

Mike at the Pool Bar.

Mike watches from the balcony as we depart Miami.

Departing Miami.

Miami Beach and South Beach.

Mike with room service breakfast!

Terry with a huge plate of food for breakfast!

Aaron and Lisa at the pool.

Aaron, Lisa and Mike at the pool.

Lisa and Aaron before the formal dinner.

Mike... on "Deck-a Nine"!

Sheery and Leonard at dinner.

Pat and Red at dinner.

Mike passing by the San Juan Fort.

Cool shot of a thunderstorm hitting San Juan.

Coast Guard patrolling our ship... notice the gun on the bow.

Mike watches a small plane approach San Juan.

Lisa trying to get out of the circular doors!

Map of our ship.

Mike in San Juan.

Mike and Terry... and Freedom of the Seas.

Mike and Aaron explore San Juan.

View of the ocean as seen through a gun turret at the fort in San Juan.

Lisa at a Gun Turret in the fort.

Mike at the Fort.

View from San Juan fort.

Mike, Lisa and Aaron... and Freedom of the Seas in the background.

Mike and Aaron relaxing in some really odd chairs!

Mike in the Royal Promenade.

A huge mermaid extends from the ceiling of the Promenade.

Mike and Aaron in the Royal Promenade.

The Royal Promenade.

Cool shot of one of the neon staircases.

Balconies overlooking the Royal Promenade.

The Royal Promenade.

The Royal Promenade from the neon bridge.

Beautiful night shot of the pool area.

Night shot.

Night shot of the pool deck area.

The kid area.

More night shots of the ship.

Lisa at Orient Beach, St. Maarten.

Lisa at Orient Beach.

St. Maarten's Orient Beach.

Mike and Aaron toss a football at Orient Beach.

Mike and Aaron.

Mike at Orient Beach.

An inguana at Orient Beach.

Mike at Orient Beach.

Lisa and Aaron at St. Maarten.

Lisa and Aaron at the St. Maarten sign.

Aaron's first Carib... at Sharky's Bar in St. Maarten.

Port of St. Maarten. Freedom of the Seas on the left, Carnival Valor on the right.

Lisa, Aaron, Mike and Terry at Sharky's, St. Maarten.

Pool view!

View betwen two ships in St. Maarten.

Carnival Valor joined up with us in St. Maarten.

View of the overghanging hot tubs! Very cool!

St. Maarten adult poolside!

The adult pool area on Freedom of the Seas... a little calmer atmosphere!

Hot tubs!

Mike in St. Maarten.

Our ship, departing St. Maarten. At the far end of the pier, a couple in white watches as we depart without them. All aboard meanes all aboard.

Terry in line for the Flow Rider!

Terry waiting his turn...

Terry watches and gets tips...

Terry Time on the Flow Rider!! He made it look so easy!

Terry cruising along!

Terry moves to his knees!

Terry starts a barrel roll. The cool part... he finished it... and maintained the ride! Very cool!

Lisa's birthday cake!

Lisa and Terry on her birthday.

Mike on a staircase, leaving the casino.

A cool towel animal/man in the bed!

Mike and Aaron in first class.

Mike & Terry at the Tiki Bar on Miami Beach.

Entrance to Port of Miami.

The Boys, in height order: Mike, Aaron, Terry.

Lisa at the Lounge.

Terry and Mike on the pool deck.

Lisa poolside with a pina colada.

Freedom of the Seas!

Lisa and Aaron poolside.

Aaron and Lisa on their balcony as we arrive in San Juan.

A lobster!

Sunset in San Juan.

Sunset at the adult pool... while Terry swims.

San Juan sunset.

Terry plays ping pong.

Aaron wins ping pong. :)

The H20 Zone.

An elephant!

Food carvings at the midnight buffet.

More carvings...

Lisa and Aaron at Orient Beach.

Terry and Mike at Orient Beach.

The Boys: At Orient Beach.

Aaron enjoys a cold Carib!

St. Thomas.

Aaron prepares to try surfing on the Flow Rider.

Aaron surfing on the Flow Rider!! "Git it!!!"

Lisa prepares for her turn.

Mike and Terry in their stateroom.

Aaron, Lisa, Terry and Mike... formal dinner.

Terry and Mike.