Day One:
Welcome to the Carnival Conquest! Using art and inspiration from French Impressionists, the entire ship was a floating art gallery. I don't know if anybody was as excited as I was to see Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, and Degas all over the place, but it had me stunned. Please enjoy your tour of the gorgeous ship that took our group (10 total) from Texas to Jamaica to Grand Cayman to Mexico and back up to Galveston in seven days:
(waiting in the lobby while we switched our rooms, signed up for excursions, and drank fruity rum cocktails.)
(the entire ceiling of the lobby was painted like this)
(the stadium seating, hot tubs, water slide, pools and deck chairs)
(mini golf course)
(the Renoir restaurant - where we had dinner every night...see all of the little eiffel towers?)
(the Toulouse-Loutrec lounge, where all of the "performances" happened. p.s. they weren't great. After the first three nights, we just gave up and played UNO in our room - which quickly became our favorite game.)
(the casino)
(this was for my sister who works for "Gear" - they had a store in our lobby!)
(this was for my mom who would have noticed instantly...Degas "Little Dancer" was part of every staircase.)
(the arcade...that's Bettina and Ryan up ahead.)
(here she is again, in the Degas Lounge - real tulle and ribbon in her hair)
(huge stained glass sunflower hanging outside the Monet Dining Room)
(our room - where a lot of UNO happened...that's not a metaphor or anything. We seriously played a LOT of UNO!)
(...because it never stops being amazing to me how tiny the bathrooms are.)
