Summer -By Jane

This August I went on a plane to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. We visited my aunt that lives in Miami and she drove us to the port where the cruise ship “The Allure Of The Seas” with my Mom, Brother, and our friend Kristin. We boarded on the ship and it was super big! The ocean water was this beautiful turquoise water, so it was super awesome to look over and see the sea, (hoping to not fall overboard!). It’s supposed to be the biggest cruise ship in the world! There was 6,000 people on the boat! On it, there was a lot of fun things to do. There was exciting things like ziplining, iceskating, a carousel, and there was these ride-type things called Flo Rider. One of them was a boogie boarding one and the other was a surfing one. Basically there was jets shooting water at you and you were on these boards either boogie boarding or surfing. There was many pools and games on the pool deck, there was also a boardwalk that had a bunch of stores! One of the decks had something called Royal Promenade on it. There was stores, places to eat and a lot of parties and events were held there. We had dinner every night in different restaurants on the ship. The food was delicious!  All of us were on the ship for seven days so there was so much more things to do.

Our first stop, was a private island that the cruise line Royal Caribbean owned. Allure Of The Seas is a Royal Caribbean ship. My aunt works for Royal Caribbean. The island was in Haiti, and it’s called Labadee. We went on water slides, and to a water park there. The water was so warm! After that, we went to Ocho Rios, Jamaica. We were on a bus to take us to a beach, and the whole idea of that seemed awesome to us..until we found out that the bus ride was 2 hours there and two hours back! On the bus ride, I was looking out the window part of the time and from what I saw, that part of Jamaica was pretty poor.

The water was even clearer and warmer than in Haiti! Our last stop was Cozumel, Mexico. There, we went snorkling. There was lots of extraordinary fish, and it was so colorful! We even saw a big shipwreck! It was such an amazing experience!

All the seven days I was there, I never wanted to leave! On the last day, we arrived back in Florida. We all packed our things and boarded off the ship, and went to my Aunts house. She drove us to the airport and we got on the plane back to New York. I’ll never forget how much fun I had!