Royal Caribbean Total Eclipse Cruise
Oasis of the Seas sold out all 2,746 staterooms
RCCL Oasis of the Seas fact sheet
Bon Voyage Travel set us up well
Our route (The sharp turn is where we saw the eclipse)
Our route closeup
Bill got sunoculars for the trip
Waiting in our cabin: custom-printed eclipse glasses
There's a step up into our bathroom
Remember, don't stare at the sun with regular binoculars!
Where did he get those glasses?
Minigolf characters watching the eclipse without their glasses
Sky Guide iPhone app screenshot
Sun looked red or orange through the eclipse glasses
Orange Sun
Sun looked white through the sunoculars
Almost there!
Totality
Unretouched photo by my 10-year old Canon G9
Look at that corona!
Sunset in all directions (unretouched)
NatGeo represented
Professional picture 1
Professional picture 2
Professional picture 3
Rising Tide Bar, not yet rising
Rising Tide Bar, rising
Rising Tide Bar, risen
Fountains under the Rising Tide Bar
Controls for the Rising Tide Bar
1935 Auburn Boat Tail Speedster replica
Hood ornament
Birds in the aft elevator atrium
Dessert envy
There's a manta in our stateroom!
He's cool (you can tell by the sunglasses)
DreamWorks parade on the Royal Promenade
Dragon!
Dragon peeking around a pillar
Following the dragon, the Dragon Warrior: Po the Panda
That's...that hippo from...that movie!
Unsuspecting people
GODZILLA! No, Toothless from 'How to Train Your Dragon'
Martini class in the Champagne Bar
Champagne topper
Cappuccino martini was very good
If you want to get an A in Martini class, you have to do your homework!
Looking aft from our balcony
Looking fore from our balcony (It's normal to take your laptop on vacation, right?)
How YOU doin?
Gotta love those disembodied hands
Zipline over the Boardwalk neighborhood of the ship
Bill won mini golf
Crystal casino art
Sparkly stairs
Disco art
First port, St. Maarten
St. Maarten
Boat 1
Boat 2
Boat Butt
Streets of St. Maarten
More streets
This one's a walking street! (Ignore that car)
Pineapple
Rob was taking a picture of "the umbrellas"
The umbrellas
Beautiful clear water
The jetski might be faster but the Oasis has more bars
The Eldorado
Getting our daily fruit
I want a piñata pony purse!
Target acquired
Going...
going...
almost...
HUGE! And then gone
Before the aqua show, a suspiciously large umbrella
Pool gets deeper
And pool gets shallower
Red jams in view, blue jams on TV
Artful gesturing
Their speedos aren't tiny, they're just really high up
OK, their speedos are tiny
Carousel at night
Second port, St. Thomas
St. Thomas
Seagulls found something good
Mine! Mine! Mine!
Kon Tiki
Bill observing the harbor
The harbor
Practicing our craft
Casting off
We were pulling out and so were they
Submersible floating dry dock
Opal Theater
On the main stage, Come Fly with Me
Come Fly with Me: notice the highest suspended man has a shadow below him
Main dining room
License plate map of the US
Samuri warrior guarding Izumi Restaurant
Vampire chairs in the dining room
Back of a vampire chair
Dining room, 3rd floor
Globe over the pub cracks open to unveil a disco inferno
Bill soaking it all in
He lost another one
FlowRider
That's where we just were
Aqua theatre is showing Smurfs
Super chandelier
Golden hour, viewed from Central Park
Towel animals like to chill
One night, Rob had two entrees
Baked Alaska
Third port, Nassau
Expensive house
Taking the life boats out for a spin
Photo from the Majesty of the Seas arriving in Nassau: Oasis of the Seas (ours), Carnival Victory, Disney, Norwegian Cruise Lines
Looking down on all the other ships in Nassau
Atlantis resort in Nassau
Atlantis
If lost, return to Marie
Found an intruder watching our TV
Getting ready for Cats in the Opal Theater
A quiet Royal Promenade late one night