A group of 23 friends selected to cruise on the Carnival Pride from Baltimore. The premise of this cruise was to be somewhere other than home for when the World ended according to the Mayans , it was out of Baltimore, so no airline hassle and inexpensive. This was my first cruise at Christmas time.

Embarkation at the Port of Baltimore was slowed because the Pride was late returning from the prior cruise. The port is dull but the Carnival folks were all dressed in Santa hats or Reindeer Antlers. We had a port worker who kept walking around telling people they couldn't use their smart phones, even though they were doing nothing different then the folks sitting there playing Angry Birds on their ipads. Needless to say, that became a running joke with our group.

We finally boarded and went right to the sports bar only to be disappointed that they didn't have the Redskins game. Some in our group sat and watched the Ravens game, enjoyed drinks, food from the grill, others explored the ship. Many areas were blocked off for the 6 weddings happening on the ship. Read more