Well here we go! My bride of 30 years and I finally are ready to take a cruise. In fact it is our first couple only vacation longer than 3 days since our honeymoon in 1980. We decided to take a new ship and after long deliberation chose Epic because of the entertainment options and because we wanted to "freestyle" it on our first cruise adventure.

To give you a little demographic info about us. We are in our early fifties, and consider ourselves pretty active. After booking the Epic, we were real nervous considering all the negative comments we had read on CruiseCritic, but hey we had put the money down so we were locked in to the trip.

We flew out of Atlanta on Friday, driving down from South Carolina the day before. Read more