First post from the ship!

I'm not totally sure if this will even work, because I haven't tried emailing my blog before. Anyway, I made it on the ship (with my contraband straightener sans automatic shut-off) and we left the dock at 8pm.  I'm living on deck 3 (there are 7 decks, 7 is at the top) so I'm close to the bottom.  I feel like Jack Dawson in Titanic.  Upside is that apparently you don't feel the rocking of the boat as much closer to the bottom of the ship.  Regardless, I haven't been feeling seasick (knock on wood), but there have been a lot of people already throwing up :/ It's hilarious because nobody has their sea-legs yet, so we all are stumbling around like drunk idiots. I'm in a quad, but luckily we got one of the biggest rooms on the ship.  Most of the quads have bunk beds (and when I say bunk beds, I mean there is one bed on the floor and another bed that folds out of the wall that just sits on top of the other one-- shady) but ours had 2 separate rooms, each with 2 regular beds. My room even has a huge window, so I can look out into the ocean! Our blinds are broken at the moment though, so the sun shines in really bright in the morning. Luckily though, I have this snazzy leopard print sleep mask to wear that Kelsey's mom bought for me! Since our room is at the back of the ship, we can hear the engine. It's loud. The room shakes a little bit. But I'm over it, because I'm a pretty heavy sleeper anyway. My roommates are really nice, and I think that we'll get along really well. The girl that's actually sharing the room with me has the same cleaning habits that I do (throw your clothes everywhere and let the room get messy for a few weeks and then spend a few hours tidying up when you get a chance every so often) so I think this should work out. The ship is so nice, it's like brand new! I'll upload pictures once I get into Dominica sometime after Sunday. We changed time zones last night, so it's currently an hour later here than home. I'll post pictures once we get to Dominica.