I am too FAT for a carnival cruise!

So here is our story about our cruise.

First of all I should explain that the company Davis is going to be working for paid for the cruise, the flight down to california, etc etc etc. So they just told us when the flight was and we just had to show up pretty much.

So early saturday morning we got on a flight to Los Angeles!! We got in to LA in the afternoon that same day and had a nice relaxing day in the hotel, just getting excited for mexico and talking about all the things we wanted to see and do, totally getting pumped for this trip!

Sunday morning we headed down to the pier with the rest of the company (about 90 people in total) who were going on the cruise. When we arrived at the pier there was this mile and half long line up to get on the boat. So we stood there for no joke like 2 hours, waiting to check in and get our room keys and stuff. As we FINALLY approached the front of the line, the lady standing there checking ID asked me when I was due (not an uncommon question for a pregnant person to hear..) I thought nothing of the question so I told her, Feb 20th. She said ok, just wait right here for a minute. 5 minutes later this other lady came out and said, " Im sorry we cant let you on board" Davis and I were in total shock.... we were just like "OK ..... why is that" she explained to us that apparently I am too far along in my pregnancy and I am too much of a liabilty to have on board in case something happens. Also they dont have the facilities on board to deal with early labour. Keep in mind that I have 3 full months left until Im even due.

Anyway so she escorted us outside (it was kind of a cold day for california) and said just wait out here while i find your group leader and call my managers and see if there is anything we can do. so we waited outside in the cold for like 30 mintues it seems like and she finally comes back and says, yeah there is nothing at all we can do, its just too much of a risk. So at this point we were over our shock and fully into sometype of anger, we tried to explain that I had just seen my doctor 2 days before, everything is fine, she can call him if she wants, we will sign a waiver... anything. NO GO. apparently 27 weeks is their cut off and i am 27 weeks exactly that day. Anyway, this went back and forth for a while, her leaving us outside in the cold while she went to talk to more people.... it was not a fun afternoon. After we flew across the country to be there, went through all that hassel... to bad so sad, we were out of luck.

After everything it was decided, that Im just too fat and I cant get on, too much of a liability... mean while there are like 95 year old grannys in wheel chairs who cant even stand... about to freaking die at any moment, but they are ok to get on and not me.

They gave us back our bags and said you can walk over to the hotel over there and they can call you a cab. nice eh? anyway we arent too fond of carnival cruise right now, because i looked all over thier website before going down there and there was NOTHING on there about pregnant women .... i looked for a long time (searching for a reason not to go mostly cause i was scared)

BUT bright side of every story, here is our silver lining ... the company that paid for us to be down there anyway tried to get us back on and fight for us (to no avail) and in the end, got us a hotel room in LA for 3 more days, a rental car and $500 spending cash so we could still have some kind of vacation. SO we took the next 3 days to tour Hollywood, Malibu, Venice beach, Los Angeles, San Deigo... and the highlight of the trip SEA WORLD!! 4 days of being on my feet and then a red-eye flight home to halifax and my feet are good and swollen.... so gross.

I feel like this post is long enough, but i will say Sea World was awesome, i got to pet a freaking Dolphin!!! how cool is that? I will try to make one of those slide shows in a minute, but I thought i would post this to let you all in on our adventure!!!!