Return from the Steampunk Cruise with photos. Lots of photos.

I have returned from the Steampunk Cruise, and it was amazing.

I’ll tell you that I was a little nervous about this, having never been on a cruise before. I expected it to be a sort of floating shopping mall, but it’s basically a high end resort on water. They call it a floating city and that’s really not far off. What really made the cruise though was the steampunk themed cruise in the middle of it. There were musical acts, which were amazing.

Take a moment and go over to This Way to the Egress and The Unwoman. Listen to some of their music why you look through the photos, then buy an album.

The dining room on the ship is three stories with formal service

Having my hair done for the formal dinner

A crossroads. Shortly before I took this, a snake dropped from the trees. The other folks scattered. I had a parasol and felt quite smug.

Just to be clear, it’s really tall and steep.

Dancers who did a recreation of a Mayan dance

Their costumes are hand-stitched, including an actual jaguar skin.

Classic cars on board, with Sarah Chernik

It’s on top of a mountain and has a view that is hard to capture.

Zoë Klintberg borrowed one of my Regency dresses for the occasion

I was rooming with a mermaid. Her tail is drying.

The masquerade. I’m on the left as “the pearl in the oyster” and on my right is a steampunk Regency pirate lass.

By the end of the cruise, I had pulled several people back in time to the Regency.

I was also rooming with a mermaid. The first night aboard, she swam for us in the Solarium aboard the ship while This Way to the Egress played. The Solarium is a salt water pool styled to look like something out of Rome. The only people up there were steampunk cruisers and everyone looked fantastic. It was magic.

The whole week was, really.

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