{"id":894,"date":"2015-02-26T17:29:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T17:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.awaywego.travel\/?p=894"},"modified":"2017-10-05T16:40:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T16:40:42","slug":"instagram-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carnival.com\/awaywego\/cruising-fun\/what-to-expect\/instagram-takeover","title":{"rendered":"An Instagram Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m not sure if I had the chance to mention it here (if you follow me&nbsp;on <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/ohdeardrea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>,&nbsp;you already know this), but I got to takeover&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/carnival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carnival&rsquo;s instagram feed<\/a>&nbsp;while we were away on our cruise! This has now been the third instagram takeover I&rsquo;ve done&mdash; and I really love them! It&rsquo;s nice to throw my own style of photos into someone else&rsquo;s feed &#128578;<\/p><p><!--[random_promoted_video\/]--><\/p><p>If you guys missed our other Carnival posts, you should def. check them out. So much color, light, beautiful ocean, and fun&mdash; and I&rsquo;d like to think the photos I posted on their instagram show a bit of that too &#128578;<\/p><p>You can see our photos on board the ship:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ohdeardrea.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/a-girls-trip-on-sea_21.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p><p>Our photos at our port destinations:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ohdeardrea.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/caribbean-ports.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p><p>The food we ate: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ohdeardrea.blogspot.com\/2015\/02\/vegan-dining-on-cruise_12.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/span><\/p><p>And a Caribbean recipe I put together pre-trip:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ohdeardrea.blogspot.com\/2014\/12\/garden-food-vegan-callaloo-recipe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>&nbsp;&#128578;<\/p><p>Here are the Instagram photos I shared just in case you missed them!<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscred.com\/04c04aad86566883553248661234e696\" alt=\"Drea 1.jpeg\" sizes=\"100vw\"><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscred.com\/3fff141e6c5cca23a936280d90b046e1\" alt=\"Drea 2.jpeg\" sizes=\"100vw\"><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>French fries forever.<\/em><\/p><p class=\"p1\">We&rsquo;re big french fry lovers around here. It&rsquo;s our main guilty pleasure. I grew up eating them as a special treat with my mom and it&rsquo;s good to do it with my kiddo and friends too. We ate a few more fries than usual on the cruise&hellip; because we&rsquo;d be crazy not to &#128578;<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscred.com\/7660cd1b565301b365cfc8641d15c50a\" alt=\"Drea 3.jpeg\" sizes=\"100vw\"><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Magens Bay &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/cruise-to\/caribbean-cruises\/st-thomas-cruises.aspx?cid=So_CM_NA_P_AWG#20_1126&amp;DMP=5019,6120,7036,,8003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Thomas<\/a><\/em><\/p><p class=\"p1\">We have beautiful beaches here in South Florida, but this beach was by far one of the most beautiful ones I had seen in a long time. And calm enough for me to even venture into it, haha.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscred.com\/0ccb3ba50e3a846fdae22522ed25973d\" alt=\"Drea 4.jpeg\" sizes=\"100vw\"><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Staring down at the ship&rsquo;s dance floor. Marlowe was OBSESSED.<\/em><\/p><p class=\"p1\">It&rsquo;s funny, but not entirely surprising that this one was of Marlowe&rsquo;s favorite things to do. The four year old is still in love with ballet and dance&nbsp;after all. So she asked practically every night if we could go watch people dance &#128578;<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscred.com\/ca0ad1df54bd4bdd1dd98d7fbb0f51fe\" alt=\"Drea 5.jpeg\" sizes=\"100vw\"><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A GORGEOUS night view of St. Thomas from our balcony!<\/em><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscred.com\/8820e1d335b9b75dd5bcb0aac0075f20\" alt=\"Drea 6.jpeg\" sizes=\"100vw\"><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Us in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/cruise-to\/caribbean-cruises\/antigua-cruises.aspx?cid=So_CM_NA_P_AWG#20_1126&amp;DMP=5019,6120,7036,,8003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antigua<\/a>&mdash; our favorite stop!<\/em><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscred.com\/3247561833365ab690347fb670b779e3\" alt=\"Drea 7.jpeg\" sizes=\"100vw\"><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>And a view like this&ndash; of nothing but ocean, is something I&rsquo;d like to experience every single day. Nothing can compare. Sunrise, midday, sunset, it was all perfect. Experiencing this view again: it&rsquo;s on the bucket list.<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Find my instagram <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/ohdeardrea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a> &amp; Carnival&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/carnival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a> &#128578;<\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>This post was created as part of our collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/carnival.com\/?cid=So_CM_NA_P_AWG#20_1126&amp;DMP=5019,6120,7036,,8003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carnival<\/a>. As always, all of the opinions, thoughts, and ideas in this post are my own.<\/em><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"nc_pixel\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.newscred.com\/px.gif?key=YXJ0aWNsZT1mNDAyZmU5NWI0ZTlhOWQ2MzExMGFjNGRjMjU3YTYyYiZwdWJsaXNoZXI9Nzc5YzgxZTNjMWE4MTU4Yzg5OGJmYTVjYjk4M2ZlZDE=\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"100vw\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I&rsquo;m not sure if I had the chance to mention it here (if you follow me&nbsp;on Instagram,&nbsp;you already know this), &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carnival.com\/awaywego\/cruising-fun\/what-to-expect\/instagram-takeover\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"read-more\" aria-label=\"Read more of An Instagram Takeover\"> read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,77],"tags":[35,25,22],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruising-fun","category-what-to-expect","tag-caribbean","tag-photography","tag-tips"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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