Seven Sunrises, Seven Dreams: My Week on the Resilient Lady

I've always been terrible at making decisions. Ask my friends—they'll tell you I'm the person who takes 20 minutes deciding between two identical sandwiches. So when my partner surprised me with Virgin Voyages cruise tickets, I was honestly terrified. A whole week on a ship? What if I hated it? What if I got seasick? What if I regretted every second? Then I woke up on my first morning aboard the Resilient Lady, and everything changed. I'm not going to lie—my first instinct when I opened our cabin door wasn't to check out the room. It was to stumble to the porthole window and just... stare. We were floating into Cozumel at sunrise, and I literally gasped out loud. I'm talking full Sleeping Beauty moment. The water was this impossible shade of turquoise, the kind that looks photoshopped in travel magazines but absolutely wasn't. The sky had this pink-orange gradient that made my brain hurt a little because I couldn't quite believe I was actually seeing it with my own eyes and not on a screensaver. My partner stirred awake and found me standing there in my crusty travel sweats, probably drooling a little bit, just watching the harbor fill up with fishing boats and tourist catamarans.…