Cruising BLISS

Okay...Amazing...the cruise was AMAZING!!! We had nothing to do but eat amazing food constantly, go to shows every night, go scuba diving, kayaking, snorkeling, zip lines, repelling in Mayan Caves, and read books while relaxing in the sun. AMAZING!!!

So that's the short of it! Turns out there was a hurricane around where we were and the port we were leaving from was closed two days prior to our cruise. But we had no problems. We did a couple of the islands out of order and only had rain one night for a few hours.
We visited Cozumel Mexico first, that's where I tried Scuba Diving for the first time. AHHHH-new favorite thing in the world. Jess and I could have done nothing but Scuba Dived the entire time and been happy. He's been certified for like 10 years so it was nothing new to him. I, on the other hand, was a little worried at the first---people are not made to breath under water and my mind knew that. After a few minutes of ignoring my instincts--I was underwater and swimming with fishes and holding rays! (also, our picture under water that the guy took, I didn't know he was taking it and Jess and I both look like Zombies--But really, we loved it!!!) We made some new friends the first couple of days and they signed up to come with us which was lots of fun.


Next we went to Roatan, Honduras. We didn't book an excursion here but were taken to a private beach. Initially we tried to snorkel. But turns out...if you buy snorkeling gear for $10...it doesn't work very well, and you drink a lot of salt water. So we gave that up and just relaxed. (Turns out Jess is more of a busy body then I'd realized....he had a hard time just sitting--reminding me oh so much of my dad--and was kinda bored---he ended up finding some shade and taking a nap. Tabyana Beach was gorgeous!!! I listened to the live music, read, and took in the sun.




In Belize we took a bus to some Mayan caves. It was a lot of fun and we were with a fun group, but it was pretty easy stuff. I think Jess and I were looking for like millions foot repels, and zip lines for miles...so the beginner stuff that they have to do because they're for everyone were kind of disappointing...but the caves were really neat and Belize is gorgeous!





Oh, wait, I forgot about the rain in Freeport Bahamas! It was awesome! Downpour!!! We didn't care much, we were going kayaking and snorkeling so we were getting wet anyway. We kayaked to a little island and half way there the sky shook so loud with thunder--we loved it!!! Not to mention we took Emily and Riley's example and skunked everyone else--we have a need for speed I guess. The snorkeling was awesome--choppy and fun--and scary when we had to navigate over tons and tons of fire coral...which made it all the more fun!



People always talk about the food on cruises...it's so incredible. One of the nights we went to one of the fancy restaurants on board. It was a seven course meal with food I've only seen on "Iron Chef". Fanciest place we've ever been--that's for SURE!

Oh oh, and I was so happy that I didn't get motion sickness!!! I got the patch before I left and was loving the water-choppy and smooth.

The shows were tons of fun. On the nights they had the "Glory Dancers" me and Jess laughed. It reminded me too much of the dancing off of Saturday's Warrior--anyone seen that? AWESOME.

Anyway--I really could go on for DAYS...we loved it....everyone should go on one....the end!!!

NOW....THANKS SOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH JULIE, ANDREA, AUBREY AND GEORGE! The boys had the time of their life while we were gone!!! They had a different party every day--Ben 10 party, Transformer Party, Power Ranger Party.... You guys are amazing!!! Thanks for everything! The boys loved it! We loved playing games (Cari especially!) with you guys, puzzles, marker war, leg wars...it was awesome....THANKS SO SO MUCH!