Cruise

Chris and I went on a cruise over Memorial Day to celebrate our 10th year wedding anniversary.
We had so much fun and are so grateful to Chris' parents who watched the girls the first weekend, and my parents who watched them for the rest of the week!
We went on a Royal Caribbean Cruise to the western Caribbean. We stopped in Labadee, Haiti; Falmouth, Jamaica; Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands; and Cozumel, Mexico.

Here we are pulling out of the port.

The first night at dinner. (I had to accuse myself shortly after this picture because I was not feeling well. But luckily, my sea sickness was limited to only this first evening)

Our cruise had dream works characters.

Our friends, Ben and Hilary Brewster, were on the cruise with us! They will be celebrating their 10th in January, so we all celebrated together on the cruise. We loved being on the cruise with them! It was so fun to have them to do everything with. We played shuffle board on the ship. And, although this picture is of the men, Hilary and I were WAY better then them at it.

This was dinner on the first formal night.

 Our ship.

Rock climbing on the ship. I couldn't get up very far, but Chris got to the top.

We drank coconut mild straight from the coconut in Jamaica.

 And we went river rafting in Jamaica. The river was pretty calm really, but it was still alot of fun.

Another evening. We ate dinner together every night (at 8:30 or 9:00) and then enjoyed the entertainment the ship had to offer.

The 2nd formal night.

Cozumel had beautiful water and beaches. The pictures don't do it justice, but it was awesome.

The sand was so fine and soft that we just laid right down in it.

It was also nice to see the sun because it rained most of the day in Jamaica and Grand Cayman.

During lunch in Cozumel this raccoon would come up to everyone begging for food. It was much skinnier, and seemed much tamer then raccoons in the US.

I don't know why this picture ended up sideways, but Chris, Ben and Hilary played in a volleyball tournament the last day on the ship. Before that they played dodge ball and ended up taking 2nd!

This is a terrible picture, but these were our wonderful waiters, Jason and Imade. They were fantastic and we requested to sit in their area every night (which was why we usually had to wait until 8:30 or 9:00) Jason was from Jamaica and had the same birthday as Chris and Ben! Imade was from Indonesia and was trying to make enough money to be able to stay there and live (his wife and 2 kids were in Indonesia so he rarely saw them) so sad.

This is Chris on the Flow Rider on the ship. It simulates a big wave to surf. It was fun for he and Ben.



This is just more info for us to remember our trip.

Labadee- beach and water day
Jamaica- crazy market place in the city! Jerk chicken for lunch- so HOT, river rafting and beach. Raining for all of rafting trip. Rope swing into the river.
Grand Cayman- bamboo sheets, swimming with the sting rays (Chris and Hilary were terrified of the sting rays), snorkeling at 2 other locations, pouring rain most of the day.
Cozumel- jeep tour, snorkeling, beach and beautiful water and sand, tequila making tour, Mayan ruin replica (cheap- we wish we had seen the real thing), Mexican lunch on the beach.