In January, Randy and I went on our first cruise! We considered it our honeymoon as well, because we never went on one. It was all paid for by Clear satellite, the company Randy works for during the summer time. Flights included! It was soooo much fun! It was a Western Carribean cruise. The ports were Grand Cayman, Cozumel, Belize, and Hondorus. The day we were supposed to port at Grand Cayman, the weather was bad, so we weren't able to go there. We were bummed, and I got sea sick from the swaying, so it started out kind of rough. After that, though, everything was amazing! It was such a wonderful experience!! The food was awesome, and there was more than you could ever imagine eating. There were lots of things to do on the ship as well.
This was my first big airplane. It was awesome!
When we got there, we didn't have a room assigned to us for some reason, so when we registered, we got our room number. We were supposed to have an interior cabin room without windows. When we walked in our room, we were happy to discover that there was a large window, and when we went to check it out, we discovered it was a balcony room!! We weren't going to complain! It was awesome! We spent a lot of time out on the balcony, just staring at the beautiful ocean.
When we went to Cozumel, we rode a ferry to the main land, and went on an LDS tour to Tulum. The tour was through helamantours.com, and our tour guide was a stake president named Lemuel. He was awesome, and gave us a scriptural tour. It was so beautiful and peaceful there!
Of course, there were cute little towels folded in the shape of an animal in our room every day. The room service was incredible! They treat you very well all over the ship.
Did I mention that there was unlimited ice cream too??
A band played for us on the Ferry
In Belize, we took a tour of the city on a horse and buggy ride. It was a very humbling experience to see the "houses" that some of the people lived in there. We are all so blessed to have a roof over our heads, and such large houses!
This was a middle class house
We have more pictures of our vacation, but they are on Randy's phone, and we can't figure out how to get them off yet.
In Honduras, we went snorkeling by the coral reef. It was so cool! It was awesome swimming in the ocean, and seeing all the cool things living there. I did learn one hard lesson though. Don't swim into the only area where there are waves. There are waves because the coral is taller. I got into them, and panicked because I "couldn't" get out, and got pushed through the coral. The waves kept shoving me down, and I would come up yelling for help, but had no luck. After having my life flash before my eyes (that really does happen!) I had a voice in my head tell me to "Straighten up! you have kids, and you are going to drown if you don't grab ahold of the coral and sit down!!". So that's what I did. I was so afraid to touch the coral that I almost drowned. Hard lesson learned, for sure! And I have a few scars to remind me if I ever forget!! :) Would I snorkel again? For sure!! It really was awesome!!
After that, we got to hold a monkey on the beach. I loved it! It was so cool!
There were so many other awesome experiences, I can't even begin to type them all, but when I get our other pictures, maybe I can tell a few more things. I can't wait until we can go again!
p.s. Mom and Stetsy took the kids for us so we could go. I cannot even begin to say how thankful I am for them!! They were troopers for sure!! I love you both!! Thanks again!
