Vacation is over...

We are home from our Cruise, and now we have lots of work to do!!!

Our vacation was so much fun...

Saturday - We started our trip with a Late flight @ 11:00pm out of Vegas, and arrived sleepy and achy in Miami Florida early the next morning - we had 6 hours to kill at the airport before we could leave to board the Cruise ship.

Sunday- We were able to board the ship about 11:40 am and had some lunch while waiting for our rooms to be ready. Our luggage did not show up until we were leaving for dinner!

Monday - A day at Sea, we walked around the boat got a bite to eat.. and sunned on one of the top decks with 3,500 other people!

Tuesday - Grand Cayman Islands, we got up early and headed out for our first tour! We did the Reef n Rays Snorkeling - a 35 min. boat ride to a huge reef where we snorkeled and the guides dove down and brought Sting Rays up to the surface for us to pet. Pretty cool, but it made me nervous... not so much the sting rays but the waves crashing you toward the side of the boat and into the other 50 people in the water! I am not a strong swimmer, so I asked for a life jacket! Chad laughed at me, but was glad because he said it was easy to spot me among everyone... because I was the only one in a life jacket and totally pregnant and awkward!

Wednesday - Isle Roatan, We slept in then got off the boat and took a Taxi to a sweet beach where Chad snorkeled and I relaxed and read a book in the Shade.

I had a pedicure/manicure back on the boat, then we played on the waterslide, had dinner, played bingo and went to Karoake.

Thursday - Belize, we decided to go cave tubing and booked a tour once we got off the boat. The drive was crazy in a 15 seater van... (the driver thought it was a race car). About 1 hour each direction on a very crappy road. We went to a national park area where we hiked through the rainforest for 25 minutes with a lifejacket, headlamp, and old school black tire tube! Then we reached the river and hooked together in groups of 6-8 with a tour guide where we floated through caves and rainforest and waterfalls for almost an hour. We kept getting stuck in the shallow parts of the river, but it was a cool experience!

Friday - Cozumel, We had a tour to Xcarat which is a National eco waterpark place but we cancelled it and luckily they gave us a refund... because Chad got a gross infected blister from the water shoes he wore while we were cave tubing. He woke up at 4:00am from pain and went to the doctor on the boat who wanted $80 just to see him. The nurse said it looked fine, but his entire toe was swollen and red and puffy. So we had some lunch on the boat, and Chad limped around so we could get off the boat in Mexico and get him some Medicine. We spent a couple hours on the Pier, did our souvenier shopping and went back to the boat where we relaxed the rest of the day.

Saturday - Another Day at Sea, we slept in and spent the day packing, reading and eating good food. I think we are both ready to go home.

Sunday - The boat docked before 8:00am we got up, ate some food and waited to go through customs. The process wasn't to bad or as long as it could have been.

We grabbed a Taxi with 6 other people in our group and headed to The Miami Seaquarium to kill some time. We watched the Dolphin, Sea Lion and Whale Shows... had some lunch then headed to the airport! We had just over 6 hours to fill before our flight... So we ate more food, read, watched TV, and just hung out! The flight was a bit over 5 hours and we got home and realized we had no keys to our house. Chad woke his dad and we got in our house and where in bed by 2:00 am.

What a long trip, but lots of fun!