Cruise With Me, Baby

Ken and I had the wonderful opportunity last week to go on a Caribbean cruise with some amazing friends. My mom came and stayed with the boys and we flew to Miami and boarded the Carnival Glory.

This is the second cruise we've gone on with these friends and we were determined to once again dominate games and trivia and win all the trophies and medals we could. Sandy is proud to display the first trophy our group won.
That night Ken started things off right by being the first in the group to karaoke. He rocked some Bon Jovi. Greg and Sandy performed also and were awesome.
This is a camel from the casino. Taking this picture is about the extent of our time in the casino on board :-)
I love this picture.
This was in the room where they had all the art for the auction. You can't pass by a photo op like this!
This is from our first formal night on board. We kind of interpreted formal as 'what you might wear to church'
Our friend Emy took this picture. I love it.Each night our room staff would make little towel animals. This was my favorite.
Our first stop was Cozumel, Mexico. We went snorkeling there. It was so beautiful.

Emy had an underwater camera and got some awesome pictures of our snorkeling excursion.This was while playing cards on deck one night. It was pretty windy. Later they ended up kicking us inside because of the wind.Unfortunately because of weather, we had to miss our port in Costa Maya. We were so excited to see the ruins there, but had a great time on the boat with our friends. Our next stop was Roatan, Honduras. It was absolutely gorgeous. We did a swim and snorkel with the dolphins. It was so incredible to spend a half an hour just snorkeling with 20 dolphins. What amazing creatures. I had a huge smile plastered on my face the whole time.


Our dolphin was Mr. French. Here we are kissing him, hold the jokes please.Can't you see Ken's excitement to kiss a dolphin in his face?Here are all the guys from the cruise.


Ken and I walked around Roatan a little after our dolphin swim. We found some great photo opportunities.This sunken ship was right by our cruise ship where we stopped. So cool.


Rowing in the jungle is hard work.
Our last stop was Grand Caymen. We'd rented a sailboat and had an amazing time. The water was unreal, like someone poured blue raspberry jello in there. We snorkeled with the sting rays. I'll admit it freaked me out. I got in though and loved it, until they started feeding the sting rays. Then they got very comfortable with us and I got very uncomfortable with them swimming all over me.They were so huge. It was a really incredible experience. We also got to snorkel by a reef. It was equally beautiful and amazing.We participated in as many events on the boat as we could. Robyn won a Minute to Win It game and got over $100 in prizes! She was awesome. It was so fun.Here is our whole group with our favorite magician, Paul. He would do some crazy cool card tricks and we caught his show whenever we could. One day they had a dance class where they taught us the Thriller dance. Luckily Ken and I had packed some 80's clothes. Here is a picture I stole from my friend Sandy. It is our dinner table one night. This is after they'd already cleared away the appetizer plates. We ate SO much good food. We'd spend 2 hours every night at dinner, eating, laughing, and having a wonderful time.





This is Miami when the boat pulled in after the cruise was over. When we got off the ship we had a day in Miami with the Porters before we flew out. We found this amazing open air Cuban market and had some awesome food and walked along the beach.





Anyway, if anyone has made it this far in my long, long post I'll thank you for indulging me as I reminisce our wonderful vacation. It was beautiful, fun, and so nice to leave everything behind and just enjoy hanging out with each other and wonderful friends for a week.