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| Jonah & Clay getting ready to go climbing on the rock wall, on the top of the ship... |
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| Go Jonah! |
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| He made it to the top! Way to go! |
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| Even Mr. Clay made it all the way to the top!!! Tough kid! :) |
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| Gorgeous views, perfect weather! |
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| Having fun swimming on board! |
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| And of course enjoying the unlimited ice cream! :) |
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| Getting ready to watch a show in the theater |
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| A performance by the Royal Caribbean singers & dancers |
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| Enjoying a delicious breakfast! |
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| Beautiful morning |
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| Our first stop was in Cozumel, Mexico. Our excursion was to Tulum. The Mayan ruins were amazing! So beautiful, and lots of fun! |
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| Listening to our guide, along the tour... |
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| Heading up, toward the ruins & view of the ocean... |
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| Amazing Mayan ruins at Tulum |
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| These giant black iguanas were EVERYWHERE!!! |
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| Absolutely beautiful tropical paradise! |
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| More of the ruins... |
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| Enjoying the tour |
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| I sure love these awesome kiddos!!! |
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| Having a great time! |
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| Beautiful coast! |
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| Heading back down... |
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| Love my girl! |
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| Enjoying a little beach break & lunch before heading back to the ship. |
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| Fun on the beach |
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| Neil & PJ enjoying some relaxation |
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| Tessa taking a little break |
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| So we had to take this "Water Jet" from our ship to the island, for our Tulum tour. On the ticket it said there would be a 45 minute "ferry ride", followed by a 1 hour bus ride to get to Tulum. It said to bring a beach towel and seasick pills. I thought, "Seasick pills?! It's just a 45-minute ferry ride. How bad can it be?" Well... It was NOT just a little ferry ride!!! Neil renamed it the "Vomit Comet!" As we started off, the workers began passing out barf bags for anyone who might need them. Hmmm....that should have been our first clue. I took a couple, "just in case," knowing we wouldn't need them. As we got going faster, we were bouncing up & down & side to side, all over the place. Jonah & Clay thought it was great, like a roller coaster, & put their hands up & were laughing. That lasted about 10 minutes. Then they started to look a little green. Clay ended up throwing up twice, I was doing everything I could NOT to throw up, and Jonah threw up as soon as we got off the boat! It was rough! I told the kids not to eat too much on the lunch break, before we headed back, knowing that we were in for another ride back, & didn't want to get sick again! At least the ride back wasn't nearly as bad! Whew! |
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| Heading back to the ship... |
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| Our second excursion was to Grand Cayman. They drive on the left side of the road, and the steering wheel is on the right side of the car. It was kind of strange. Grand Cayman was beautiful & we had a great time there. We went to the Cayman Turtle Farm, which we LOVED!!! We got to hold baby sea turtles & learn all about them. After that, we took a little ferry out to Stingray City, to swim with the stingrays! It was SO cool! Kind of scary, but very cool! I didn't get any pictures, because we were all in the water together, and my camera isn't waterproof, so we'll just have to remember the pictures in our head! :) |
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| LOVED all the sea turtles!!! |
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| Jonah & Clay with the baby sea turtles |
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| They were SO cute!!! |
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| All the kids, loving the baby turtles! |
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| Heading out to Stingray City, to swim with the Stingrays! :) |
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| There were TONS of the stingrays, all over the place, and most of them were huge--as big as a table! I wish we had been able to get some pictures of us all swimming with them! |
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| The next day we went to Jamaica Man! It was so much fun! We climbed the Dunn's River Falls (I attached a picture at the end, that I bought from our tour, because again, I couldn't take our camera up the falls or it would get soaked). It took about 45 minutes to climb from the base of the falls, up to the top. It was so much fun, so beautiful, and very cool! We all loved it! After that, we headed to Dolphin Cove & saw dolphins, sharks, HUGE spiders all over the place, big iguanas, snakes, lots of birds, parrots, and more, and enjoyed a little lunch break on the beach. We had a great time! We loved the little aviary that they had there, where we got to hold & feed all the little love birds. SO pretty! And the kids all got to hold some parrots & pet a huge iguana! |
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| A shark at Dolphin Cove |
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| Argh! Watch for the pirates, mateys! |
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| Enjoying the little beach break & lunch! |
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| The kids all got to pet this big fella! |
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| PJ with the iguana |
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| Checking out the cute little lovebirds... |
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| They loved Neil |
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| So pretty! |
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| As soon as we had bird food, then they REALLY started to get friendly! |
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| Tessa with her new friends... |
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| Jonah feeding his buddies! |
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| Clay's new friends |
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| Too cute! :) |
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| These huge spiders were everywhere! Good thing they aren't poisonous! |
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| The kiddos making friends with the parrots! |
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| LOVE the dolphins! |
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| So pretty! |
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| We all had a great time here! |
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| Lots of the hand-carved items out of wood, sea shells, & rocks. So beautiful! |
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| Doing a little shopping... |
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| Beautiful Jamaica |
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| View of the shopping centre, from the top of the ship |
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| Back on board, playing some games together |
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| Our new favorite game, "Spot It", that the kids got for Christmas! We played it a lot on board. Here we are waiting for a show to begin. They had an aerial show in the middle "centrum" of the ship. Some performers up on trapeze things, 10 stories up, doing flips & stuff. Crazy! At least they were in harnesses! |
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| The aerial show in the center of the ship. |
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| Playing "Trouble" together... |
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| Last stop...Beautiful Haiti! Absolutely gorgeous views!!! This was on Royal Caribbean's private island. We had a snorkel safari excursion planned, but it was cancelled due to strong winds. It was kind of cloudy & windy when we first got there & I was worried that it would rain on us, but within an hour it had cleared & it was warm & sunny the whole day. I guess it was still too windy for our snorkel tour, but we had fun walking around, playing on the beach, enjoying the buffet lunch, collecting sea shells, and just relaxing. It was a great day & a wonderful time! |
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| Our ship-- Royal Caribbean's "Grandeur of the Seas." |
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| Enjoying the local music |
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| My favorite people ever! XOXO |
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| Me & my kiddos |
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| The boys, hanging out... |
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| Our beautiful Tessa! |
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| Going for a walk... |
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| Doing a little shopping... |
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| Enjoying the beach time! |
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| Lots of fun! |
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| It doesn't get much better than this! :) |
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| The kids collected lots of pretty sea shells & coral |
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| Me & My Sweetheart! xoxox |
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| Had fun watching people on the zip line over the island. It would have been fun, but it was $100 for one ride. Not really worth spending $600 for all of us to have a 30-second ride! |
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| PJ found this huge conch, with an animal still inside! :) |
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| Some local dancers performing as we got back on the ship |
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| Watching one last performance in the theater on board, the last night. |
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| One of our favorite excursions -- hiking up Dunn's River Falls, in Jamaica! |
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| Good times? .... Yeah Mon! |
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