Cruisin'

I'm finally posting some pictures from our wonderful Caribbean Cruise! It was a fantastic way to celebrate our 10th Anniversary. Many, many, many naps were had! The water was breath-taking, and the beaches were gorgeous. We loved our cruise and had a blast!!

This is the awesome little boutique hotel we stayed at in Miami the night before the ship departed. Our room wasn't ready when we got there, so they bumped us up to a suite. It was very trendy, shabby-chic, and VERY South Beach. We loved it!!

This was our first port of call in Grand Turk. This was a tiny island covered in feral horses and donkeys. The population of the island is only 3,000, so it doubled when a ship was in port!

We went Snuba diving in Grand Turk, but we haven't gotten the underwater pictures developed yet. Snuba is like Scuba diving, except that the air tank stays on the surface of the water on a little raft. You're connected to it with a 20 foot long umbilical. So, you can stay underwater, but you can only go about 15-20 feet deep. This is a lot of fun and doesn't require all of the training that Scuba does.

Every night there was a different little animal made of towels on our bed. Luckily, I smooched this little frog and got my very own prince!

Our second port of call was Half Moon Cay (or Half Monkey as "Chet," our cruise director pronounced it.) I can't even tell you how beautiful and pristine this beach was. We could see the bottom of the ocean floor even when we were on the boat, and the sand was as finely grained and silky as powdered sugar. Ahhh...paradise.

There were hammocks hanging all down the beach that
allowed for a lot of happy reading time.

Our last port of call was in Nassau, Bahamas. This is the famous Atlantis Resort that you see on TV all the time. That arch that connects the two buildings on the right is known as the Bridge Suite. It costs $150,000 per night to stay there with a five night minimum!

This happy group is comprised of all the friends that sat at the tables near us for dinner each night and our two waiters Edy and Izzy. The two ladies to the right of me are Tonja and Christina. They were hysterical and made our cruise dining experience a blast each night! We're hoping to see them again someday.

Shrimp-tail nail tips. Just doing my part to reduce, reuse, recycle!

Troye and Chris are two of our very best friends. It was their 10th anniversary also, so they joined us on the cruise. We all had SO MUCH fun together. Blake and I must have said a hundred times how glad we were that they took the same cruise. Thanks for all the fun memories and laughter, C & T!!

Look, it's me and Blake!

and me and Troye.

This is a picture of our cruise director Brent who we immediately nicknamed Chet. If you can't just look at the picture and understand that, I don't know how to explain. He was such a Chet!! Laughing at him was one of the highlights of each day.

Tanya and Christina (the dining neighbors) quite literally dragged Troye and I onto the dance floor on Motown night. It was so very fun and more embarrassing than I can explain. Note my look of "Oh no you did not just take my picture!"

Oh look, it's yet another picture of me and Blake. This was "elegant dining" night.

AND just to round things off nicely, it's another picture of me and Blake. We are wrapping up the week here, rested, relaxed, and ready for the next ten years of our wonderful marriage!