Friday, November 20, 2009

Cruise!

Last week Jake and I took a little trip to paradise! About 2 years ago Jakes family planned this cruise it seemed like the day would never come. We went with Jakes family and several friends. We sailed on the Carnival Valor. Its supposed to be one of the biggest ships that carnival has, and it was seriously beautiful. We were a little nervous our cruise would be canceled or redirected due to the horrible hurricane Ida. It was so crazy windy in Miami and was dark and over cast the first day at sea. But lucky for us it went the opposite way.
Here are some pictures of us at dinner!
[It was crazy how attached we got to our servers]
Our first stop was Grand Cayman. There we went to Sting Ray City. If any of you have been there you understand me when I say it is seriously incredible. So they take you out to the middle of the ocean and all the sudden its only like 4 ft deep and there are just hundreds of sting rays everywhere and they are all slithering around you. I had no idea it would be like that it blew me away. Sometimes I wish I lived closer to the ocean so I could experience that feeling everyday!


[Some of you may think this is porn! But our tour guides promised that if you "french kiss a sting ray you will have good luck for life"]

Our second stop was to Rotan (Honduras) unfortunatly it was a complete down poor that day. We were all so bummed because it is one of the most green and beautiful places I have ever seen. Besides the fact of no sun, we still carried on with our plans. We took a small boat over to a private island and did some of the coolest snorkeling I have ever seen. Where the coral was so high you had to swim in between and the fish were everywhere. This private island took in animals that may be sick, injured, bad behavior, etc. and the owner has to get rid of them. It was so cool They had a jaguare there because its owner had to get rid of her. when she was 6 months old only 75 lbs. she killed a full grown horse! just crused its skull, freaked the heck out of me. This island also had the cuttest monkeys I have ever seen. They would come to the cage and grab your head and then give you kisses! You cant get that and the hogle zoo!

[Ya she may look small]

Stop three was belize! There we were not able to take any pictures because we were wet the entire time. We did cave tubing! So you hike through this jungle which is rediculous. The whole time were were saying we felt like we were at Disney Land only this time the scenery was real! after the hike we went on a river ride through this cave. I wish I had pictures to describe what it was like. Like all caves it was pitch black and freezing cold! Over time from the fresh water of the river the cave had develop different transformations (kinda like the rocks in southern utah). it took all day so we werent able to enjoy the rest of the city.

Our last and final stop was to the beautiful Cozumel! We decided not to plan any excursions, we were ready for a day at the beach! The weather was the best we had all trip, and we really just chilled it was great fun and what a wonderful way to end our trip!


Anyways now we are home and hating this crappy winter weather but are excited for the holidays to be here! Im sorry I have been such a slaker lately with my blogging, and I feel like I have fallen off the face of the earth I am going to try and be better but no promises!