I have failed to
ever take our under water camera in to get developed so I am going to go ahead
and blog about the cruise and bag those pictures. The problem is I feel like
the cruise was forever ago and my desire to write about it isn’t really there.
But considering this is my only pathetic way of a “journal” I will write away
and reminisce about our week in paradise!
We flew out of Vegas the 7th of April on the Red
Eye aka hell on an airplane. I thought flying during the middle of the night
would be this great time because Scoti would just sleep and I could sleep and how
great does that all sound. Noo, Scoti screamed for a good 2.5 of our 3 hour
flight. Which wasn’t only the worst thing for me but for every person who
booked the red eye because they thought they would just sleep. She was so tired
but couldn’t sleep so was so fussy, which was so bad! Never ever again will we
do that.
Our cruise left out of Galveston, which was a first for us.
We cruised the Western Caribbean visiting; Montego Bay Jamaica, Cayman Islands and
Cozumel. Our first couple days on the boat were sail days and we had so much
fun exploring and getting involved. We all played in the 18+ dodge ball
tournament and Chad left the ship with some hardware and was declared the MVP.
One of his greater accomplishments in life. Scoti loved the water park, pools
and anything that had to do with getting wet. She wanted to be wet and swimming
at all times of the day. Scoti was also famous on the ship, she was “that
baby”. I swear everyone knew her
and loved her by the end of the cruise. She loved all the loud music too,
whenever we were out by the pools or on the decks and music was going she was
shaking those hips and dancing for everyone. There were lots of good shows, too
much good food, games, swimming, golfing, basketball, tanning and I’d be lying
if we didn’t love us some casino time. Big winner right here! $800 big ones.
Woot woot.
Wednesday we were in Montego Bay Jamaica. We did a city
tour, visited some special house, had some Jamaican food, and went to a fruit
stand then spent hours at the beach. There were these ladies that kept asking
us if we wanted massages. We kept turning them down until they said free
sample. Of course you take a free sample and were we sold or what. These ladies
were legit and you better believe every single one of us got massages on the
beach. You can’t beat 30 minutes for $15. We also found scoti’s love for the
substance of sand. This girl would roll in it, get buckets of it and pour it on
her head, she was eating it and we couldn’t get her away from it. She loved the
ocean too and going swimming with everyone. We really jacked up Scoti’s sleep
schedule being away so she would go without no nap all day and then once we got
in our van to head back to boat she would just pass out in my arms.
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| Aunt Bay and Scoti |
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| Griffin |
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| Aunt Bay and Scoti |
Thursday we were in the Cayman Islands. We got in a little
tour boat and sailed out about thirty minutes off of the island to a sand bar
where we got to get out and swim with the stingrays! I had already swam with stingrays
twice before but this was Chad’s first time and he was so excited and loving
life. He would dive under the water and only come up for air and then was right
back down. This is when I wish I had our underwater camera because we got lots
of good pictures kissing, holding and swimming with them. After, we drove off
another ten minutes where we were able to get out and snorkel. We would still
the cereal from the buffets and would dive down and open them up and fish would
come swimming towards you at every direction!
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| Payton |
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| Chad |
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| Cameron |
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| Papa Thompson |
Friday we were in Cozumel. We went to a resort on the island
where we got to just kick back and relax. They had a swimming pool,
restaurants, snorkeling and anything else you would want to do. Scoti played in
the sand for hours again, the boys snorkeled and the rest of the girls had a
good day laying out. The food on the resort was amazing and then we also got to
do a little shopping.
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| How they announced they were pregnant! With Twins! |
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| Best family ever! |
Saturday was our last day and it was another sea day. The
weather started turning Saturday afternoon but I think by that time everyone
had the sunburns they desired and we were fine not basking in the hot sun all
day. All in all it was such an amazing trip and it makes it that much better to
be with all your family. We had such a great time and can’t wait for our next
cruise or whatever it may be!
