~Belize~

In Belize we chose to spend the day on what was described as a "private island". I guess it's private if the other people there are 300 of your closest friends! We spent the entire day just laying in sun chairs reading and enjoying the scenery. It was absolutely gorgeous!

Our view was for the day

I was super excited because you got a fresh coconut with coconut juice and rum, and though it looked cool, it sure didn't taste all that great!

Josh entertaining himself... he attempted this shot MANY times after this, but nothing beat this first one!

Getting some love from the greatest man I know!

Seriously, this plant is HUGE!!

All burnt and tan enjoying a walk aruond the ship after dinner

And it's a monkey tonight!

~Tabyana Beach, Roatan Honduras~

We didn't take many pictures at Tabyana Beach. We spent most of our time just relaxing with our sun chairs on the water's edge. I attempted snorkeling, and I am DEFINITELY going to need some practice doing it before we go on vacation again!

Isn't this place beautiful? I told Josh we are for sure coming back to Honduras for a vacation. Whoud would ever have thought that the country of Honduras would be a delectible tourist destination??!!

Here I am soaking up the sun and LOVING the warm clear water

Gotta love Josh and that camera! Sorry most of these pictures are of me! :-)

We really enjoyed our afternoon at Tabyana beach, and on our bus ride back to the ship, we met a family from PUYALLUP! Actually, one of the women lives 3 blocks from me! Crazy! At the end of our night, burnt and exhausted we came back to the room with a bulldog for a towel creation! Josh was in heaven! Unfortunately, for the next year or so, that's the closest he'll come to owning one!

~Roatan, Honduras- Anthony's Key Resort~

Here we are just before we got off the ship for Roatan. This island was the most beautiful place I've ever seen. The jungles were the kind you only see on tv.

When we got off the ship, one of these girls grabbed me and started dancing, and I was like "This is great!!!" Suddenly they had Josh next to me, and he's not much of a dancer, so I was surprised. They grabbed us, posed for a picture, then pointed at a cash jar! Ha! We totally fell for the biggest tourist trap ever! I felt like we HAD to give them something decent, even though there wasn't a set amount. I got caught off guard like this in Key West too!

Here we are waiting for our tour to start. We signed up to swim with dolphins, and go to Tabyana Beach. The resort and the beach were on opposite sides of the island and I wish I would've taken pictures of the jungles we drove through!

Meet Fiona! She was our dolphin for the morning, and such a sweetheart! I'd never touched a dolphin before, and they feel like wet suits!

Josh getting a kiss from Fiona

Josh was teasing me because I was smiling so big when she was kissing me!

In the water enjoying our time with Fiona

I did NOT want to get out!

I only pretended to hold her, she weighs 250 pounds!

Isn't this place gorgeous??!!

~Georgetown, Grand Cayman~

Josh LOVES Kenny Chesney, who mostly sings about the caribbean and margaritas, so of course we had to go to Margaritaville!

Senor Frogs~ They actually had a sign by the door that was similar to "You must be this tall to ride this ride", but it was "You must be this tall to drink!"

Even far away that ship looks HUGE!

On the boat back to the ship

Before dinner...

Josh hanging out with the pig who stole his sunglasses


Grand Cayman was pretty cool. I LOVED Stingray city, and would go back to the Cayman Islands for that alone!

~Stingray City, Grand Cayman~

Swimming with Stingrays is also something I've wanted to do as long as I can remember. It's so crazy to think I've wanted to do this, seeing as how I don't like ocean water! Though, as you can see from the pictures, you totally forget you're in anything other than a pool~ I've never seen water SO clear!

On the boat heading out to Stingray City. It's nuts because out in the middle of the ocean, there's a sandbar that's too shallow for sharks, and stingrays live there with absolutely no predators. They are so accustomed to being around people they circle you for food!

I was so excited about the whole thing! We were told the water was waist deep, so I jumped right in... ya, not waist deep! I couldn't touch the bottom, and they tell you that you must shuffle along the bottom, and not bounce, so you don't step on a stingray, who will in turn sting you in defense.

Can you see the stingrays? Some of them were HUGE!!!

This one is a baby

Again, thanks Garry for taking so many pictures! We had a water proof camera with us, and though we got a few pictures, we kept forgetting to wind the film, and didn't get most of them! Sad!

I couldn't belive how close they would get! I was screaming and laughing and hanging onto Josh for dear life!

This guy in the corner ran our tour, and would give us rays to hold and kiss. He could tell them apart and had actually named a couple of them!

Thanks to Garry for this picture! Unfortunaly we didn't get pictures of me kissing the same stingray, and the ray climbing up my back! If you put squid on yourself, they shimmy up your body eating the squid! It's so crazy!