Eh mon!

We’re back from our cruise to Jamaica, settled in, and school has started back.  I didn’t really get any recovery time in between so I’m exhausted!

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The cruise was fairly disastrous, but we had fun anyway.  Justin got a stomach virus the second day and was quarantined to the cabin by the medical center, so we had to cancel our excursion in Jamaica.  So when he was allowed off the ship we decided to just walk around town.  Bad idea.  The beaches in Jamaica are really pretty, but the town area is really gross.  It was still pretty interesting with some neat historical sites, though.

 

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The weather in the Cayman Islands was so bad that they closed the port.  So we didn’t get to get off the boat in Grand Cayman.  🙁

 

The weather in Cozumel was bad too, but we were able to get off the boat.  It was raining and so cold!  We were supposed to go parasailing, but it was canceled because of the weather so we ended up renting a Jeep and driving around the Island.  It turned out to be really fun!  We love Cozumel, it’s so clean and friendly, and the beaches are amazingly gorgeous!  Good margaritas too!  Hehe.

 

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Mayan Ruins

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Great to get out of town.  Beautiful beaches.  Next vacay is going to be more vegan friendly though, I ate gardenburgers and salads from the salad bar for 7 days straight.  That was all they offered that was veg friendly (can you believe it?!).

Back to the grind!

Cruisin’ to Cozumel!

The second part of our vacation was a 4 day cruise to Cozumel.  I don’t really have a running commentary on this part of the trip- just lots of random pictures.

 

The Lego version of our ship.

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Mimosas and relaxing by the pool.  Relaxation was the theme for the trip- lots of chilling by the pool and reading!

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This dude carved this ice sculpture in 20 mins flat!  It was pretty awesome to watch the big hunk of ice actually become art!

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Cozumel.  We pretty much spent the whole day on the beach relaxing and swimming.  It was pretty fab.  We did a wee bit of shopping when we got tired of the beach. 

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Paradise beach!  If you go to Cozumel I recommend it.  It was free! 

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This little guy was just chilling at the beach.  Pretty, huh?  He just looked at us like “what’s up, guys?”

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Can’t go to Mexico without having a coke!  Seriously, so much better than our cokes here (real sugar, not HFCS!)

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And what’s a cruise without towel art?!

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We couldn’t really tell what this one was- a monkey of some sort?

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He wanted some candy, so we said okay.  As long as you don’t spoil your dinner!

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Justin wanted to snuggle with him too.

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I even got a book on how to make them and tried my hand at it.  It’s supposed to be a pig- what do you think?  Should I make a career out of it?

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Random sunsets…

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And when we got home the pups were REALLY glad to see us!  Anabelle was spinning in circles as soon as she spotted me (which she does a. when she’s excited and b. when she has to pee.  LOL).  And the Harley Monster was the Harley Monster.  I don’t think she recognized us at first because she barked at us.  She didn’t sit still the whole way home!

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Well, that ends our great adventure!  It’s back to normal life now.  And I have a week and a half until school starts!!  I’m way excited!!