Monday, November 23, 2009

Cruise Day #4 Wednesday

Wednesday morning we arrived in Grand Cayman later than expected. We planned on getting off and taking the girls to see the town, but the tender was several hours behind schedule. So, we decided to stay on the boat and hang out by the pool. So, after breakfast we walked around for a few minutes and the headed to the room to put our suits on. We had a great time swimming in the pool with the girls. We were the only ones swimming, everyone else was waiting for the tender ticket numbers to be called. Good thing we decided to stay and relax. We would not have been able to get off until after 12:00. The Seales arrived early after noon and the girls got to swim with them too. We swam all afternoon and ate a late lunch before heading to the room for nap.
*It was really bright outside. I thought this was a funny picture

We had another fun night at dinner. Here are the dance pics.

It was PJ movie night at Camp. Abigail wore her PJs but Hannah did not want to take her "pretty dress" off. After camp I picked them up and we headed to the room to see our towel friend. Another great day on the BIG Boat!

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Day # 3 Tuesday

I awoke early Tuesday morning, to use the potty one of those great perks of pregnancy, and felt calm peaceful seas. Thank you LORD!! Tuesday was a great day we were in my favorite spot, Cozumel!!! We put our swimsuits on, grabbed our beach gear and headed down for breakfast. After breakfast we met our buds the Seales on the pier, hopped in a taxi and headed for the FABULOUS Chankaaab park. We spent the morning snorkeling, swimming, relaxing and playing in the sand. The only disappointing part of the park was that they didn't serve the yummy Mexican sodas that I remember drinking as a kid. They were all "Americanized" stupid Coca Cola!
After playing and soaking up the sun we grabbed a late lunch at one of the restaurants in the park. I was excited to eat some yummy Mexican food. Seems that the Lord answered my prayers and took away my nausea for the week :) S0, I finally had an appetite, for the first time in 15 weeks. The guacamole was incredible!! Dancing with Daddy occurred around the table here are a few pics.


After our bite we headed back to the ship and Trey took the girls to the room to nap while Paula and I shopped the town with our private security guard, Donn. Man ,did the beach wear Trey and the girls out! This is what I found in the room when I got back from shopping. They were so deep in sleep they could not even be found :)





Good thing they had a good nap! We had a fun and yummy dinner . One of our waiters made each of the girls a mouse, "napkin folded all fancy". Each night at the end of dinner they would kiss and hug their mouse and Alfredo would tuck it in for night night in the dish cabinet behind our table, So adorable!! Here are some pics of the girls loving on their mice. Also, a few shots from the night's dance party. The girls loved dancing at dinner each night :)

After dinner the girls had a Fun filled evening at Camp Carnival, while trey and I spent some time alone. It was "Pirate Night" for the kids, Sooo.... Cute!!! They looked so cute I even had one of the professional photographers take some shots of them after I picked them up. Seriously, it was so cute that people were stopping as they walked by to watch the photo shoot. "What does the pirate say? ARRRRRRRR...."




And finally to close out our Terrific Tuesday. We have our Towel friend. With only one friend the girls would switch off nights loving on him and cuddling him in bed. It was a very exciting part of the trip each night.










Cruise Day #2 Monday

Monday morning we woke up to a rocking boat. Abigail and I stayed in bed and Trey took Hannah down for breakfast. He arrived back in the room feeling sick :( Our poor Abigail got sick twice but thankfully Hannah seemed unaffected. So, Hannah spent the day with Sarah Seale. She called to check on us and thankfully she was not feeling sick either so she offered to come get Hannah. They had a fun day. Here is a picture of the rest of us trying to recuperate *at least we can still smile, for the camera. You can see the nausea in Trey's eyes and I am looking pretty pale.




Things really calmed down by 3:00pm and we decided to get out and check on sister. We picked up sister and got a snack since we hadn't eaten all day. Then we headed to the room to get ready for dinner. Dinner was our first formal night, we had a great time! We had two adorable princesses at our table care of "Sedah"

After dinner all the girls went to the show or to see the "dancers"Abigail and Hannah really enjoyed the show. But Hannah got too sleepy to stay the whole time, she told me she was ready for night night, so I to her to the room. Abigail finished the show and had some hang out time with Pauwa. Here is Hannah with our first towel friend. She was very impressed.

Even with the rough waters we still had a great first day at Sea! But, Thank the LORD for calming the Sea!!