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| Day 1 |
The Honeymoon was just MAGICAL! It was perfect and even better than my ideal. :) We boarded our ship on Sunday in Ft Lauderdale and headed out to the Caribbean. That night we were assigned our place for dinner and had a wonderful waiter Gede (Pronounced Good-Day, we would always tease him and say "Good Day Gede") from Indonesia and his assistant Vlado from Serbia. We made great friends with them and loved hearing their stories about where they came from. We always tried to get them to speak their home language to us and we'd try to guess what they said.
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| First Formal Night (Vlado on Left, Gede on Right) |
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The next day, Monday, we arrived in Key West at 8 a.m and were off the boat by 8:15 for our first excursion: "The Big 3." This involved, kayaking, snorkeling, and sailing to the Dolphin Playground. I took my underwater camera on all the wet adventures we had so I don't have those ones developed yet. I'll put up what I do have though.
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| Getting Ready for the day (Brian made me post this!) |
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| Heading to our little boat |
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| About to jump in to snorkel! |
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| I took this without him knowing... and just LOVE it! |
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| Just a view |
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| No, that is not a shark. Yes, that is a dolphin. |
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| Our friend, Oliver. :) He swam all around our boat! |
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| Our CRAZY hats! |
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| That statue was SO tall! |
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| This is where we fell asleep on the beach and Brian FRIED his arms! |
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| Dinner! Day 2! |
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| These are some friends we met that played Caribbean music that we swung danced to! We had a huge crowd watching and cheering us on! |
So that was Key West! The next day was a day at sea where we just played games, saw some shows went hot tubing and chilled! Dinner that night was the first formal night! Oh! And I forgot to mention the awesome friends we met on the cruise! At dinner we were placed with another couple. Their names are Debbie Allen and Eric Robinson. They were just a couple years older than us and had started dating the same time Brian and I did.. Except, they were still dating and Brian and I were married! So we got a few laughs out of that! We enjoyed every night with them! They were so darn cute! They live in Pennsylvania and are going to school for Physical Therapy.
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| Dinner! Day 3! |
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| Eric and Debbie with us! |
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| Hot Tubing! |
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| This is Brian.. acting full. |
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| This is Anna.. acting full! |
Wednesday was Grand Caymon! We once again docked early and were off the boat early and onto our excursion! We sailed to Sting Ray City! We got on a little boat called the Allura and sailed to the middle of the ocean. No Joke! There was no land on any side! But there was a sand bar where when we got out to swim, the water came up to our waist or lower. But we were surrounded by string rays! They came right up to us so we cold hold them and kiss them. (Literally! Our guides made us do it! haha) After sailing we rented more kayaks and went out in the ocean once again and just played around! :) What a wonderful day it was!
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| On our way to our little boat! |
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| Here we are sailing! |
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| Just going down a little canal |
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| Here we are swimming with the Sting Rays! |
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| We swam on the 7 mile beach! |
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| Check out this guys Dreadlocks! They are to his ANKLES! He told us it took him 22 years to grow them! |
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| Do you see all the fish? This is from our kayak! |
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| Dinner! Day 4! |
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| Us just about to swing dance! |
Thursday we went to Jamaica! We were off the boat early and we went straight to Dolphin Cove to snorkel. We had a blast and in the tank right next door.. only a small wall separating us from these huge sharks! We held parrots and iguanas and huge snakes! It was so crazy! Next we headed over to Dunns River Falls. the 600 ft waterfall and we climbed up that! We took our time and didn't stay with our guide and just played around! After we climbed out and walked through the forest on the side and it was just so gorgeous! So many flowers and trees!
We then went down on the beach and rented a jet ski and just flew around the water! Brian went so crazy we got in trouble but we just laughed and still had fun! After we got pulled into these little shops and stuff where the clever Jamaicans got some money out of us with their clever ways. They would quickly carve our name on stuff making it so we felt completely guilty not to buy it. We hurried out of there fast! Tonight was our second formal night! We danced some more, went and walked around the boat and on the deck! It was great! We didn't want the cruise to be over!
Last Day of the Cruise! It was another Sea Day and we were sad to leave! We got up early to watch the sunrise over the ocean which was so beautiful! We then just chilled once again all day and ate a ton! We went hot tubing, saw a couple shows, took a nap, and partied it up!
As you can see we had a FABULOUS honeymoon and are starting our adventure off wonderfully! We are sad to head back to reality but ready to embrace it together!
