Caribbean Cruise

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For our ten year anniversary, Rex and I dropped the boys off in Oklahoma with my parents and then went on a week long  cruise to the eastern Caribbean. The ship was HUGE  and we were entertained every night with incredible performances. We saw the Broadway musical "Cats," a live concert, an ice skating show, and a diving show - and that was all on the Ship!  
See how happy we are to be in the airport without kids?!

 Good bye reality! We're off!

For the first night, Rex got reservations for a Hibachi grill - something that I've wanted to check off my bucket list!


Our fist stop was in Labadee, Haiti. We went on a Cultural tour of the island where we got to see what a typical village is like. After the tour, they dropped us off on a private beach where we could just relax for a couple hours. Talk about our advise!

The next day was a day at sea. We swam, went rock climbing, went surfing (on deck!), and just generally relaxed and ate way to much free ice cream. 


The next day (June 9) We stopped at Jamaica. This was my most favorite stop because we zip lining through the jungle for a good 3 hours or so and then we went hiking up a waterfall. SO COOL!!!


We had a day at sea the next day as we made our way to Cozumel. This so happened to be our anniversary so we got prettied up and went  to a fancy steak house. 


Our last stop was Cozumel, Mexico. We went scuba diving all day but didn't get any pictures because we didn't want to pay a gazillion dollars for their photos (and they didn't allow amateurs like us use underwater cameras. Grrr.) It was still awesome though and absolutely beautiful. 


 




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