Back on Dry Land

We're back from our Cruise! Just the 2 of us enjoyed the Carribean this past week, the cruise made stops at Princess Cays (Bahamas), St. Marteen, St. Thomas, & Turks and Caicos. As many of you know, I have a fear of flying so we drove down to Ft. Lauderdale, where we sailed out of. Ace was dreading the drive so we made a stop in Jacksonville for the night to visit his best friend Michael & his girlfriend Nikki, that made it a better trip.

It was both a fun & relaxing vacation, much needed for husband & wife after having a baby, you need a whole week of not talking baby talk or waking up early...just a week to get to know each other again! We slept until 10 most days, even noon one day, normally I would think that was extreemely lazy but both of us had trouble sleeping at night because of the rocking. I have been on cruises before & never felt that much rocking, I thought we were in a hurricane the first night but the crew all said that it has been like that all season, every night, it was like you were in the wave pool at White Water.
And the funniest thing about our cruise, the very first night, we ran into our friends Alex & Courtney Tetterton, no, neither of us knew we were even going on a cruise! We had a fantastic time with them.

Ace has the good fortune to be able to relax & slow the day down, while I am always ready for the next thing. I did feel like I may have rushed the vacation a little because I was so ready to see Parker from the time we left. He did look bigger when we got home & he had perfected the crawling & also was going from the sitting position directly to crawling & he was also pulling up on the stairs! So much can happen in a week at this age, it's unbelievable.in the dining room the 2nd night

our ship at Princess Cays, we had to take a boat to the island

1st formal night with Alex & Courtney

The Champagne Waterfall night

On Coki Beach at St. Thomas, probably the most beautiful beach I've been to

I got in trouble for taking this picture of the funny donkey

Iguanas on St. Thomas, they just roam around like stray cats

On top of a mountain in St. Thomas, this is Meaghan's Bay


Ace went snorkeling with his underwater camera & a dog biscuit

The last night in the dining room