The Carribean

For Christmas this year my parents brought all of us kids on a Carribean cruise! Talk about spoiled. We had the time of our lives.

Unfortunately, I was having so much fun that I too often left my camera behind in our stateroom. So there will be more words than pictures in this post. :)

Day One: Great Stirrup Bay, Bahamas

I know, he's hot.

We spent the day on the beach! The water was amazingly blue and we rented a humongus tube on which we floated out into the ocean and looked at pretty little fish. I saw Dora! Oh, and we played a fantastic game of sand volleyball!

Day Two: At Sea

I basically ate 6 soft serve ice cream cones on this day. We played lots of games, went to Zumba, watched "Jurassic Park" and enjoyed each others company.

Oh, and I got all fancified for dinner.

 That hand thing must have passed on a generation. ;)

 Isn't she pretty!?

 Okay, okay. I looked real tan next to my mom. Now next to Jordo I look all white again.

 SELFIE!!

I loved every second spent with that sweet little boy. He is so kind and loving. I could just eat him all up!

Day Three: Ocho Rios, Jamaica

We spent the day at all an inclusive with the best water slides I've ever been on. I also got like three virgin pina coladas. We spent most of the day playing volleyball in the pool. My dad may or may not have beat ALL of us (jord, chels, jord, me, skyler, lauren, and matthew) with him and 6 other nine year olds. Whatever.

 That's our cruise ship behind us! Don't judge my arms. I don't know when they started looking all sad and flat like that.

I probably should not have drawn attention to that. ANYWAYS...

Cutie.

Day Four: Georgetown, Grand Cayman

This was my most favorite day, BY FAR! We took a small boat out to the Stingray City! Basically, its in the middle of the bay where the sand is raised and you can stand with the water to your waist. Orginally, it was where fisherman would clean their catch for the day. Over time, stingrays started going there to eat the droppings from the fisherman. Now, the stingrays go there to get food from all of the visitors. They let you pick them up and hold them!

A guy told us he would take pictures for us, so we didn't worry about it. Only to find out that he was going to charge us an absurd amount for them! Whatever. I still got to kiss a stingray. Just no picture to prove it.

Afterwards we went snorkeling. So so so so fun!

 LOOK AT THAT WATER!!

 Okay, my mom and matthew are the only ones that looks cute in this picture. Sorry, guys.

 Ooo la la.

Can you see the camouflage animal!?

Day Five: Cozumel, Mexico

Today we went to Tulum and saw amazing ruins!

 My camera even felt hot and humid!

On our way back a MASSIVE storm came in. We had to take a ferry back to the boat and it was the scariest experience of my life.

We took this picture only to make ourselves laugh for a few seconds. It was terrifying. But we made it back safely without tipping over and dying. Thankfully.

Day Six: At Sea.

When we got back in port we spent the day playing in Miami! We honestly had such a blast.

Our trip was so full of love and family.

Thanks mom and dad!!