Caribbean Cruise, December 2012

I'm so proud of Chris.  He hit his sales goal last year, 2011, and won a trip for us to Caribbean.  They paid for Anton's way as well.  We are so thankful.  We were gone from December 2 - 9, left out of Galveston, TX.  We just got back.

It doesn't seem like Christmas now but I'm glad I put up decorations before we left.

It was Carnival Cruise, on the Magic ship.  We stopped in Jamaica, Cayman Island and Cozumel.  We had so much fun.   The cruise is geared to a more Spring Break or party crowd, but we found our places on the ship to have a great and relaxing time.  It is so nice to not have to cook meals, and do whatever we want.  

Lessons learned...invest in a waterproof camera.  I thought I'd save money and bought a plastic protector, it worked fine but I think taking the camera out with wet hands ruined the camera.  It is just best to have the right camera for those memories.  Nevertheless, I managed to get in a few pictures and videos.

It was so educational for Anton also, to visit new places (and for all of us!).  We studied the Mayan Indians and there we were in the Yucatan Pennisula.  Also, Anton remembered some things about starfish he had learned from watching educational TV programs (he was teaching me :O)

 view from the 10th deck looking down in glass elevator.  This ship was a beast.

 ship had a water slide and ropes coarse that was fun for Anton, and us old folks tried it also.

Jamaica (Montego Bay).  We toured Rose Hall, a
sugar cane planation that had a lot of interesting history.

Here is a You Tube video of Johnny Cash's song with a little tour of Rose Hall.  

we're approaching the sandbar after about 15 minute boat ride.

the water becomes more shallow, looks like swimming pool.

the dark areas are coral.

 Stingray City tour, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

This stingray is a mommy with about 3 pups in her tummy.
I'm congratulating her :O)
she was so sweet.  our guides were great.

 This is a stringray wound from feeding a little boy stingray, they don't have teeth but can be aggressive feeders.

 I picked up a starfish from the bottom.  yay me.

this is the view from our balcony as we left Cayman

we joke about the Mayan end of the world,
that we had a talk with them.

fun picture, the pirate on back is on stilts, the one in front
is supposed to be a puppet on strings.  such mean faces!

 Anton found a baby conch in Cozumel Island, Mexico.

Anton finally got to build a sand castle on the beach.  new experience.

We were starving, ate at a restaurant near the pier.

took this picture right as we were disembarking Cozumel at sunset.  

formal night picture of us from dinner on the ship