Here we are waiting at the airport for our flight
On our Southwest flight, they made us newlywed crowns of pretzels and stirrers
Our room had a balcony overlooking the water
John ordered the romance package for the cruise, so we had all sorts of delicious food delivered to our room
Of course no party is complete with a little champagne
A beautiful view of the water from the balcony of our room
Because our flight was four hours delayed from Orlando to San Juan, we almost missed the boat. Fortunately, we made the boat but were missing our luggage for a few days. Royal Carribbean outfitted us!
Finally John gets a good meal
Finally a chance to relax on the deck
A little champage to celebrate that we made the boat
A little bubbly
Cheers
Our room was made up twice a day and our guest room attendant always left a towel animal for us!
A view of St. Lucia from our deck
St. Lucia
Boy its bright out here in St. Lucia
the Port of St. Lucia
St. Lucia's port was beautiful!
Our boat was huge!
Every port we went into, our boat was the biggest of all the other cruise ships
Our first day off the boat in St. Lucia
We get ready to board the tour buses in St. Lucia
St. Lucia view
In St. Lucia they drive on the left side of the road
and the streets are really narrow in St. Lucia
A view of St. Lucia
Overlooking St. Lucia
Banana trees in St. Lucia
Banana trees all over
A goat in St. Lucia
The rainforest in St. Lucia
St. Lucia rainforest
Pineapples growing in the rainforest
St. Lucia rainforest on our hike
Bananas with a funny little pod
Coconuts in the St. Lucia rainforest
Midway through our hike in the rainforest, we stopped at a waterfall. One of our guides went into the forest with this huge machete and came back with all sorts of tropical fruit
Cutting the coconut up to eat
Overlooking St. Lucia after our rainforest hike and swim
Drinking some spiced rum punch. Woo-that stuff was potent! St. Lucia was really big on it!
Okay the rum punch was digusting!
Finally we got our suitcases and had our clothes to wear. Here at the ice skating show, John shows his true colors.
Our cruise ship had an ice rink on board. We went to the show, which was actually quite good!
The ice skating show
During the ice skating show, the main skater “danced” with a lifesize doll...sounds weird but it was hilarious!
Another one of the cute towel animals!
Finally off the boat onto Barbados where a steel drum band entertained us
The beautiful blue water in Barbados
The Cricket World Cup was being played throughout the West Indies
Our huge boat in Barbados
Mount Gay Rum, a traditional drink in Barbados
Beautiful Barbados beach
Once again, driving on the wrong side of the road in Barbados
A house in Barbados on our drive to 4 wheeling
Ah, I wish I were on that sailboat in Barbados
A view of the blue water in Barbados
Our drive to 4 wheeling in Barbados was long, but beautiful
That's where we're going 4 wheeling?
Barbados
An old windmill in Barbados
Before we went 4 wheeling they gave us these lunch lady looking caps to wear underneath our helmets
Yeah, 4 wheelin in Barbados
Yeah, we look awesome!
Yeah, let's go
Grrr...time to go
Yeah, here we go!
Phew, 4 wheelin is hard work...time for a break and a little picture taking
The beautiful beach in Barbados
We stopped on the beach midway through 4 wheelin...we were filthy!
Ew!
After a long day of 4 wheelin, we were disgusting
Here's where the cricket world cup was being played in Barbados
Time for dinner!
They had a 50s Theme night dinner on the boat. Here's John looking like the Fonz
Here's our dining room
The dining room was really impressive
50s Night
Here's us at our table
Hey look another towel animal
Whoah, there were a lot fo people when we docked in Antiqua
Antiqua
Chrissy's ready for a sunny day in Antiqua
Another steel drum band entertains our arrival in Antiqua
Antiqua had some British influence by the look of those telephone booths
John chatting it up with our tour guide in Antiqua
A little bus tour of Antiqua as we make our way to kayaking...here's a pretty church along the way
Antigua
John's looking forward to kayaking
Here's where we kayaked to in Antigua
Kayaking in Antigua
Ah, a little dip in Antigua
Ah, that's better-Antigua
A drummer entertaining us as we wait to board the boat in Antigua
More of the drummer in Antigua
Ah...another towel animal
Ah...relaxing from a full day of kayaking and snorkeling in Antigua
Getting ready for formal night dinner on the boat
John is still tired from his day in Antigua
Hey look we're in St. Maarten/St. Martin
Isn't St. Martin beautiful?
St. Maarten/St. Martin is split in half by two countries the Netherlands and France. Bizarre, huh?
This island being shared by two countries is weird!
Okay, last towel animal...I promise
Yep, I'm the captain of this ship-St. Thomas
St. Thomas
I've never seen a steel drummer smile so much-St. Thomas
St. Martin and there's St. John in the distance
St. Martin and St. John in the distance again
Whoa John...dancing with a pirate
Goodness, St. Thomas is scary!
In St. Thomas we went on underwater scooters...it was very weird and scary at the same time! There is only 200 of these in the world. You sit on them and stick your head in the bubble part. They use the bell theory so that water doesn't get in.
Our captain lowered the scotters into the water and then we jumped in and got on them.
Yep, we went on one of these-St. Thomas
Hey look we got tatoos!
John shows off his tatoo-okay its airbrushed!
Chrissy's tattoo!--okay, its airbrushed!
That's our waiter on the right with his hands up
All the waiters and staff
Here's our waiter...he always seemed to know what we wanted to eat
Look at this cool floor that was in our ship's casino
Phew...what a fun week...almost ready to leave the ship
San Juan, Puerto Rico...our bed & breakfast was right on the beach
That's our cute little guesthouse that we stayed at in San Juan.
The famous San Juan dish: Mafongo--yummy!
San Juan
John is king of this fort in San Juan
the fort in San Juan
a fort in San Juan
Hey we found the fountain of youth in San Juan
What a bunch of dorks...but look at how pretty San Juan is
San Juan is beautiful
Old San Juan
Ta-da! I'm queen of this fort!
Pow! Defense at the fort!
Old San Juan-a cemetary
Another fort in San Juan
Don't shoot!
A little chapel we found in the fort in San Juan
Old San Juan-looks a lot like Europe
A Beautiful old church in San Juan
I've never seen hell depicted like this in a stained glass window
this definitely looks like Europe...but we're still in San Juan
