Day 4 - St. Thomas

Day 4 found us at St. Thomas. It was a bit cloudy, but we ended being VERY glad for the cloud cover (ie. shade).....

 Yes, that is a BIG ship!

...and here's Bob!!

This is what a taxi looks like on St. Thomas! We took on into town and walked around the shopping area for a little while...

 Totally LOVED all the old brick construction and the ginormous and FUNCTIONAL (they DO have hurricanes) shutters on everything!

 We also discovered that they have the coolest little alley-ways. This is one of my favorites, with my favorite person in it!

 Um....yeah, it made us laugh...

 After walking around the shopping district, we hopped a taxi ride over to Magen's Bay. No idea if I'm spelling that right. It just doesn't matter. What does matter is how beautiful it was!!!

 Yes, we laid out and read our books!

 Our lunch-time view....

 ...more lunch-time view....

 ....a golf course on the taxi ride back to the ship...

 

 One of the many, many gorgeous views!

Bob in the taxi!

If you look carefully, you'll see a funnel right over the yellow building...just to the left of the ball on the wire..... Yes, a storm (small) blew in just as we got back to the ship. Waiting in line, the heavens opened and we were drenched. At least it was warm out, so no shivering!!

 A view from Central Park (deck 8) down into the Promenade (deck 5) at night.

 Yup, relaxing with the comfy chair and a book again!

Day 3 - Day at Sea

I somehow have managed to not have any pictures from this day. Hm. I know we relaxed in the sun, read our books, and.....I just don't remember. (this could be good or bad....)

Day 2 - Day at Sea

Our first day was supposed to be at Nassau, but due to tropical storm Maria, our itinerary was reversed. Made no difference to us -- we were just happy to be on vacation!!! This was our first day at sea.....

We wandered around the boat and then found ourselves on the back of deck 16 watching the Flowrider:

 ....and discovered that Jeremy had taken a few turns. He does surf....he says the flowrider is almost nothing like surfing, more like wakeboarding. So here he is about to start off....

 He's a natural! Doing great!

Whoops! There goes Jeremy! Um, yeah....the only way to end your turn was when you fell....

 Later on we wandered down to the Promenade on deck 5. Totally cool area with shops and a couple of nice little places to get food....in between all the other meals! Oh, and our books went everywhere with us....we were determined to relax and read!!!

 THEN we found one of our favorite spots: Central Park (deck 8). It's a really cool garden area open to the elements (surrounded by rooms, so it really just doesn't have a roof) and some awesome comfy chairs.....

Yeah, we liked Central Park!!

Day 1 - Wedding!!

Day 1 was the WEDDING DAY!!!!

 So the first thing that happened was we were directed to a "holding area." Kinda boring, kinda felt like we were some sort of weird species that they didn't know what to do with....but maybe that's just these guys! (and where is Paul....I don't know!)

 Once on board, we were able to go to the wedding location....hands down the MOST comfy chairs we've ever had at a wedding!!

 ....awww....we're so cute again!

 Ok, so now THEY'RE cute!

 And YES!!! They are officially married!!!!

After this we proceeded to explore the boat and promptly forgot about actually USING the camera we were carrying around. Oops.

The night before.....

So I know that you will see all of this in reverse, but I just don't have the capacity to upload all of this backwards! Without further ado -- thus begins our trip!!!

The Night Before

All the wedding guests were invited to a Polynesian Dinner and Show on Friday night. The limo was HUGE, the food was fantastic, and Andrew and Kendra even got to show us how to dance!

 The HUGE tiger-striped limo!!

 ....and inside....

 ....and yes, we fit 20+ people into it....

 Awww....aren't we cute?

 Our party!

 Teaching us how to MOVE!

Random

So, it's been pretty busy around here. Bob's working like crazy, and so am I. While the girls were napping today, this was my life:

 I have no idea why I find this funny. No doubt that tomorrow I won't think it's funny anymore. But whatever, right now it makes me chuckle.....

Last day of swimming lessons

Three weeks of lessons! Danielle did SO well, I am so proud of her. She has learned so much and LOVES the water!

 One of the special things for this day was that rafts and floats were permitted in the pool. Danielle was able to use an inflatable kick-board float that she really liked!

 Fun thing #2 was a ride on the big 'surf board.' One of the little girls wasn't too sure about it, but Danielle was so sweet and kept telling her it would be okay....and it actually really helped her friend!

 Fun thing #3. Life jackets! Part of the course is life safety, so everyone got to wear a life vest and see that they REALLY work.

What was Ashley up to? (are you that flexible?)

 ....first she watered the grass. So kind.

....and then she decided to spend about 20 minutes getting cupfulls of water and randomly throwing them in the air.....not on herself, just around her. You can barely see the water falling past her leg in this shot.....(oh, to know what goes on in the mind of a 2-year old!)