One Year Ago Today!!

This week last year we were soaking up the sun on a Caribbean Cruise.... Oh to be able to go back in time. We had such a great time. We went with friends.... Shane & Kim Keppner & John & Tiffany Baker... Thanks for the invite guys we would have never done a cruise otherwise and I have so many fun/funny memories. So we will pretend like it was this year and blog about it so I won't forget!!

Here is Shane, Tom, a showgirl and John. The funny thing about this picture is that Kim got mad at Shane because "he was smiling bigger in this picture then he was in the picture of the two of them" Don't mind Tom and John snuggling right up to her... in fact where is John's other arm?? Just kidding sorry Kim I have to give you a hard time that was too funny!! The funniest thing happened a few days after this whole picture incident, we had gone up to the topless deck, we had been there a few other times and no one was ever really up there at least not topless, we just went up there because it was one of the only places with lounge chairs left. Well on one of the last days we went up there and their was a topless girl...... John, Tiffany, Tom and I arrived a few minutes before Kim & Shane and we noticed the girl right away.... well Tom and John faced themselves facing away from her, and Tiffany and I were just kind of to the side, we were totally discussing whether she had orignal parts or not.... well Shane and Kim came up and did not notice her, Tiffany and I were laughing like 6 year olds just giggling waiting for them to notice. Well Shane sets his chair so he is facing directly towards this girl and Kim the opposite way, so she is right in Shane's view, Tiffany and I are now laughing even harder with the whole picture thing we know Kim is not going to like this. Well he is looking straight ahead for a minute and then he notices his face was so classic!! So our little girly giggling is now loud laughter as Shane tries to explain how he was looking at them painting the top of the boat... Ya right we say and continue to laugh it was just so funny that he takes his chair and moves it to have a perfect shot of the topless girl. Well she rolls over so you can not see her anymore, Kim had her headphones on so she missed the laughter and the quick back peddaling Shane was doing!! I still think she may not know about this! We laughed for days about it.

We went to this Dolphin Cove place in Jamaica.... It was pretty cool, the ship director said it was like Disneyland, however he failed to mention that if you did not sign up to swim with the Dolphins it was like going to Disneyland and not riding any rides.... Here is me pouting about not swimming with the Dolphins.... We did however get to snorkel here which was neat, when we got done snorkeling I walked to the end of the dock and this dolphin swam up to me and let me pet his nose. I didn't realize I wasn't supposed to do this until the workers started freaking out.. I was so excited it was really neat like we were just having a moment the dolphin and I, but this is what made me really want to swim with them. It is a really neat place.

This was at Tulum. It was this ancient ruin city. It was soooo cool. The water was beautiful and we had so much fun swimming here. Right here in the water, Tom, John, Tiffany, Shane and I were all swimming all the sudden this huge wave came up over us it picked me up and threw me down, then picked me up and threw me again, it was like I was rolling like a tumbleweed. I stood up all embarrassed thinking all these guys had seen my bum or something worse because my swimming suit did not stay in place.... but when I stood up and looked around they were all shaking the stars out of their heads as well, it had picked us all up. I wish someone had gotten a picture/video of this event to see one little wave throwing 5 adults around like rag dolls. I am sure some of the people on the shore got a few butt crack shots if not some boobies too.

Look at the color of that water!!! Oh what I wouldn't give to be able to dive in that right now!

Tom & I at Tulum (above not below!)

Like I said we saw a lot of beautiful scenery!

Tulum again...

"The Germans are Coming The Germans are coming".... Tom came running out of this tunnel thing yelling this only to have a few German speaking people come out right after him. Maybe you had to be there but we laughed pretty hard..

John, Kim & Tom at Sting Ray City in Grand Cayman. This was such a beautiful place also. We almost didn't get to come here, our excursion had been cancelled due to weather, but I was not going back to the ship with out doing something!! I had gotten a little stir crazy luckily Shane found us a bus driver that would take us back to the ship later and we caught a boat out to this place. It was so neat swimming with all the sting rays. If you have never done it you have got to try it!!

John & Tiffany
Days on the cruise, (if you were not stopping somewhere) were just like hanging out at a buffet all day. It was nice, ice cream and lemonade at any given moment. Nights they had shows, comedians and this dance group. They would put on little shows. Tiffany Baker was so fun to sit next to because she would just laugh and laugh at the dancers. Especially this Rogerish European guy in very short shorts at one point. Who kind of reminded you of how Napoleon dances. It was good times I tell ya!!

Tom & I buffeting

Kim and Shane at the buffet as well. (Cute picture)

Me at Sting Ray City this little sting ray just wanted to snuggle up!! It kind of freaked me out at first, but then I thought it was really cool.

Tom at Sting ray city. He loves this kind of stuff... snorkeling, water, sea creatures etc. He was totally in Heaven!

All 6 of us at Dunns River Falls in Jamaica, we hiked up to and through this water fall. It was really pretty, I wish we could have walked through it on our own, so you could see more of it instead of peoples bums in front of you.

This whole trip was amazing we had such a good time with good friends. We should all go again. We swam, read books, played cards, played trivia type games which by the way Shane is the master!! Ate lots. (I think everyone but Kim probably gained a little weight) laughed and laughed at lots of dumb things. Like the dancers, like stuff out in the hall John is not taking credit for!! (inside joke), Tom explaining why the stop lights in Florida are sideways, We played some jokes, shopped, saw amazing places. It was the best!!! So like I said I wish I could go back just one year (today) GOOD TIMES