Well, there you have it, our cruise adventure. Thanks so much for Patty & my mom, making it possible for us to go. It was such an amazing experience, that we will FOREVER remember, and FOREVER wish we could repeat.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Liberty vrs. Grandeur
In 1998, Kale and his family went on a Royal Caribbean cruise. Their ship was "Grandeur of the Seas". They thought it was enormous. It was fun to pull up in port next to the Grandeur, and be able to look down on it. Ours was bigger. :)
Food
The food on the ship was amazing! The last day of the cruise, the chef staff had a display on the Royal Promenade. The food was amazing! We were there a little bit before it got too crowded, so we were able to get a few pictures. After a bit, it was so crowded we could barely walk around. Needless to say, that was when Kale and I found some place else to be. :)
Our Towels
If you've ever been on a cruise, you know that they fold your towels into some sort of cool shape once a day. So....these were our towels (at least the ones we deemed cool enough to take pictures of).
Grand Cayman!
Grand Cayman was our FAVORITE stop! We really, really want to go back and stay for a week. We just weren't there long enough!
We did a double-dive chartered by the cruise ship, and then we had about an hour to walk around after that. Our dives were amazing!
We had used all of the underwater cameras we took, plus one we bought in Costa Maya. We were going to buy another for Grand Cayman, but figured the stuff we'd see on our dive would be the same as the other Caribbean islands. We were SO wrong! Major regret on our part!
We did a double-dive chartered by the cruise ship, and then we had about an hour to walk around after that. Our dives were amazing!
We had used all of the underwater cameras we took, plus one we bought in Costa Maya. We were going to buy another for Grand Cayman, but figured the stuff we'd see on our dive would be the same as the other Caribbean islands. We were SO wrong! Major regret on our part!
Our guide/dive master found this Lionfish on our dive. They are not indigenous to the area, and kill other marine life, so when they find one, they remove it. You can't touch it with your bare hands or you'll get stung. "If a human is envenomed, that person will experience extreme pain, and possibly headaches, vomiting, and breathing difficulties." The guides carry gloves with them, so they can catch them if they are found. Super cool!
We passed a large sea turtle on our way down, saw some really cool wreck sites, some bicycles on the bottom of the ocean (a practical joke among the dive employees from the states), LOTS of really cool fish, more turtles, a Lionfish (see above) and a Grouper that weighs probably more than my entire family combined. If we would've had a camera with us, one of us would've gotten on one of the bikes for sure, and rode on the bottom of the ocean.
Our dive master was from a small Wisconsin town. He said he was NEVER going back. (I don't really blame him!)
7-mile beach. The most beautiful beach I've EVER seen! Perfectly white sand beach, absolutely clear water, and perfect weather.
Oh how I long to be in Grand Cayman, again!Cozumel
We dove in Cozumel with a friend of a friend (thanks Tori!). Fernando was amazing...and our dive was amazing. It was so much fun. Our only regret is that we only had 1/2 a roll left on our under-water camera, and we failed to take any other pictures of Cozumel with our regular camera. We didn't really have much time to do anything else except dive....but it was a VERY fun stop.
Above picture: a fish floating nose down. So cool to watch! We've never seen anything like that before.
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