Monday, April 6, 2015

Cruise

For Spring Break this year we went on a cruise with the Enloe family.  We were at sea Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.  Then we stopped in Roatan in Honduras on Wednesday, Belize City in Belize on Thursday and Cozumel in Mexico on Friday.  We had another day at sea on Saturday and were home early Sunday morning. 
Dave so kindly dropped us off at the ship.
 Katie and Garret waiting to get on the boat
 Carter and Garret
 The kids' room.  Garret's bed folded down from the ceiling.
 Katie and Olivia took pictures all over the boat


Garret eating an ice-cream cone.  There was a self serve soft ice cream machine on the boat.  The kids had lots of ice cream cones.






The girls got into our makeup
Eating is one of the best things to do on the boat.  The first night they didn't have a table big enough for all of us, so Katie and Olivia sat off by themselves at a table for 2.

 We ate lunch at this 50's burger place on day and the whole staff came out and danced for us.  Olivia, Garret and Carter got up and joined them.

 More eating!
Formal night at dinner
One of our favorite things to do on days we were at sea was to play games.  Our rooms happened to be on the 7th floor which was right by the library.  The kids would gather and play games.  They only got kicked out once for being too noisy.



Our other favorite past time on the boat besides eating and playing games was the flow rider.

We had a private session on the flow rider one night.  It still wasn't enough. (I don't think the boys could ever have had enough.)












 Ice skating.  Katie was pretty good.  Garret not so much.



Rock Climbing Wall



The best show by far was the Beatles tribute band. 
 Garret fell asleep on my lap one night during a show.
In Roatan we went zip lining.  Then we went and swam at a beautiful beach.

 The guide zip lining with Garret, Carter, Olivia and Katie all at once.
 Kirt
 Tanner
 Emily
 Carter and Garret
 Garret
Katie

 The beach after zip lining. Bought the food from the venders on the beach.

In Belize we went 4 wheeling and cave tubing (don't have any pictures of the cave tubing).





In Cozumel we went snuba diving.  It's like scuba but you don't have a tank on your back.  You have a regulator that is attached to a 25 foot long hose that is attached to a air tank that floats on a raft at the surface.  Garret and I had a hard time breathing with the regulator, but Katie and Olivia were pros.  We went in 2 groups Kirt, Garret, Katie, Olivia, and me then Eric, Tanner, Jackson, Hayden and Carter went.











Saturday, April 4, 2015

Pre cruise visit with the Frey's

Our cruise left out of Galveston, so we flew into Houston on Saturday and got to stay the night with our friends the Frey's.  It was so good to see them.  We miss them so much.  Katie and Alina picked up right where they left off.  Sunday morning was Easter and General conference.  We got to watch the 1st session of conference and then Dave took us and dropped us off at our cruise ship.  Ingrid was so kind to make our kids Easter baskets.  I had told the kids they weren't getting any since we were going on the cruise and I didn't have any room to pack anything in my suitcase.