Thanksgiving Cruise 2010

As I was going through our pictures, I realized we never blogged about our Thanksgiving Cruise! Nine days of Chuck-A-Rama at Sea! It was a very memorable trip! We had a great time.

Port Canaveral, FL, wishing we would have gone to the Kennedy Space Center instead of the beach.

Para-sailing in Key West!

The guy pulling us from the boat thought it was funny to dunk us. Probably because they all liked to hear me scream.

We loved Smothers Beach at Key West! We wished we could have stayed here longer before getting back on the boat.

This is us having fun with the timer on my camera.

I was following Matt on our rented bikes in Key West. We slowly approached a red light that turned green. Matt accidentally knocked over the bike of a beach bum on the sidewalk that fell into the street right in front of me. Matt hurried on because he was in the middle of an intersection, so I had to help the man clean everything up while traffic was stopped and waiting for us! I came around the corner to find Matt, and we couldn't stop laughing!

Nassau, Bahamas

 

Although the dive wasn't very deep or full of variety, it was very beautiful! The sun was shining, and we got to see some brilliant colors. We chummed the fish a little too, so at least we got to see 'em up close.

 

These crazy Bahamians would hang off the back of the boat as it was going. This picture doesn't show it, but they were pretty wild!

Cute Matt.

Coco Cay, Royal Caribbean's private island in the Bahamas. It was nice to find some beach to ourselves.

Video of Matt chasing an "island squirrel." (Iguana)

 

One of our favorite parts of the trip was going to the theater to watch the movies and the shows. I think this was before we watched my favorite movie, Despicable Me. The magic show was cool too.

The first night of our cruise, no one came to our table. We thought, this is going to be boring. The second and third nights, however, the rest of our assigned table showed up. They were hilarious! They were all so different from each other. Bill was probably the funniest. I'm sad we didn't ever get a picture altogether. This picture shows our servers, Jerome and Carlos. They were great.

We got to watch the Christmas tree go up!

 

One of our other favorite parts of the trip was listening to our books on our iPods. Matt got really into Dan Brown's Lost Symbol. I listened to Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson.