Cruisin 2010

What better way to start off the new year than with a cruise? Yep...definitely the best! Although it ended up being super cold (Miami was 24 degrees!) we had so much fun. It was the annual Homeshield Cruise, and this year had the worst weather by far, but I have never had that much fun on a cruise ship before. All in all...it was great to get away for a few days. Sorry for the overload of pictures...but hope you enjoy :) The first day in Miami..waiting to take off

Love the towel animals! Here is our monkey and our elephant
From Miami we went to Key West..not my particularly favorite spot ever (this was my third time), but we had fun regardless! Don't we always??
our boat docked in Key west
This was our only nice and sunny day, so we all rented scooters and drove around the island for a few hours. I got a teensy bit of sun too!

After a few hours we all met up at a beach and played some sand volleyball. My idea of fun for sure
That night was formal night. It always amazes me how some people go all out on this night (like prom dresses and tuxedos!), but it is always fun to dress up this night. Although, as soon as dinner was over at least half the girls in our group went and changed :)
My friend Jenna and I. Met her this summer and it has been love ever since :)
Our table on formal night. Starting bottom L and going clockwise: Austin and Carrie Ethington, Cristina and Jeff Greatorex, Jess and I, and Trevor and Emily Jones

So, if you have ever been on a cruise you know that there are constantly annoying photographers taking random pictures of you. I have never bought one, nor know anyone who has ever bought one. So, instead I took pictures of our pictures. I couldn't find them all, but here are a few that I happened upon.



Kyrsten and I watching our hubbies play blackjack

Next stop Cozumel, Mexico! I had been here once before with my family and wasn't really impressed. This time was better, but the weather did not feel like cooperating. It was terribly windy and raining the entire day we were there...but we made the best of it! Everyone rented jeeps and we drove around the island looking at the ancient Mayan ruins. Then we ended up going to a local restaurant on some back streets where we had AMAZING (I'm not kidding) AMAZING Mexican food. YUM!

Standing in the middle of the ruins
This was the largest ruin on the whole island
The beaches here are beautiful! The water was like 83 degrees...warmer than outside!

Here is our jeep. It was a complete piece of garbage! The ceiling leaked, the windows leaked. Basically we were soaked by the end of the day!

This night the boat took off back for Miami. We were to be at sea all night, then all the next day and night. Unfortunately Poseidon was unhappy with our ship for some reason and the sea was angry!. I have never been on a cruise ship that moved that much! You couldn't even walk straight! Luckily Jess and I don't get sea sick, but a good majority of our group got really ill. So, we decided to make a game out of it. Some of us had contests to see who could stand on one leg the longest, or would run down the hall to see who would fall last! Then some of the guys had a trust circle where you would fall and the people around you would catch you..sort of random but guess you had to be there!
They had a sweet fruit bar at midnight with this fruit man!
The trust circle
That night we also played this super fun picture drawing game that I have never heard of but am going to play all the time! It was hilarious
How sad is this...this was the ONLY time we were in the water the entire cruise! We all decided to go hot tubbing our last night!

The dance club was always a good time. This picture is Jess, Gavin and Jason trying to be candid. This was the last night and we stayed til the club closed! Good times :)

On the last night we also played this game with basically our entire group (we had 70 people). We all crowded into the library and played this dice money game. You roll dice and whatever numbers you roll you either have to put your money in the pot, pass it left or right or keep it. You start with three dollars each, and whoever ends up with the last dollar wins the entire pot!


Last night at dinner :)

Although it basically felt like we were on an Alaskan cruise, we had a blast! I can't wait until next year when we get to all get together again because Jess really works with some great people.