Just 'Cruisin' around

This last month has been pretty busy for us. Besides the fact that Ryan works all the time!! and I hardly see him and sleep alone every night!! Whenever we get the chance we take off! I guess it started the end of September, Ryan had one of 2 camping classes, then it was up to Rexburg for some mountain biking, we did stay home and lounge over conference weekend, so nice!! After that we went to MN to see my bestest buddy Kelltie and her cute little growing family and had a great time and last, then we went on a cruise to the bahamas, and last weekend Ryan had his last camping class!! We did work in there too! Whew, I am tired just thinking about all the traveling we have done especially after our cruise! That was a little stressful and a huge reminder why we don't plan things in advance, especially things we have to pay for!
So Ryan found a good deal on a 3 day cruise to the Bahamas who would say no to that. we figured since it wasn't really high season for flying we should be able to get there with minimal problems, WRONG!!! Thursday we were supposed to take the midnight flight to Atlanta, then it got moved to 4:50, and then when I got home from work we weren't going at all! Ryan had switched shifts at work to be able to leave early and so hadn't slept for like 2 days! And then instead of being able to come home and nap before we left he spent hours trying to find us a flight to Miami, and nothing. When I got home he was pretty much passed out in bed, poor guy! I proceeded to look up flights and found a flight to Denver that wasn't great but was better than most places and it left at 9 than at 1 am catch a flight to Atlanta and later Friday morning a flight to Miami and a taxi to the port. Nothing looked good, but by a miracle we made it!
The cruise was fun, we went of Royal Caribbean Majesty of the Seas. We stopped at 2 ports, the first was their own island Cococay and we really like that, it was just a nice beach and nice water and lounging around with a big buffet lunch! The weather was great in the 80's and not too humid.

Getting on the boat, after a long night of traveling!


Our room, was on the inside, small and dark, but good enough.


Here is the beach on CocoCay.





We only had one formal dinner, which was nice because I don't really have a lot of cocktail dresses! Dinner was good the first night I had lamb, the second night duck, and Ryan had es'cargo for his appetizer! And of course I always liked dessert!!

Here are Ryan's snails and him eating them! I even tried one, they really weren't bad, but just the thought of eating snails, I probably wouldn't pay for them at a restaurant!




The guy that cleaned our room left towel creations on our bed, the first time we weren't quite sure what it was?


we called it the creature. But the second day he made a little puppy! It was kind of fun!



The second stop was at Nassau in the Bahamas. It was interesting, the only beaches were hotel owned and there wasn't really a lot of shopping, not that we are huge souvenier shoppers, and there was a lot of poverty. the Hotel Atlantis was huge and looked fun to stay at, they had one aquarium you could walk around and see, but the see the other one and use there beach you had to buy a day pass, which we opted out of and just drove around the island on a ghetto scooter!! There happened to be a parade in the town that day and we almost didn't make it back to the boat! It was a little crazy, but a nice police officer let us be in the parade for a few blocks until we could reach the scooter rental place!





There were lots of fish in the aquarium a big sting ray and a really big manta ray! Neither of us got sea sick even though you could at times feel the boat rocking, the only time it was really bad was the last night heading back to Miami. We stayed up late and ordered room service just because we could so we thought we better take advantage of it! But neither of us could sleep due to the rocking of the boat, it was crazy being really tired I thought I might roll off the bed so I had to hang on to Ryan ;) !! All in all we had fun on the cruise and would do it again sometime.

Getting back was not so fun though! We got up to the main floor of the boat to check out at 7 am, checked out by 7:30 caught a cab and made it to the airport by 7:45. The customer service lady put us on the 10:30 am flight but there was no one in security and our gate was the first one past security so we ran over and they let us get on the 8:10 am flight! Lucky! To Altanta...not my favorite airport we ended up flying to Cincinnati, hanging out for a few hours then flew to Las Vegas. The flights from Vegas to SLC had 80 standby's on the list, we were at the bottom. So we got on a shuttle to St. George stayed with Ryan's friends parents, slept for 3 hours and caught a 6am flight to SLC then I went to work at 10!!! I am pretty sure everything we do has some kind of crazy adventure!! But I guess it keeps life interesting! This weekend we are keeping it simple all I requested was a date on Saturday night!