Barbados

In Barbados we never took a tour either.  It was supposed to have fantastic shopping and a beach right close by, so we thought we would do that.

My Sister being a celebrity, with her glasses and shopping bags.  We went to a few stores, but never made it to the beach.

The houses there were like in St Thomas, all on a hill just look like they grew out of the greenery.

I thought I could match my nails to the ocean.

This building was pretty cool, not sure what it was, but I like the clock tower.

Me sitting on a pier with our ship in the background, not sure how my sister was inventive enough for this one, but its cool.

This dock led to the beach, but after walking forever, we gave up and went shopping so we never went to the beach, which is too bad cause it apperently was one of the best beaches on the whole trip.  When we go again, I want to spend more time relaxing at the beach.

This wasn't my favorite stop, but I think I was caught up on it because it is always talked about, and we never took an excursion so we never got to see more than just at the port.

Day At Sea and All Around the Boat

On our second day on the boat was a day at sea, it was supposed to be a stop in Dominica, but that got changed and so we had a relaxing day at sea insted.  In the casino was all these blue lions so I made my sister pose by them.

We watched and ice carving demonstration, but it was hard not to get distracted by the giant tv screen.  It was so cool, every day they played 3 differnt movies on it and you would watch them from the deck chairs or from in the hot tub!

This guy, from the Phillipenes brought a 300 pound chunk of ice onto the deck and carved it into a native american.  He was quick, it took him about half hour from start to finish.  Even so, it had started melting before he was done.

We spent the day learning about diamonds and other jewels and suntanning and swimming and at night we were gonna take some sunset pics, so here is my mom.

And she got me too, not the best outfit for picture taking, my swimsuit coverup, but we werent thinking of that.

They have this roof over one of the pools and hot tubs that closes every night and its nice underneath it, humid and warm, but not super hot.

The sunset was pretty but then it got stuck in the clouds, but I think it looks cool how it lit up the top of the cloud.

My ssister waiting for the elevators again.. She got her hair highlighted before we went, but I think it looks pretty natural.

These are the glass elevators in the lobby right when you get on the ship.  They are pretty cool.

Looking down at the piano bar from up a deck.

Me trying to hold up the ship made out of mosaics.  This was my sisters idea.

And the fish thingy that was outside of our dining room, so we got to see him everynight.

These pictures are mine and some are my sisters as well,  I combined them and took the best ones.  I like a day at sea cause there is a ton of stuff on the boat to do that gets missed when you stop in ports.  We played bingo and my sister won $300 twice!!  I never won anything, but was happy for her.

The Start of a Vacation...

Our vacation started with me going to ride Razz for one more time before I left.  I rode her and she was good then I got Jardi to give her a massage and we had a coffee then off to Calgary where me and my sister got a manicure/pedicure.  I chose a turquoise blue cause I wanted to match the ocean.  She had told her boys they could stay up as late as we did since it was the last night with them all before we left.  We watched Chronicles of Narnia:  Vogage of the Dawn Treader.  it was pretty good, but I guess I wasnt paying attention to the books when I read them cause I dont remember the cousin.  Anyways, we left on the plane at 7 am (which meant we were up at 3 to be at the airport by 4 cause we thought we needed lots of time to get through customs, but we were through in like 15 minutes, and so we got a coffee and breakfast muffin and sat in the chairs waiting forever for the plane to get there.  This is an Ice castle in the Dallas/Fort Worth airport, it was kinda weird.  Thats my mommy walking by it.

From Dallas, we had a flight to Miami and in thier airport is fishes in all different shapes.

Finally from Miami to San Juan.  It seemed like it took all day to get there, but since its a 3 hour time change I guess it wasnt so bad.  But we were exhausted so we got to our hotel and headed to bed.

The next morning we had all day in San Juan, so we went to the beach and watched waves crashing on the shore, then we went to the Mall of Americas.  Huge place and super busy!  There was a pick a number at the jewellry store even!  And it was all locals, not tourists.  I forgot everyone speaks spanish there, although most can speak some english, more in the touristy spots.  I have a learn to speak spanish game I shoulda brushed up before we went cause I sure don't know much.

This beach was about a block from our hotel and was being cleaned every morning by people raking up seaweed and shells.  Kinda nice looking after they were done.  We did some shopping at the stores close by and spent the rest of the day by the pool.  Then the hot tub later on.

We tried getting lots of photos, but we were so busy shopping and looking around, the forst day we never got much, so we stopped at the park and mom posed on the cement lawn chairs (that are actually comfortable!)

Some of the trees down there are so pretty!  They had all kinds of flowers on them, these white ones sure looked nice.

We spent that night at the hotel as well, and then Sunday was the big day to get on our boat!