Cruise

My mom decided to plan a family trip since Ryan and Julie returned from their missions. We found the best deals over Thanksgiving break. I missed the lavish turkey dinner, but we had a blast on the trip. We went on a cruise. It left out of Puerto Rico and traveled to St. Thomas, St. Maarten, Antigua, St. Lucia and Barbados.

The prettiest island was St. Thomas. My favorite excursions were on Antigua (we did a zipline followed by a ropes course) and Barbados (we went snorkeling with turtles and at a ship wreck).

Crusing is awesome. I had been on one other cruise before, but this one was better. There is so much to do one the boat and food is available 24/7 with incredibly fancy dinners.

We had a different towel animal each night to greet us.

Watermelon carving at the midnight buffet. I wish I could do this!

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico, we were glad that we had Ryan to translate for us on the trip. Most of the taxi drivers spoke Spanish.

Travis had a steel drum lesson from a local at St. Thomas. I thought of you Kat.

Megan's Bay, rated one of the top 10 beaches in the world, located at St. Thomas.

We went parasailing in St. Maarten

St. Maarten, great shopping

Zipline Challange at Antigua

The zipline was awesome, but the ropes course afterwards left me exhausted!

We only had a minute to look around Barbados. This was on Thanksgiving Day. We went on an excursion snorkeling with turtles and at a ship wreck. I wished that we had an underwater camera. The turtles were so close to us. Travis bumped into them while swimming. The ship wreck was a French ship from WWI. It was the best snorkeling I have ever done.