Girls Cruise

I recently had a chance to go on a girl's cruise with my friend Alisha Oldroyd. We had a great time! We did pick up a stalker who ended up being at our table the first night. We asked the maitre'd to change our seating assignment because we were married and wanted to just have a fun girls cruise. The next night (formal night) we were seated at this table. (The one below.) They put us with six single Air Force guys! Sheesh! We got a good laugh but actually we had a fun time. They guys were really nice, and even went with us to some stuff, like Karaoke.

Here we were on the formal night.

My cousin Garrett just happened to be on the cruise! So neat, right?

We went to Chichen Itza when we ported in Progresso, Mexico. It was closed to walk throughs because they were cleaning up graffiti. That left me feeling kinda cheated...

It had some neat acoustics, though. While standing at the top you could talk and the whole arena could hear you. Weird...whatever could THAT have been used for? :-)

Garrett happened to be on the Chichen Itza tour, too. Cool!

Garrett leaves on his mission in like a week. He's such a great guy. I am so proud of him.

OK, so Chichen Itza is where the winners of the ball game got sacrificed. (Gotta lose to win...haha) and they mounted the heads of their enemies on this weird temple thing. Here's the explanation of that.

Here I am in front of the head mounting dais. Skulls everywhere. Ick!

See the skulls?
This was the platform where the royalty watched the "to the death" ball game.

They were refinishing that too, so it was blocked off too, but here's the field entrance... Lame!

Here we are doing a bit of shopping after out dolphin encounter... (photos of that separately)

And this is for Megan--ORANGE punch buggie. There were like a million punch bugs in Mexico. Seriously like every 8th car.

There's our boat in the background. We almost got on the cruise out of Galveston. Since we booked our cruise like a week out, it had just filled up so we had to travel to New Orleans. If we'd left from Galveston, we would have been delayed by two days. The Galveston boat got stuck in Progresso and then Cozumel because it had engine issues. YIKES! :-)

Here are two of the guys--the one on the right reminded me in both appearance and his mannerisms of Jesse. Awwww!

Here were our kids when we got back. Eli and Dora really wanted a photo of them with the "tiny camera".

These loaded out of order for some reason. Me and Garrett on the first day at sea...

And me and Alisha in front of the boat after Chichen Itza.

YAY for a girls cruise!! I need to plan the other one already. Anyone want to come?