Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Caribbean Cruise Vacation Post #2

The third day of our cruise was spent in Curacao.  It is in the far southern Caribbean very close to south america.  We were supposed to go snorkeling that day, but as was usual for much of the vacation it was raining and it looked like storms were coming in, so it was canceled.  We were pretty bummed about that, but we decided to just go to the beach instead.  Fortunately after about 30 minutes of hard rain, it cleared up and was sunny for most of the rest of the day.  Oh yeah and we got to see dolphins on the way back from the beach!

The afternoon we went downtown at the port and did a little shopping.  We didn't buy anything, but have some great pictures of the architecture.  The colors of all the buildings were so awesome. Then there is also a floating bridge that connects one part of the island with the other that has a motor in it and will just move out of the way when big boats come through.  They even let you stay on the bridge while it is moving, which seemed pretty crazy to me.  Here are some pictures.















Monday, November 29, 2010

Caribbean Cruise Vacation Post #1

Last Monday, Luke and I got back from our cruise.  With all the holiday stuff and work, I haven't been able to post any pictures yet.  We had a lot of fun.  We left from Puerto Rico and then went to Aruba, Curacao, Dominica, and St. Thomas.  The weather wasn't the greatest, but overall we had a great time.

Day #1 was the day we left Puerto Rico.  We got to the ship around 3:00pm and explored it.  It is such an amazing site to see.  It is crazy how big the ships really are, liking a floating city or at least a floating hotel.  There were 2 pools, a rock climbing wall, putt-putt golf course, movie theater, theater for shows, a "mall", restaurants, bars, clubs, casino, and many other things.

Day #2 was a sea day so we pretty much just hung out on the pool deck all day, or at least when it wasn't raining.  That night was our first formal night for dinner so we got to get all dressed up and take a few nice pictures.   I'll stop here for now and start back up later showing pictures of Curacao.







Our Stateroom Attendant would make us animals out of towels every night.  Our first night was this elephant!