CRUISE

Perry and I just got back from a cruise. It was alot of fun. We had a hard time leaving Logan, because I've never been away from her for more than a few hours. Although we knew she was in good hands with Perry's sisters Chelsey and Brittani. I'm sure she loved all the attention. Anyway, it was a nice to be able to spend time with Perry. We had a good time. Below are some random pictures.
Waiting to go Our ship-the Costa Fortuna (It was an Italian ship)

Here we are at dinner with the other two couples we were seated with. They were both so nice. The couple on the right is from Lebanon (now living in Canada) and the couple on the left is from Honduras (now living in Florida). We had fun talking with them every night and went to some of the shows with them.

Here I am enjoying one of my all time favorite desserts raspberry cheesecake. Yeah-I pretty much had it every night for dessert along with 1 or 2 others. Formal night-they had two formal nights- some people go all decked out like its prom-its kind of funny.

How low can you go? Here is Perry doing the limbo. He actually did pretty well. They had two guys doing a contest to see who could finish their ice sculptor the fastest. After 10 minutes of chipping away it looked like this: a beautiful swan

1ST STOP SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO

In San Juan we walked up the streets and went shopping. After shopping we went to a spanish guitar/dancers show. Our San Juan stop was in the evening. I wish our stop would have been during the day because we didn't get to see a whole lot before it got dark. Perry-thrilled to be shopping.

Spanish guitar show. The guy that played was awesome. While he played there were three girls that danced. This picture didn't turn out very well.

2ND STOP- ST THOMAS, VIRGIN ISLANDS

St Thomas was probably my favorite stop. Here we went scuba diving. It was awesome.... I was really scared at first because it has been 3 years since I have been. It all came back to me pretty easy though and once I was under the water I relaxed and just had a good time looking at all the fish and coral. It was amazing. When we showed up at the dive shop one of the other guys we were diving with had a U of U hat on. Come to find out everyone we happened to be diving with was from Utah. All from 3 different boats. How random is that? Anyway, we had a blast.

Here we are on the dive boat.

Perry-ready to dive Ready or not-here we go!

Here Perry is holding a jelly fish. Our dive-master saw it and picked it up-apparently he knows which ones are safe to hold. We saw 2 sea turtles. It made my day because more than anything I wanted to see a sea turtle. This one even let me touch his back. In this picture he blends in-but he is right smack in the middle of the pic. Pretty fish

After scuba diving we went snorkeling at Coki Beach. The snorkeling was awesome. All in all we had a great day.

3RD STOP- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

At the Dominican republic we went to Bayahibe Beach for the day. We were surprised as there weren't very many people who spoke english at all. We ate at a bar and grill on the beach and nobody spoke english in the whole restaurant. The menu was in spanish and prices were in pesos. It was actually a little bit frustrating-needless to say my spanish classes I took in high school didn't work very well for me. Bayahibe Beach-beautiful beach but extremely crowded. We also weren't prepared for the topless old ladies running around-yikes! At least there weren't too many of them.

A little boy cut this coconut so I could drink it and gave it to me for free- but wanted me to go inside his fathers store to see what I wanted to buy. (There is always some catch to everything that is free)

4TH STOP NASSAU, BAHAMAS

Here we went shopping in the morning and then caught a water taxi to the 500 million dollar Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island. Atlantis was huge- you could seriously get lost there. It is so pretty with tons of pools and water slides-but also costs a pretty penny to stay there around 300 or more a night I think. At atlantis we walked around the resort and saw their aquarium. (one of the largest in the world) You can see part of Atlantis in the background of this picture.

Perry posing with a very ugly fish After seeing Atlantis we went and played at cabbage beach. (I made Perry walk a mile on the beach to what was called snorkel point-I don't know why they named it that because there was no snorkeling just a bunch of moss. At least we had the beach mostly to ourselves. Per showing his muscles