Cruisin'

Jeremy and I are very aware that we live a pretty fortunate life right now...and that as soon as we have children it will come to a screaming halt...but until that happens, we are grateful for all the places we get to go and beautiful things we get to enjoy.  Last month we were able to go on a cruise as part of Jeremy's work.  We felt ridiculous having a driver meet us at the airport and then ordering room service..who are we? No one important, that's for sure!  But it was fun pretending to be so important!

This is us catching up on our favorite show "Parenthood"

The view from our hotel balcony (the night before we left for the cruise in Florida)

Our ship was the biggest thing I have ever seen.  There were different "neighborhoods" to look like a boardwalk, NYC Central Park, a shopping area, Casino...there was an  ice-skating rink, zip line, wave-riders, 4 pools, mini-golf, basketball courts, etc.  It took 30 minutes to walk from one end to the other (ok, only a slight exaggeration!)

Our room balcony

There were three ports...this was Haiti in the morning as we were coming close.

Jeremy and I took some of his French distributors on this zip line...a little scary jumping off, but after that it was really fun!  Here is the platform where we began and then where we ended up:

 After we were done, we got to go swimming and hang out at a private beach..owned by the cruise ship, of course!  In fact, the entire town was property of the cruise line, so it was really like fake Haiti!

The one element that I loved and hated was the artist community.  There were native Haitians selling their handcrafted items in these little stalls, but they haggled the heck out of you to buy everything you looked at...so I bought nothing.  I probably would have purchased something as a souvenir, but it made me crazy!

The next port was in Jamaica.  It was still fake Jamaica, again owned by the cruise ship.  Jeremy and I just got off the boat to eat some Jerk chicken.  All of the shops were diamond stores and we just weren't into that kind of shopping.

The last port was Cozumel and it was the best.  I don't know why I didn't take any pictures there..oh yes, I got sick.  I got sick on the ship the night before and it literally took me three weeks after to get better.  I don't know what it was, but my throat hurt for three straight weeks.  We had a nice time on the cruise, but I am pretty sure we wouldn't choose to go on one again.  It just wasn't our style, but grateful to have had the chance to try it out!