After our Costa Rica traveling experience we wanted to actually relax, so we flew back to Houston on Feb. 27th and boarded our cruise on the 28th! Which I thought we might miss since we only had a one hour connecting flight from Florida to Houston and we had to get through immigration and customs. But luckily my nagging and seeking skills of finding certain employees helped us barely make our flight! The flight crew actually held the plane for us for 5 minutes and we were the last ones on! We were literally running through the Fort Lauderdale airport and skipping steps as we ran up the stairs. I hope I never have to do that again. However, the worst part of this whole experience was that we were told by the airlines that we would have enough time. I asked several different employees and even asked before I booked our flights. I would have totally picked a different flight to avoid that! But it is what it is. We made it with no time to spare. We knew two other couples that missed their flights...who knows how many others there were.
Once our cruise started it was nothing but eat, sleep and read. It was definitely a relaxing kind of trip! And just what we needed before work and real life began again. It was so great to sleep in and not feel bad because you were stuck on the ship and had no obligations. And I had ice cream everyday, which was awesome! We may or may not have gained some weight on this trip ;)
Delicious food every night!
The Tulum Mayan ruins in Mexico. We met an LDS tour guide that pointed out many fascinating similarities between Mayan ruins and the temple in Jerusalem.
These ruins were all painted blues and reds originally. Some of the red color is still preserved.
This is a close up of the corner on the picture above...
This is the same corner again. See the face?
This is one of the few Mayan settlements that was built right along the coast
One of five entrances through the outer wall
On the ferry from Cozumel to the mainland
"Cozumel"
We saw my Young Women's president on the cruise!! We ended up hanging out with them quite a bit, and we had a great time together! We are so glad they happened to be on the same cruise with us.
I beat Colby in Chess for the first time (out of two, so we're tied!) He was humiliated, but got over it...
We found a mouse in our bedroom!!
Now we are in Belize...Time to go cave-tubing! You better belize it!
It was about a 1.5 mile hike to the put-in
At the entrance to the cave
This trip was unbelizable!!
It was about a 30 minute float through the cave. This is one spot where part of the cave collapsed, so you could see sunlight. There was not enough light for any of our other pictures to come out.
At the cave's exit
We saw this van with a BYUI sticker on it! The license plate cover says "Rexburg Auto" or something. Somebody must have bought this van in Rexburg and driven it to Belize...not a bad idea. Then, on the drive back to town, we saw a guy from the bus with a BYU shirt on!
Welcome to Roatan Island, Honduras!! The topography was a welcome sight, after the flatness of Mexico and Belize.
A lady from Wisconsin lives here and runs a bed and breakfast. She has been living in Honduras for 8 years and loves it!
The boardwalk out to where the kayaks were waiting. Mangroves everywhere!
One of the other couples with us were LDS, from Boise.
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