Finally...

I finally got around to blogging about our cruise that we took 2 MONTHS AGO! Better late than never.

Mike and Jon

The first day of vacation the boys had a lot of fun!

It started off with them playing some basketball.

Then they played some ping pong.
They posed for silly pictures.

Oh yeah...they won $500 playing Bingo.

Then they did some dancing. (Believe him now Davey Family?!)

Those two sure enjoyed each other's company!

May 24th - Welcome Aboard!

Here we are waiting for the shuttle to take us to the Port of Miami. We were all ready to get on the ship to start our vacation.

Jon and Mike enjoying the view of the pool.

Us girls excited to be on vacation.

May 25th - Key West, Florida

Our first stop on the cruise was Key West. It is such a nice little town. It reminds me a lot of Catalina. Jon, Kim, Mike and I decided to just walk around and do a little shopping. Here's a picture of Mike and I and the ship.

Of course we had to take all sorts of tourist shots.

This picture was Mike's creation and still cracks me up!!

May 26th - Nassau, Bahamas

In Nassau we signed up to go snorkeling with the stingrays. The excursion was pretty cool because it took you off to an island named Blackbeard's Cay. This was the one thing Mike wanted to do on the cruise so that's what we did. I was not a fan. The stingrays freaked me out and I couldn't get the hang of the snorkel but Mike loved it!! Here we are waiting to leave on our excursion.

Jon and Mike on our way to Blackbeard's Cay.

Blackbeard's Cay.Here's the whole group waiting to get in the stingray area. The life vest had the most annoying butt strap that would dangle and hit your leg. FREAKED ME OUT!! (I know I'm a baby!)

The handlers actually let you feed the stingrays. See how everyone is in the water and I'm standing ready to run :)

I learned that stingrays love Mike because at any given time there were 2-3 of them swimming around him. Here's Mike holding one of the pregnant stingrays.

This was my favorite part of the shore excursion! The part of the beach without the stingrays :) We had fun searching for sand dollars. (That's why I'm looking down)

May 27th - Coco Cay, Bahamas

Coco Cay is Royal Caribbeans private island. They had mats you could rent for the day so Mike and I just floated around in the crystal blue waters. It was such a relaxing day! Unfortunately no pictures of paradise were taken. Sorry!

That night we went to karaoke where Kim and I actually got up and did a NSYNC song! No pictures of that just a video and I'll spare myself the embarrassment of posting that.

May 28th - Miami, Florida

After docking in Miami we decided to take a shore excursion to Gator Park. Mike was really excited because on his mission they were not allowed on the airboats. Our tour started on a tour through the Everglades. We had the craziest airboat guide who was seriously like Ace Ventura. He would call the alligators by name and would have all sorts of stories about the other animals. He also stop the boat out in the middle of the nowhere and let you get out. So we can say that we've stood in the Everglades. The boat tour was awesome!

Our guide with one of his many friends.

After the ride in the airboat we got to see an animal show were the handler did a bunch of tricks with the alligator.

After everything you had the option to take a picture with an alligator and Mike wasn't going to pass it up. So here's our family with Mike's perfect pet :)