(sorry it took so long to post this .... got busy having fun with the family and then work hit me)
We had a time change overnight on the boat to sink us up with time in the countries, so we actually got an extra hour of sleep on the boat. Hurray!!! Now, Ken, the over-the-top-lets-see-how-drunk-we-can-get-the-entire-boat, cruise director did remind us on numerous occasions the night before that we should not do the sensible thing and actually get rest with the extra hour, but instead we should party even longer! Oh yeah, baby. So, since it is so apparent that Ken totally has our best interests at hand, we decided to ..... do the opposite and actually go to bed at a decent time.
The result, I woke up an hour early - lol. But at least the weight room room was less full. I guess all that partying did me some good - haha. So another beautiful morning in the Caribbean. I could get used to this working out and seeing a whole different country coming into view every morning.
Now, Roatan. What a beautiful island off the coast of Honduras. We were actually a little discouraged with the Costa Maya stop, but Roatan completely flipped us. This little island, looks like, from the boat, a tropical paradise. There are green hills, the port is really cute (see pictures below) and the water is once again beautiful.
Our planned excursion in Roatan was to go zip-lining on the canopy top of the jungle. When we got to the booth, and because we are really wanting some beach time after seeing such beautiful water, we upgraded the package and got a zipline/beach combo excursion. We were not disappointed with either. The zip lines were awesome!!!! My pictures won't do it justice. Basically, once they got us all geared up. We loaded up on a truck, did some off-roading up some pretty steep hills. When the truck couldn't go any further, we got out and hiked up some more through the jungle. The trees were beautiful and there were huge iguanas all over the place ... ranging from 12 to 18 inches long. We finally got to the first zip platform (after climbing some more stairs up the tree), they gave us the run down and Kelly was on her way. Then I followed. Some zips were short, some were long. Some really high, some low. All of them were over this lush jungle. It was awesome. I got some quick video that I will try and post too. Also, our guides were really good. They did a good job of keeping us safe, letting us know what to expect and helping us out when we needed it (like when Kelly didn't make it to the end of one of the lines :) ).
We finished the zips and headed to the beach. After a little confusion on if we were allowed into this one beach park, we finally got to the beach on our cruise and this beach, Tabyana Beach, was phenomenal! White sands, crystal clear water, good food, chairs. Stick us in those chairs with a book to read and we are livin' the dream, baby! We had a great time sippin on pina coladas and wading in water, chillin on the sand, and we even stumbled across this huge beautiful star fish that was at least 12 inches across.
After a couple of hours at the beach, we headed back to the ship, do some souvenir shopping at the port and then got back on board with plenty of time to spare. Then we listened to some of the Caribbean music from the band on the boat called Flex. Another relaxing night of fine dining and enjoying the fresh sea air and then we were off to bed. Tomorrow's port of call is in Belize City. We have to start our excursion early, so we turned in early, even with the voice of Ken in our head reminding us to party party party (aka, buy our drinks, buy 0ur drinks, buyour drinks).
I want to take a quick aside and mention one thing about this cruise that we were surprisingly pleased with. When we first got on the boat we noticed the ship had its own photography crew, and on day 2 we noticed the photo area, where the pictures from the day before were all available for sale at a fairly high price. We kinda laughed about it, but also went ahead and posed for some pictures with backdrops behind us throughout the cruise. It was kinda fun doing all these photo shoots :) The phot staff were awesome. They were everywhere all the time. The staff looked like one of the smaller crews on the boat - maybe 10 of them - and they took pictures, lugged their own equipment around, set it up broke it down, they had to work the area where they sold the pictures, they were on the boat at the parties, on the boat in the main atrium for the backdrop photos, and they were off the boat taking pictures in the port. And they always had great attitudes. AND the pictures that we took were REALLY REALLY good. So good, in fact, that we decided to get a couple of the pics and we are so pleased with them. I am gonna try and get those pics posted, too, at the end of this trip blog.
Next up - Belize!!
The port from our ship
Ziplining
Chillin on the boat
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