Our Cruise and Remainder of April 2010

We finally got to go on our "honeymoon" this past April. We took a five day cruise to the carribbean on the carnival ecstasy. This was my second cruise and before this cruise I thought I knew evertyhing about cruises until I found out that one of the worst things I ever thought could happen to me happened on this trip. The start of the trip was great we were enjoying ourselves, eating a ton of food, relaxing by the pool with our drinks and just enjoying the peace. The pictures are in backwards order and some of them we took and some of them the cruise took and we bought. The frist day at sea was when we pulled out which was mostly just safety briefings and sail away parties followed by dinner. Destiny and Joey went on the cruise with us and the first night Destiny and I felt nauseated so we all went to sleep pretty early. When we woke up the next day it was pretty gloomy outside and we thought the day was going to be a dud until the sun came out:):) Destiny and I pretty much spent most of our day laying out by the pool with our coconut drinks enjoying the wonderful breeze and the island music. Later that night wasw formal night which we all had a blast dressing up for. The cruise takes so many wonderful pictures of you that night that it's hard to decide which ones you really want to buy and which ones you're going to leave behind. That night we gambled a little bit and I actually played craps for the first time and won some money and then we all went to a adult comedy show later. The next day we were up extremely early getting ready to get off the boat for Progresso, Mexico our first port. Progresso was an adventure in itself. When we got off the buses that bring you to the actual port we heard of an adventure that you can go on where all drinks, food and jetskis, massages on the beach and everything was included. Well we decided to take up the people on this offer and go along with it. We were so nervous at first because some guy took our cash and then walked off and told us to meet him back there in an hour and we would leave for the resort. Well we kept thinking we had just gotten scammed but we didn't and they actually came back to get us. We got on the bus with these CRAZY people that were on the other carnival boat. They were very interesting and amusing with the things that were coming out of their mouths. When we got to the resort it was beautiful with the pretty pool and beach however there were no jetskis which is what we REALLY wanted to do and the whole reason that we paid to go on this excursion. Well come to find out, they weren't running during this time of the eyar is what they told us so we were pretty disappojnted. However, we still had a great time and ate and drank a whole bunch and had a ton of fun swimming around in the pool. When we got back we shopped around for a little while and then got back on the boat to head for dinner time. One funny story about dinner is that we kept saying the waiter had a crush on Destiny. We said this because she would always get special appetizers and desserts that she didn't even order meanwhile none of us did haha. He would always refill her drink and leave all of ours un filled it was pretty funny and Joey was cracking me up with his thoughts on the whole thing. That next day was Cozumel where we swam with the dolphins at Chankannab. I have been where you get to touch the dolphins and hug them before but nothing like what we got to do this time. This was the favorite part of the whole trip for both Chantz and I and is something we will both remember for the rest of our lives. We actually got pushed up in the air by our feet where we were floating on the water and we got to hold on to their fins and be carried across the water on them which was also amazing. The other awesome thing about this day was we got to run into my Uncle and his friend that has known me since I was a baby here. They were on another cruise the same time we were but we couldn't find them in Progresso but somewhow they made it to here and we got to spend some time with both of them catching and throwing all these beautiful fish at each other in the crystal clear water. I could have just stayed in that beach forever it was so beautiful and the water was go gorgeous. We met back up with Destiny and joey at Senor Frogs later that day to eat and have some drinks. Then it was time to get back on the boat and back to dinner again. This night we were so worn out from the day that we actually just relaxed and went to the back of the boat and laid under the sky looking at the stars together so it was very nice to just have some actual time to just not have five million things to do and just be able to enjoy spending some time together. That next day was our last day at sea and this was when the wrost imaginiable thing happened to me. We got up and went and ate some breakfast and laid out by the pool relaxing some more before we were going to be home. Well the cruise had misplaced one of our pictures from formal night so we decided to go and ask them to look it up and reprint if or us. Just as we're standing there and I'm confirming which one Chantz says why does it feel like we're leaning to one side?? I kept telling him don't worry about it you're just imagining it when all of the sudden the picture sign comes fliying down from the other side of the boat almost hitting me. Chantz grabbed me and we ran for the other side o the boat. We were standing behind a column that was there for decoration and watching as the other side of the boat was in the water and the water was coming right up to the glass on that side of the ship. All we c and things falling all over the place. We really thought we were going to flip over and I honestly had no idea what to do and thank goodness the boat started leaning back to the normal way otherwise we probably would've jumped. We were so glad that next morning to be home after this crazy occurance happened on the last day. They said it was to avoid a buoy that was int eh ocean it's just so hard for me to actually believe that they didn't see until last minute that they needed to turn that hard when there were NO waves that day in the ocean it was like we were sailing on glass. During this time we were on vacation Aggie was getting trained at Mans Best Friend. Let me tell you this place did an amazing job with him too. We went to pick him up the first weekend in May and it was like we saw a different dog. Not to little after that though Dalton got pneumonia which was the worst thing ever. I was scared to death that something was going to happen to him. Luckily, he didn't have to get hospitalized and was better just in time for his birthday and birthday party that we threw him. I'll be posting those pictures along with other fun in the sun pictures from May and June hopefully this week or next.