Sunday, January 18, 2009

Todd and Amy's Caribbean Cruise

This past week we sailed on Royal Caribbean's Liberty Of the Seas cruise ship and had a wonderful time. The ship is supposed to be the largest of all the ships currently in the ocean and it was absolutely amazing inside. It even had an ice rink on board. I don't think we saw the entire ship it was so big. Our first stop was Labadee, Haiti. This is a private island owned by Royal Caribbean and you can only visit here if you are on a RC cruise. I was amazed at the mountains and how green and beautiful it was.We took a hike up to a place called Dragon's breath. Along the way were breathtaking views.This is me in Jamaica. There wasn't a lot to do there because we didn't travel to the "nice" side of the island. But we made it to Jimmy Buffetts Margaritaville for drinks on the water!

Grand Caymen was a bit cloudy the day we arrived but it was still nice weather. When we got there we took a historic tour of the city and found it to be full of banks! Grand Caymen is the place where mega rich people go and store all of their money. The hotels are ritzy and real estate is way out of control. There was tons of shopping, rum and pirate stuff everywhere!
We stopped at a little place to try some rum cake just before we ended up in Hell. Yes that's right, the town of Hell is in Grand Caymen.
We sent home love from Hell. This is me at the Post Office. Next we stopped at Cozumel. We went through the city and ate at the same little restaurant we ate at years ago when we went to Playa Del Carmen. The city hasn't changed and I still love it. I'd say Cozumel is one of my favorite places . . . ever.
Me and my consultants had a great time at Carlos and Charlies downtown.The last night of our cruise we had a costume party. Todd and I dressed up as Sony and Cher. Yes I sang . . . couldn't help myself.One of the funnest things Todd did was play on the Flowrider on the upper deck of the cruise ship. It's an enormous water toy that shoots water out at you so that you can try to surf. Todd spent a lot of time on it and eventually mastered barrell rolls and stood up! I only tried it once because my swimsuit bottoms kept coming off. Not fun . . . but it was a riot watching everyone else lose their shorts!
One of my favorite parts is formal night. Todd hates it but I love getting dressed up for the photos. Since this cruise was part of Heritage Makers Top Achievers Club we have a LOT of photos to take with each other. Todd endures the pain every year.
Formal night in the dining room.
My new favorite picture of Todd and I. Our first formal night photo.

We had tons of fun and had some great business conversations with my team. I can't wait to go back next year after I've practiced my karaoke and can run with the pro's from my group!

See more of our cruise photos on my Facebook profile at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=15644&l=fffaf&id=1068117861

4 comments:

Dan, Country, Kaitlyn & Ashlyn said...

LOL, your pics look very familiar!?!?
I think we went on the same cruise girl!! except we went on Freedom ship and sailed 1/4-1/11. Did you port out of Miami?? we went to exact same spots.

I love your pics, especially the formal one. Our formal ones were SOOO cheesy that I didn't even purchase them!
welcome back to the frigid cold!! (well I'm in LA this week, out of the cold hehe)

Michelle said...

It looks like you had a great time on your cruise. Just 2 questions..

1. Is that a new bag?
2. What Cher song did you sing?

xoxo

chell
PS - Todd looks really handsome all spiffied up!

Nikki said...

You have a killer life! How fun it would be to go everywhere you do! You both look fabulous and what beautiful places see! Love ya girl!

Bateman's Family Blog said...

We went to HELL too and they sent us back to Salt Lake City! Good thing it was Cayman Islands and not the real thing!! Nice Pics, thanks for sharing!

Do you get suckered into Dunn's River Falls too? Careful! the trail is slippery so everyone has got to hold hands..!