We're finally home! Matt and I went on a fabulous cruise this past week, and we're finally settling down and adjusting to reality again!
We went on a Caribbean cruise with Holland America. Just for future reference, the average age on these ships is about 100, so we were like toddlers...There were seriously like 10 couples under the age of 40 on this ship. We were lucky enough to make some friends around our age, and it made the week so much fun!
Dinner on our first night
Us on the top of the ship on the windiest night ever!
Our first port was Key West. We'd never been, and so we rented bikes and just rode all over the island, seeing everything! What a beautiful island! I was just glad to be in the warm sunshine!
Our second port was our favorite; Belize. We'd been there before, almost 5 years ago, and were way excited to go back! We booked an excursion through a local company, and as fate has it, the only other couple to book the same one was around our age! We ended up becoming great friends with them, and hung out with them a lot during our week. The excursion was doing a series of zip-lines through the jungle, repelling, and then underground cave tubing. It was by far our favorite excursion! The saddest part was that we took a disposable underwater camera, because I was afraid to take the nice one on a zip line, and when I went to develop the roll yesterday, only 2 pictures of the entire roll turned out! So basically, you'll need to picture us flying through the rainforest...I'm so bummed! We seriously took about a million great pictures with that camera!
Our third port was Guatemala. This port was the reason we chose the cruise. We had planned on taking an excursion up to Tikal (the biggest of the Mayan ruins) for the day. I've been before, but Matt didn't get a chance after the mission, so we were excited to go together. Then we found out that it would cost an extra $1000 for the tour, and Tikal was out! We figure that for that price we could take the fam down and spend a couple of days there, and really see the sights! We ended up hiring a local to take us up to some amazing waterfalls. So, so beautiful! I have one other disposable camera that we used that day, so hopefully I can post pictures of this place! There was a lot of great shopping, so we bought most of our souvineers here.
The last port was Costa Maya, Mexico. We met up with our friends and spend the day snorkeling, shopping, and laying on the beach! It was a perfect beach day! Did I mention that our sunscreen exploded on the plane ride??? Super fun. Basically we were pretty crispy after the beach day!
Matt and Londy decorating the tree!
I didn't realize until later that London's face was covered with the remnants of a red popsicle!
The entry
London was a lot of help this year; Beck had just woken up from his nap and just wanted to play with the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" sleigh ride thingy that plays the Chipmunks Christmas song OVER and OVER...Needless to say, it has been "missing" for several days now! He still doesn't understand that the candy canes on the tree aren't real, either. The poor kid takes a bite out of a different one everyday. Someday he'll learn!
Cammers and Londy making puppets.
Londy finally crashing!
Matt (well his arm) me, and York looking over the Black Friday ads
Dinner on our first night
We had 2 sea days, and made good use of them by playing trivia, reading, swimming, eating lots of yummy food, playing cards and Yahtzee, and doing anything that looked "active" on the daily activity list. We had the funnest time!
Then, true to tradition, my mom held her annual Halloween party! It's always so much fun to be there with lots of friends and family and to eat all of Jilly's fabulous food! 
