It's Back To The Real World

Well, I made it back from vacation and all in one piece. We had such a great time I'm having a hard time adjusting to reality again.

We arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico on our first stop on the cruise. We got there in the early evening so we didn't have much time for exploring before it got dark. There wasn't too much to do there but it was interesting to see it.

The next port was on the island of St. Martin. This island is half Dutch and half French. It was beautiful there as are all the islands unless you stray off the touristy places because there is a lot of poverty. We did a tour of the whole island and ended up on Orient Beach on the French side. The beaches there are clothing optional and needless to say, all the people who were walking around topless (and in the case of the men, bottomless too) should have put some clothes on. They were all older and wrinkly...all over, if you know what I mean. We arrived at the beach without enough time to go parasailing. It looked like so much fun though. Our cruise line had parasailing tours you could sign up for but they filled up so fast, we didn't get one. Oh well.

The next port was St. Thomas and I think it was probably the prettiest island. We went snorkling at Sapphire Beach and the water was incredibly clear. I had an up close and personal encounter with a barracuda but I guess he wasn't hungry right then, thank goodness. There are tons of fish there so the snorkling was great. We tried again to go parasailing but they had a problem with one of the boats so we were shut out again. I guess it wasn't meant to be. I wasn't really that disappointed because there was so much else to do.

We arrived back in Miami on Sunday morning and went and hung out at South Beach before going to the airport. I can't wait to take another cruise. This was our second (both on Carnival Cruise Line) and they are just so much fun. There are tons of activities on the ship and I think we drank more in one week than we usually do in a year! The above picture is of me and my husband in St. Thomas. It isn't one of my better pictures though because the wind was blowing my hair into a rats nest but I said I'd post a pic so...there you go.