Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Sister Cruise

Who works harder than anyone with very little breaks or time to themselves?.........Moms.  My sisters and i decided we needed a fun vacation to get away from it all and just be GIRLS!  So my sisters, Mom and Aunt  jumped on a boat headed to Mexico! Our cruise was on the Carnival Elation leaving out of New Orleans.
My adventure started before even getting on the ship.  I flew standby hoping to save a little money, unlike everyone else who bought tickets for $450.  There is always a risk when flying standby, but with 7 flights leaving out of Houston (my hub) i figured my chances looked pretty good.  I made it to Houston just fine and even had a for sure ticket in my hand.....well, the flight ended up getting canceled so imediately all of the other flights going to New Orleans filled up.  My only option was to rent a car and drive 5 and a half hours to N.O by myself.  It really wasn't too bad and i ended up getting to the hotel the same time as everyone else. (They left SLC about 9 hrs after i did). ha ha?



Our first stop was Progreso Mexico.  We went to Chichinitza and saw the myan ruins. Pretty amazing!







The 3rd day we stopped in Cozumel.  Our excursion was the ATV beach adventure!  We rode around on a dusty, rocky, wet trail for a couple of hours.  Then went to the beach where we snorkeled and just relaxed for a while.  



I love this picture of Aunt Carma!  She won $2,000 in the casino playing a .25 poker machine!  I've never seen anyone so excited!


Well, she was pretty excited to steal a kiss from our waiters at dinner :)  We had a lot of fun flirting with them, especially Carma our only single gal! 


We tried frog legs one night.  Yumm! they kind of taste like chicken :)





We had a lot of fun being nerdy and just doing whatever we wanted!  I tried not to post the crazy pics to spare all of you what we are really like. ha ha
 My roomy Tara!   When we got to our room the first day our beds were pushed together and that night we got a towel on our bed folded in the shape of a heart :)  there's no one i would've rather spooned with. ha ha



I had such a blast with my family! I'm so lucky to have 3 sisters who are my best friends!  And i'm glad Mom and Carma were able to join us!  the week just went by way too fast.


Kaitlyn at the Beach at Bear Lake

Lake Powell