Wowee! Mike and I had an amazing time on our cruise last week! Where to start?

There was lots of food! During the day we ate up on deck in the cafeteria/buffet. And Mike was sure to get his fill of chocolate milk.

Every evening we ate in the formal dining room (meaning full silverware settings and the waiter putting the napkin in your lap) and we had beautiful food! Just gorgeous! Here are just a few of my favorite presentations...

a couple different fruit plate variations

Mike's citrus duck appetizer

A smoked salmon, asparagus, tomato creationI could go on. I did forewarn our table mates (two other way fun couples) that I would be dorky and take pictures of the food through out the week, including their's.

I ate escargot! It was actually really good! It was a dish of 5 little snail meats drowning in butter and garlic. Like little mushrooms. Tasty! On the topic of tasty dishes, we looked pretty good on formal night! What snazzy folk!

On formal night we noticed another young couple where the girl had sleeves on her dress. We introduced ourselves and sure enough, they were LDS! Ha, I knew it! We hung out with Zac and Beth every day and had a great time together! Hooray for new friends!! Thanks you two!Everyone else on the boat was so friendly too! The two other couples we sat with at dinner (assigned seating) were awesome! A riot every night! The crew was amazing too. I'd say 90% of the workers were foreigners. Australia, Peru, Phillipines, Italy, you name it. We made friends with a girl who ran one of the shops. Volha from Belarus. What a beautiful name! We visited her every day and she gave us key chains on our last visit. How sweet! Oh yeah, we did get off the boat too. This is the boat docked in Progreso, Mexico.

In Progreso we got to see the ruins of Chichen Itza. People aren't allowed to climb up the steps anymore, but it was still amazing to see!

We also went to Cozumel, Mexico, which is a jewelry shopping mecca. We window shopped (since we didn't have a couple thousand to burn)(on jewelry OR amazingly gorgeous Persian rugs that I was absolutely drooling over) and enjoyed looking at the beach. Unfortunately, it was too chilly for swimming.

That was the only sad thing about the trip. That it was warm, but it was never hot swimming weather. But it sure beat the snow. One day we went up to the upper deck of the boat to go miniature golfing, but it was too windy that the balls wouldn't stay in place. It was quite comical.

Yeah, rough life. They had all sorts of stuff on that boat! We went to an art auction, to shows in the evening, watched an ice sculpture carving, went to a Newlywed gameshow. Hilarious! And the contestants who won the game and everyone's standing ovation was a couple who'd been married for 61 years! There was even an arcade! What more does a boy at heart need?

But Mike's favorite place on the boat was the window seat in our room. The room was actually more spacious than I'd anticipated and was really nicely done.

It was a lovely 5 days, but we were happy to see our kids again!! A HUGE thanks to Curtis and Kristi for watching them! Like really HUGE! We finally made home last night after 2 days of driving, and you know, I'd do it again. But man, it is great to be home!