Cruise

We are finally home from out 2 week vacation! We went on a Royal Caribbean cruise the first week and spent Christmas at my parent's house for the second week. The vacation was awesome, but its also nice to be back home.
So, Fri Dec 12 we left Reno airport for Fort Lauderdale airport. The flight was extremely long, 3 different planes. But we did meet up with the rest of Kade's family in the Salt Lake airport. Friday night we spent the night at a hotel in Fort Lauderdale. Because we had been on a plane for hours we were starving. Sadly the fast food restaurants across the street from the hotel only had their drive thru's open. But someone managed to get some burgers, and we ordered pizza.
Saturday morning we headed to the port to get on the cruise ship. We were going to be on the ship, Independence of the Seas, for 8 days (Dec 13-21). The ship we were one was a new ship with tons of stuff to do on board. It took a while to figure out where everything was. On board there were three pools, about a million hot tubs, a flowrider, rock climbing wall, ice-skating rink, sports court, and tons of other stuff. The food was delicious, too. Our honeymoon cruise on Carnival wasn't nearly as good. For dinner I had some incredible seafood dishes (my favorite!) and heavenly chocolate desserts.
The first full day of the cruise was at sea so we got to do all the stuff on board. The third day we landed in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Kade and I had went to San Juan on our last cruise and wasn't impressed. But this time we didn't take the taxi tour, instead we walked to the awesome fort and castle and took the tours. Much better. For the rest of San Juan's pics --> click here!
The next day we were in St. Thomas. We took a taxi to Magan's Bay and swam in the ocean. The beach was awesome, great waves, just a little too crowded. This picture was on the road during the taxi ride.For the rest of St. Thomas pics--> click here!
The next stop was St. Maarten. We also went to the beach here and did some shopping. Kade and I rented the Jet Ski for a half hour. It was fun, but I got scared of falling off a few times... For the rest of St. Maarten pics --> click here!
After St. Maarten we had another day at sea and then we landed in Labadee, Haiti. Royal Caribbean owned the island, actually it was a peninsula on the island, so it was really nice. The beaches were kind of rocky though. The shops there were insane. You would walk through them and have a million people telling you to look at their stuff. We got a pretty cool picture of all the paintings against the hill.For the rest of Haiti pics--> click here!
After Haiti, we had a day at sea again. This day at sea was pretty fun; there were different sport contests going on all day. Like best flowrider, basketball, dodgeball, and volleyball tournaments. I entered the Rock climbing speed contest with Kade, Brandon, Brian, and James. And I got gold! lolOk, so guys and girls were separated. And there were only three girls in the competition...
The next day were landed back in Fort Lauderdale and headed to the airport for our flight to WV.....
For the rest of the pics from the boat--> click here!