Back to the Future

The title says "back" because it's getting pretty close to a year ago that Chalise and I went on a cruise to the Caribbean.  The title says "future" because we will definitely go again sometime in the distant future when money grows on trees.  I don't remember any of the details - just be grateful that I can remember the names of the cities that we went to.  Besides Chalise's bout with food-born illness and my sinus infection it was super fun.  Our favorite activity was just laying there doing nothing and eating.  Here are some pictures for you all to remember our vacation by.

This may or may not be me by the ocean at Cozumel, Mexico.  We didn't pay for any shore excursions at this stop so we just found some really nice guy who drove us around to some cool places and talked to us about Cozumel.  It was a pretty organic traveling experience - as a side note organic food is totally trendy and not very cool but organic traveling is fun.

Chalise was super excited to see these peacocks on the beach.  It was a really interesting feature for sure.  Who just keeps their pet peacocks on the beach?

The beach was actually our last stop here.  Before this we went to some ruins but we weren't allowed to take pictures of them.  The hammocks were definitely relaxing.

This is when I hovered far above the ocean.

Between Cozumel and Roatan Island we went to Belize.  We went on an excursion to a private island which sounds way cooler than it is.  What they fail to tell you in the advertisement is that 4,000 of your fellow passengers are also going to that same private island and they are going to steal all the floaties and all of the beach chairs.  Despite my harsh language it was still way fun.

In Roatan again we just paid some guy to drive us somewhere cool for way cheaper than the cruise ship would have charged.  He took us to this place where you can play with birds and monkeys.  We walked into the first monkey cage and I thought they were gonna ease into familiarity with us.  Not so.  Next thing I knew something had jumped on my back from behind completely unawares.   Chalise loves animals and as expected thought it was the greatest thing ever even though this monkey is climbing into her ear (it appears that way).

This attempts to give you a view of Roatan Island.  We thought this place was the prettiest overall - it was really green and had some pink flowers everywhere.  Looking at this picture now all I can think is how gigantic those ships are - it looks like it's about to swallow the island whole.

We fell prey to the overpriced coconut stand.  It is pretty cool how they chop it up so quick and it tastes pretty decent.

Our last stop was the Bahamas.  This is us with our snorkel gear on, getting ready to go onto the sandbar that they call stingray city.  Soon after this picture we found out that none of the cool kids were wearing the nerdy vests...  Come to think of it not even the weird kids were wearing them.  We were the only ones!  So we took them off and pet the rays unhindered by safety equipment.

Here you can see some of the rays (they are the ones under the water).  This was probably one of my favorite parts of the whole trip.

At our last port we each got to have our picture taken in front of the store that we thought best described us;)

Merry Christmas!