Cruisin'

Howdy Y'all! I'm back from sailing the great ocean blue and have fun pictures to share with you. 

Our cruise left out of New Orleans on Monday afternoon. We got to Nola a few hours early and decided to hit up the Cafe Du Monde for some delicious beignets! 

 

Yum!

Day 1 was a fun day at sea so Clay and I just laid out of the deck soaking up the sun and watched our fellow cruises compete in a variety of embarrassing competitions.  

 

The wind was making my hat look crazy. Clay's face was making him look crazy...

Our first port was Progresso, Mexico. It's a new port-of-call and really the only thing to do there is a tour of Mayan ruins. We didn't go to the ruins and instead opted for lunch on the beach. Well...the beach wasn't the most pleasant experience so we ended up eating on the boat and enjoyed a nice day reading under an umbrella. 

This is how clay felt about our "lunch" on the beach

Fun drinks on the ship make everything better! This one was actually created by one of the cruisers in a mixology contest

Our next port was Cozumel. Clay and I have both been to Cozumel several times so we decided to go on a different kind of excursion. We did a Mexican cooking class and it was fantastic! We made pan seared fish, shrimp sopas, and fried plantains with chocolate tequila sauce. Yum! Our chef was great, there was an open bar, and we had a group of crazy middle-aged Australian women in our group. It was a blast! We look 109 pictures (don't worry I wont put all of them up!). 

Chef hats make everything better

Our beautiful Plantains!

I'm concentrating on splitting our veggies evenly.

Skrimpz

This was chef Oscar. I think his expression sums up his personality pretty well

My beautiful Shrimp creation! Decorating the plates was my favorite part

Clay and I with our chefs

Enjoying the fruits of our labor

 

Our final day was another day at sea. We enjoyed the sun, good food, and good company. 

One of the few nice pictures we have of the two of us. Traveling with just two people makes picture taking difficult

Our cute puppy towel animal. I pretended like it was Reggie.

This is a shot of the love and marriage game show. This older couple on the left were the cutest/funniest people ever. When asked what holiday J.O. (the man) would use to describe his love life. J.O. replied "Memorial day because we pay our respects to the dead." Hilarious.

This was our table at dinner every night. We meet some wonderful and hilarious people!

Yay for graduation vacation! 

P.S. I've been organizing all of my pictures (going back to 2005!) so be on the look out for a fabulous blast from the past post!