That’s right, La Wife and I!!!

I know that none of you missed me, but La Wife is swell and everyone should miss her when she is not around!
Our trip was safe, fun and more expensive then we should talk about in a public forum being that we owe people money who I know for a fact used to look at my blog’s once a pone a time.
I know that no one wants to hear about other peoples vacations, and worse yet to be forced to look at the pictures they took on said vacation.
To bad, read about it or not this is easer then telling each of you one at a time.
I will be kind and post the pictures in the Picture Pages section.

Day one:
We drive down to Miami in our rental car, that just happened to be a 2010 Ford Mustang .
Gotta love free upgrades!
We get on the boat and, well yea that’s about it.
You all know the basics, we ran around looking at things and eat 5 times before dinner.
At dinner thought we went and meet our dinner companions for the trip.
They where Mennonites and all I can tell you is that they don’t believe in war and that they are a more modern faction of the Amish?

Day two:
This day was at sea, we slept, eat, walked around and repeated.
This was La Wife’s birthday so we ended up going to the private dinner.
It was OK … the food wasn’t so great … La Wife got a little sick so we called it a night.

Day Three:
Mexico, again … third times the charm?
IT WAS!
We went and got into some Jeeps and drove off to some caves.
We then went swimming in said caves and snorkeling around in them too.
We left there and went to a pretty beach where we got to partake in an authentic Mexican buffet … with real authentic spaghetti on it?
We then bounced back to the ship … and went right to sleep.
Mental Note: Cave Excursions = Nap Needed!

Day Four:
Again at sea.
Really didn’t do a lot other the sleep and eat … with many repeats!

Day Five:
Grand Cayman!
We took a tour to the Sea Turtle farm.
This was a cool, and great place.
They are attempting to help repopulate the Green Sea Turtle by breeding and raising them.
They also sell turtle soup … needless to say La Wife and I did not partake …
We then got to go over to a little beach and spent about an hour in the ocean.
Life was good!
Once we left there we headed back to the market section at the port and went gem shopping.
While we where there and trying to figure out what in the world we where doing, as the local merchants tried to figure out how many dollar signs they saw above our head, the ships sales manager came in and remembered me from the night before and decided to help us out.
Long story short, he asked what we wanted, how much we wanted to spend, and then he handed us what we wanted frustrating the sales people.
We where happy though and that’s all that matters … right?

Day Six:
Jamaica … yea little more story here …
We took the Dunn River Falls tour and we got to climb the river.
See the pictures over in Picture Pages if you want to see what it looks like.
I can’t say enough about how cool that was … not just the water either!
We left there and went over to the Dolphin Cove to go swimming.
While there we got to see a bunch of dolphins … again see Picture Pages.
After that we went into town and needed to find another piece for La Wife’s costume.
So, of course it wasn’t a normal thing to find so we had to go off the tourist section and into town.
This is when things got strange.
I am not trying to brag, but I am 6’1 and am used to being left alone.
I work in a prison and am also used to being stared down and threatened.
That being said, I was not feeling so comfortable walking down these streets!
Some guy came up and ‘escorted’ us along our way all the while trying to convince us to go down a side street to the open market.
When he finally got the point we had no interest in going he walked all the way back with us and then asked for a tip for keeping us safe along our walk.
During his escorting I was approached 3 times with the offer of the Great Bob Marley’s favorite cigarettes.
While also having a strange man try to sell us gold form his pocket.
Yeppers, I learned my lesson … next time take old people with me I can throw at these people while I run in the opposite direction!
We got what we needed, left and breather a sigh of relief as we sat down for more cruise food, and a nap.

Day Seven:
Again at Sea.
We attended a juggling class … yea I got a few pictures of that too.
We went to the casino and for the first time ever … I walked away with more then I took to the table!
$5 bucks more people!!!
We also got all dressed up in out costumes and went down to the Halloween Party!
La Wife got so many complements and people stopped her to take pictures with her all over the place.
We didn’t even make it into the top 10 of costumes but I still think the got the crew and guests vote from all the smiles.

Day Eight:
We disembark, drive home and arrived to a fully cooked dinner that my Mother-In-Law and Sister-In-Law had cooked for us.
They had watched over Wonder Dog for us during our trip and once again, thanks just does not cut it!

Sunday, or Day Nine … We tried to order room service, only to be disappointed that my mother refused to bring me said room service.
That will be remembered old woman … how many more years until I Can put you in a home?

That’s that.
We had a blast!

Next week I will address some giant political topic that will make all of you take note and wonder, or not …