Monday, November 09, 2009

Back on Dry Land

Back in the great state of Texas after a 7-day Cruise. We partook in the High Seas Rally, in the Western Caribbean, with 12 of our friends from AEHOG.. This is a 7 day cruise onboard the Royal Caribbean Freedom of the Seas. The rally has a completely separate agenda than the cruise although we were able to participate in any cruise activities we wanted to.

We arrived in Coco Beach Florida on Saturday in plenty of time to check out the beach and to attend the pre-cruise party, which had lots of great costumes, since it was Halloween night. Sunday we boarded the ship and sailed off on a big blue watery road. Monday was a full sailing day and we familiarized our selves with the ship, the places to eat (lots of them!) and the rally activities. Monday was fairly relaxed tih time spent on the deck relaxing.

After that we had stops at Labadee, Haiti; Ocho Rios, Jamaica; Georgetown, Grand Cayman; and finally Cozumel, Mexico. On Saturday we had a full sailing day. Friday and Saturday were a bit rough and wet, as we were about a day to a day and a half ahead of of a developing Hurricane Ida.

By Sunday it was time to come home. We had a lengthy day in the airport just waiting for our scheduled flight but got to hang out with our friends for most of the day as we all had different flight times for the most part. We got home late Sunday after an wonderful and memorable vacation.

I took over 1300 photos, so it will take a while to process and go through them all. There are plenty of duplicates, and bad shots (out of focus, no flash, etc) but will get some posted later this week to try to capture the essence of our trip.

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