What fun we had...we took a 7 day cruise to Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and Cozumel on a brand new ship fully designed to entertain kids! The waterpark was awesome and the boys thought the skywalk was super cool! We played more mini golf in the last 7 days then we have played our whole lives and stuffed ourselves silly ;)
In Jamaica we went to a beautiful gated beach, "Doctor's Cave", where the kids jumped on a water trampoline and all of the boys got to snorkel. Matt has officially fallen in love with snorkeling, which isn't a big surprise considering his obsession with sharks and dolphins ;) The "biggest boys" (aka...Papa and Craig) had an absolute blast and even convinced Gaga to do it! Better her than me!!! We had perfect weather and fully enjoyed our five ours on what is considered one of the most beautiful beaches in Jamaica!!!
The Cayman Islands were so much fun! This is one of our favorite places to go and it didn't disappoint us this time ;) Luke is obsessed with pirates and can't miss an episode of "Jake and the Neverland Pirates" so we took the pirate ship (2'nd and 3'rd time for all of us except our resident pirate...Luke!) and the boys were in heaven! The coolest part was when our pirate ship "shot a cannon at our cruise ship"!!! Brian and Matt were finally old enough to fully enjoy it and Luke was downright giddy that the ship was actually named the "JollyRoger". The boys happily took their pirate oaths to completely disobey their parents, never bathe or brush their teeth and eat all of the junk they want! Next up...swabbing the decks or Mom's go overboard! Luckily my three got down and scrubbed ;) After all of their duties were done...the ship dropped anchor and we all got to either walk the plank or jump off the top deck of the ship into the gorgeous waters of the Caymans! Gaga stayed onboard as family photographer due to a headache from the diesel smell of the ship (we literally got the full pirate experience!) while the rest of us headed in! After returning to land, we shopped for our own pirate weapons and then headed to our very favorite restaurant in the world...Margaritaville! While you can find these all over and they are all usually fun, the one in Grand Cayman is extra fun as it has a pool and waterslide right smack in the middle of the restaurant!!!! The tables surround the fun and we spent the rest of the afternoon hanging out there letting the kids enjoy the slide!
Cozumel was our last stop and while we have all (again except Luke) been there multiple times in the past and love it, this time was extra special as we swam with the dolphins! We went to this amazing facility called Dolphinaris where we all got to fully interact with and go for a ride on dolphins!!! It was truly the coolest thing we have ever done! Brian and Matt full on rode completely themselves while Luke rode on my back like we were Diego and Alicia!!! We all got to hold, kiss and shake hands with the dolphins and even made them talk! After our dolphin experience, we had lunch and played on the private beach (seriously private....we were the only ones there!!!) complete with a protected lagoon full of tropical fish and stingrays! All the boys enjoyed snorkeling and finding all 10 stingrays while me and Mom enjoyed the private beach! It was a perfect ending to our trip and we headed back to the ship making a few pitstops in the shops along the way for treasures ;)
All in all...we had an absolutely amazing seven days! After our last few months, it was a well deserved vacation that we have soooooooo many pictures to remember it with! Luke is already asking when we can go back!!!
