Honduras and The Grand Caymans

Our next day was a split day for us; that is Theresa went zip lining and I stayed on and near the ship in the port. My hip was absolutely shot and I was barely able to walk. It did me lots of good to rest for the day. Theresa had tons of fun on the zip lines and I bought some pretty jewelry for myself and a tee shirt for dad.

This is the Carnival owned shopping village in the port of Roatan, an island belonging to Honduras

A view of the ship through the foliage on Roatan.

Sunrise arriving at Roatan.

Theresa is all decked out for her zip line adventure.

This is one of the longest zip lines in the Americas.

Theresa and I back on the ship on a very windy day.

 We found some kind of 'towel' animal on our bed every day after our steward made up our room.  So fun!

Another night on the ship and arrival in the Grand Caymans the next morning.

Heading out to Sting Ray Bay for some snorkeling and swimming with the Rays.

 Oh this old laldy still loves snorkeling.  I brought up a big Conch shell, live!

 

This is one of the Rays, not a sting Ray.  Theresa got brave and actually kissed one of the Sting Rays, ugh!

 This is an area over some coral where we were taken to snorkel.  Beautiful and so much FUN!

Excuse the cleavage, but oh what fun I had.

 On our last formal dinner the ladies at our table dared me to try the frog legs, so I did.  I'm sure it would have been very good if it wasn't half raw.

 Theresa is resting up after our formal dinner, then we went up top to watch the movie on the jumbo screen, but about half an hour into the movie it started to rain.  We were both glad to go back to the room and SLEEP.

After a full day on the ship, we arrived early the next morning in the port of Miami.  Here we are all packed up, sadly, and ready to leave the ship.  We flew directly home the same day.  What a lot of fun Theresa and I had spending the week together.  We both decided the best day was the day on Grand Cayman.

CRUISE CONTINUED - MY COMPUTER IS BACK!

My computer is fixed and I'm back to finish the cruise with you all.

Day 1 we boarded the ship in Miami, Florida and spent day 2 on the ship all day.  On day 3 we landed in Cozumel and took the tender (fairy) across to the Yucatan to see Tulum.

This is the beginning of day 4.  We have just arrived in Belize and are taking some buses to where some speed boats will take us up the New River to the ruins at Lamani.  These ruins date back to the Book of Mormon times.  The day started dry, but soon got so wet we were soaked to the skin!  We couldn't have been wetter if we had fallen in the river.  The official language of Belize is English.

In port in Belize.  The guy in the yellow, black and white shirt is Devon Ogden of Cruise Lady.  He was a great help and good friend on the trip.  He reminded me a lot of Eric; same size and age.

 Theresa is waiting to get on the bus and anxious to get going.  The man in the black shirt is Chuck, also from Cruise Lady, our tour directors.

 This is a Jacana on the New River.  They are often called Jesus birds because they appear to walk on water.  However, they stand on lily pads.  Soon after this, about 10 minutes into the boat ride up river the rain just started to pour down and didn't let up for the rest of the day.

 This is the one of two Jaguars built into the Jaguar temple

 This is called the High Temple.  Theresa can almost be seen halfway up the stairs. 

 I am soaking wet and watching Theresa climb the stairs.  Fortunately it was only cold when we were speeding up and down the river.  While on land, it was very warm.  I ruined any chances of walking the next day because the ground was very slippery and my bad hip really took a beating.  It was all I could do to get back to the boats on the river.

 This is one of the masks on the Mask Temple.  There are at least two, but not all of this temple has been uncovered.  There are also many parts of walls to be seem around the site that have not been uncovered.  The governments don't have enough money to have archeologists uncover the thousands of sites that are in central America and Mexico.

 Here we are back on the speed boat in the river trying to keep warm.  There is no hope of keeping dry as we are already as wet as we can get!

Back at the dock there is a wonderful meal cooked for us by the local peole who live in very small huts on stilts.  The food was delicious.  We had chicken, rice and beans, fried plantains, peppered onions (as in HOT peppers) and individual coconut cream pies.

It was wonderful to get back to the ship for a hot shower and dry clothes!

Here we are at our first on ship Formal Dinner (we had two).  I am wearing the dress I wore  at Angie's wedding reception about 12 years ago.

A Little Problem

I promise I will send more of the cruise details.  I am having trouble with my compute right now so Warren is going to get a new  operating system.  My computer will be down for a few days.  I'll get back to it as soon as I can.  Love to all my children, granchildren, sisters, dad and special friends who take the time to read my blogs.