Bahama Vacation!

The end of April Zach and I took a wonderful cruise to the Bahamas! It was kind of a late graduation celebration, an early anniversary celebration, and one last vacation before our big move! We drove all the way to Florida...which was our first long road trip with just the two of us. The 24 hour straight through drive to Utah with 6 people and 2 dogs in one car is not something we like to think about!

We left from Port Canaveral, Florida and stayed in a great place there the night before with free parking and shuttle that took us to the cruise terminal...defintaley the way to go to avoid $20 a day parking at the terminal!

Since we took a Carnival cruise for our honeymoon and I had been on some previously...we were both past cruisers and had our gold card instead of the normal blue one, so we felt special from the start.

After playing around on the ship the first day, we went to Freeport. The weather looked like it might rain on us at first but it ended up being a great day!

We drank out of coconuts...mango, passion fruit, and all kinds of yummy island fruits!

Technically the island are British...so there were a few phone booths that brought back memories of my time in England!

I made a sweet new friend on one of the piers...I always love seeing cats and dogs in other countries. They are always the same, but I still like seeing them. So sweet Bahama kitty was sunbathing! One of the many ladies that was harrassing me about getting my hair braided...they wanted to braid everybody's hair...took a picture of us by the beach. One of the few with both of us that is not a self portrait!

Self portrait on the beach in the wind!

We bought a new camera before the trip...like a real nice camera because ours got stolen by plumbers who were in our apartment! That is a whole other story! But I was still trying to learn how to really use it and it takes pretty flower pictures! Hopefully my photography skills will improve if I can ever read through the whole manual on it!

Attempting to be artistic with the camera. I like taking pictures when Zach doesn't know I am taking them!

There were lots of very tall palm trees and a beautiful blue sky as a background!

Back on the ship leaving Freeport...headed to Nassau!!!

Towel animals every night after meals where we ate way too much! I love cruise food!

Docked in Nassau we could see the amazing Atlantis Resort...let me just say if you ever want to go to a nice resort and spend a lot of money....this is the place to do it. We went over there in the afternoon and it was one of the nicest places either of us had ever been to! Maybe after med school we can take our family there!

We spent our morning in Nassau at the beach getting our tan on! We didn't want to take our new camera, so we took an old one which it not cooperating with me. Just wanted to make it known that we did enjoy time at the beach on our tropical vacation!

I could totally live on this little island. Maybe I could take up jewlery making and hair braiding!

Cute Zachary getting ready to get off the ship to wander around the town!

The town was very clean and the people were really nice!

More flowers!

At Atlantis

They have a huge amazing aquarium with pretty much every kind of fish you could imagine, but the pictures don't do it justice.

This is on top of the all the aquariums.

We were docked in Nassau until about 5 a.m. It was cool to be in port somewhere at night!

We loved the cruise just wish it could have been longer! Once we got off the ship and back to our car we were headed to Mobile, Alabama to stay the night but not without making lots of fun pit stops.

Zach loves college campuses for some reason and loves the Florida Gators. So we got this picture at the stadium and he got a hat and shirt.

After our night in Mobile, where we were both experiencing bad sea legs, our second day of driving brought us to outlet malls in Mississippi for me and LSU in Baton Rouge for Zach!

We then spent a few days in Beaumont with my dad to wrap up our week of no work!

Then we stopped in Conroe at my mom's to get our little Chico who we had missed so much! Mom loves to babysit her granddog!

It was a great trip and we wish could do a tropical vacation every month!!