the cruise was great!

Hi everyone, can you believe I am blogging? The slide show was all I could do in one day, so now we'll see if I can add the words. We went on the Caribbean Princess. It was 950 feet long. If you walk around the Promanade deck 2.7 times you've walked one mile! With over 3000 guests and 1100 crew the elevators were very busy so we took the stairs a lot and now I can walk up and down stairs withour holding on to something! We left from San Juan, Puerto Rico and went to St. Thomas where we got an open air taxi to Coki Beach and snorkled. It was great. Tortolla was next. We caught another open air taxi and took an exciting tour of the Island. The roads are very narrow and winding and steep! Thats where I found us a lot! It was a little steep though! We went to a beach there too. Antiqua was next and we booked a tour from the ship. We toured part of the Island, took a speed boat out to some mangroves where kayaks were waiting for us. We did that for while then boated over to Bird Island where we snorkled, then climbed Bird Island to the top where so had wonderful views! St. Lucia was next and we did the same tour Ron and Diane just did a few weeks ago. They found it on the internet, Cosol Tours. It was almost 8 hours long and was great. We toured the Island, stopping to eat a few times, shopped at little road side stands, learn about how bananas grow, viewed a volcano that smelled just like Yellowstone, swam in a waterfall then boated to a great beach and view of the pitons where we had some of our best snorkling ever! Barbados was next the we took a taxi to a beach where we swam out aways and snorkled where the turtles were- cool! The last day was at sea. At night we went to the wonderful shows, then walked around the ship to see what else was happening. We danced a lot, sometimes at the ballroom dancing place and the disco the same night. We slept very good! We went to church in San Juan. It was very nice. It was all in Spanish but we were happy to be there. We had a wonderful trip and felt so blessed to have felt so good and had peace and safety and most of, we all grew to love each other even more! Hope we can go with all of you in the near future!