So since my last post Kira has graduated from high school and gone on her senior trip... Which we ended up going on with her! We went on a cruise to the Bahamas and had tons of fun! Brandi, Mike, Aunt Shawna, and our friends Danielle and Jesse went on the trip too, along with several other people and graduates from Kanab. We just got back on Thursday! Hunter stayed with Ben's parents for the 1st 3 days that we were gone, then stayed with my parents the last 3 days. They both said that he did really good so that was a relief! We didn't hear that he did good until we got back cuz we weren't about to pay international fees to use our cellphones! I did turn mine on every night just in case there was a problem just so you don't think I totally forgot about Hunter while we were gone. Well here are tons of pics from the cruise:
Our first night there they had this laser tag set up. It was pretty much just a big bounce house, which made it really hard to run around in there. I kept falling over, it was still fun though and we were all only 300 points apart from each other. (Left to right: Danielle, me, Jesse, Ben)
The first port we went to was Freeport. We signed up for a fishing excursion. Here is Danielle's first fish, she caught 3!
Ben's fish, it's called a grunt.
So nobody on the ship had been catching anything for a little bit, so the guys running the boat asked if anyone had brought any bananas. We thought it was really weird that they were asking that, so they went on to explain that there is an old superstition that bananas are bad luck when fishing. Jesse had brought bananas on board in case they needed a snack. It was really funny cuz right after they told us about that and we told them that he had brought bananas, he was the very next one to catch a fish.
Here is my fish with it's bait still hanging out of it's mouth, they used squid. In the end Danielle had caught 3, Ben, Jesse, and me all only caught 1. Me and Ben had eaten bananas at breakfast and Jesse had brought some on board, so I guess maybe there is some truth to the banana myth since Danielle hadn't had anything to do with bananas!
This was one of the other people on the excursion, this fish was so weird! It was a sucker fish, but not like the ones at the pet store, this ones suction was on the top of it's head! One of the guys running the boat put the fish upside down on the side of the boat and had the girls husband try to pull the fish off. He couldn't budge it, they had to pry it off with a knife!
Here we are on our formal night.
We wanted a picture of us girls on formal night, but Kira forgot and by the time we found her she had already changed, but here are us girls!
The 2nd day we ported at Nassau, we signed up for a snorkeling excursion that day. We rode on a catamaran to get the snorkeling sight. It was awesome to see the water below you on this net! We had a blast snorkeling, Ben and Jesse found tons of conch shells and a starfish too! They only let you keep the shells if they were pretty big they said that smaller ones were just babies. Jesse had found a big enough one, so they popped the conch out of the shell and cleaned it up for him. Apparently they like to eat conch out there... raw... so they cut it up rinsed it off in the ocean and everybody got to eat it right then and there. Ben said it wasn't too bad, but there was no way I was going to eat something that had been alive 2 seconds ago and hadn't even been cooked!
Here is one of the smaller shells that they had found, which we took on board cuz they said they didn't see anything in it so we could take it too. Later in our room this crab decided to stop hiding! Jesse said he had known there was something in it all along, but since it wasn't a conch Ben ended up throwing it back overboard the next day. I was worried when I woke up to go to the bathroom in the night that it was going to crawl away and I was going to step on it, it never moved though.
After snorkeling we ended up renting some scooters and drove around the island, we went and found a beach, where Jesse knocked a coconut off a tree, it broke open so he drank the milk out of it. I think the locals thought we were pretty amusing since me and Danielle were worried the whole time that we were going to get in trouble and kept trying to get the boys back on the scooters. We also got to drive up to the Atlantis resort, that's where we are in the pic you can see a water fountain behind us. For those of you who don't know the Atlantis resort is where Holiday in the Sun (a Mary Kate and Ashley movie) was filmed, which was part of the reason they choice that cruise to go on.
I always have to put pics of Hunter cuz he is just too cute. Two weeks before the cruise we took Hunter fishing to Panguitch lake. None of us caught a thing! It was a bummer I really wanted him to get to see a fish, but I think he still had fun. We got him a Lightning McQueen fishing pole that he played with for quite a while!
I don't have a clue what he was doing, but thought he was pulling a way funny face so had to take a picture!
I LOVE his smile!! There were tons of bugs everywhere while we were fishing. In all these pics you can see black spots in the sky, and that thing on Hunters eyebrow is a bug too! It was so gross! I staying in my sweatshirt with hood snug the whole time! Hunter didn't even seem to hardly notice!
Our first night in Orlando we stayed in a hotel, outside our hotel were 2 ponds. We thought this sign was kind of funny since my mom had called the night before while we were flying to Florida and told me to watch out for alligators, and then there was a warning about it right on our hotels property!
While we were looking at the fish in the water this turtle swam by and all the fish kept following him. He kept sinking down a little bit then swimming back up, we caught a glimpse of his belling and it was bright orange! He also had a pointy nose, considering I've only seen desert turtles and pet store turtles I thought he was pretty cool looking! We also saw tons of different birds around our hotel.
This is us in front of the pond, it had a cute little deck that went out over the water.
While we were looking at the fish in the water this turtle swam by and all the fish kept following him. He kept sinking down a little bit then swimming back up, we caught a glimpse of his belling and it was bright orange! He also had a pointy nose, considering I've only seen desert turtles and pet store turtles I thought he was pretty cool looking! We also saw tons of different birds around our hotel. Here we are when we first got on our ship, behind the whale tail there was a splash pad, two water slides, and a hydra tube. They were always packed with people so we only went down the tube once. We also got in the pool once, and while we were in it noticed the people next to us pretty much going at it... disgusting! If you have ever been in a cruise you probably know that the pools are always packed with people, there were some little kids right next to them too. We went to the marriage show and the newlyweds that were on stage admitted to also doing that in the pool, so we didn't ever get in the pool again!
Our first night there they had this laser tag set up. It was pretty much just a big bounce house, which made it really hard to run around in there. I kept falling over, it was still fun though and we were all only 300 points apart from each other. (Left to right: Danielle, me, Jesse, Ben)The first port we went to was Freeport. We signed up for a fishing excursion. Here is Danielle's first fish, she caught 3! Ben's fish, it's called a grunt. So nobody on the ship had been catching anything for a little bit, so the guys running the boat asked if anyone had brought any bananas. We thought it was really weird that they were asking that, so they went on to explain that there is an old superstition that bananas are bad luck when fishing. Jesse had brought bananas on board in case they needed a snack. It was really funny cuz right after they told us about that and we told them that he had brought bananas, he was the very next one to catch a fish. Here is my fish with it's bait still hanging out of it's mouth, they used squid. In the end Danielle had caught 3, Ben, Jesse, and me all only caught 1. Me and Ben had eaten bananas at breakfast and Jesse had brought some on board, so I guess maybe there is some truth to the banana myth since Danielle hadn't had anything to do with bananas! This was one of the other people on the excursion, this fish was so weird! It was a sucker fish, but not like the ones at the pet store, this ones suction was on the top of it's head! One of the guys running the boat put the fish upside down on the side of the boat and had the girls husband try to pull the fish off. He couldn't budge it, they had to pry it off with a knife!
Here we are on our formal night.We wanted a picture of us girls on formal night, but Kira forgot and by the time we found her she had already changed, but here are us girls!The 2nd day we ported at Nassau, we signed up for a snorkeling excursion that day. We rode on a catamaran to get the snorkeling sight. It was awesome to see the water below you on this net! We had a blast snorkeling, Ben and Jesse found tons of conch shells and a starfish too! They only let you keep the shells if they were pretty big they said that smaller ones were just babies. Jesse had found a big enough one, so they popped the conch out of the shell and cleaned it up for him. Apparently they like to eat conch out there... raw... so they cut it up rinsed it off in the ocean and everybody got to eat it right then and there. Ben said it wasn't too bad, but there was no way I was going to eat something that had been alive 2 seconds ago and hadn't even been cooked! Here is one of the smaller shells that they had found, which we took on board cuz they said they didn't see anything in it so we could take it too. Later in our room this crab decided to stop hiding! Jesse said he had known there was something in it all along, but since it wasn't a conch Ben ended up throwing it back overboard the next day. I was worried when I woke up to go to the bathroom in the night that it was going to crawl away and I was going to step on it, it never moved though. After snorkeling we ended up renting some scooters and drove around the island, we went and found a beach, where Jesse knocked a coconut off a tree, it broke open so he drank the milk out of it. I think the locals thought we were pretty amusing since me and Danielle were worried the whole time that we were going to get in trouble and kept trying to get the boys back on the scooters. We also got to drive up to the Atlantis resort, that's where we are in the pic you can see a water fountain behind us. For those of you who don't know the Atlantis resort is where Holiday in the Sun (a Mary Kate and Ashley movie) was filmed, which was part of the reason they choice that cruise to go on.I always have to put pics of Hunter cuz he is just too cute. Two weeks before the cruise we took Hunter fishing to Panguitch lake. None of us caught a thing! It was a bummer I really wanted him to get to see a fish, but I think he still had fun. We got him a Lightning McQueen fishing pole that he played with for quite a while!
I don't have a clue what he was doing, but thought he was pulling a way funny face so had to take a picture! I LOVE his smile!! There were tons of bugs everywhere while we were fishing. In all these pics you can see black spots in the sky, and that thing on Hunters eyebrow is a bug too! It was so gross! I staying in my sweatshirt with hood snug the whole time! Hunter didn't even seem to hardly notice!He's so funny, he was sitting there feeding Ben jerky for quite a while! This pic you can see the most bugs, there are tons in the sky.
Well all in all it's been a pretty fun couple of weeks! We are definitely happy to be home and get to be with Hunter again! It was a nice break, but I think we will wait quite a while before we leave him for that long again!
