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Monday, December 27, 2010

Our Cruise!

This year for Christmas Bradens parents gave us a cruise! We went with Bradens parents, his brother Camren and his cousin Punky (Robyn)! It was so much fun! We left out of Puerto Rico and visited St. Thomas, Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, and St. Marten!  I loved every place we went!  We also had lots of fun on the cruise boat, but most of those pictures were on another camera.
First Island, St. Thomas.  Bradens family has been on a lot of cruises over the years so they know where the good spots are.  From St. Thomas we took a ferry over to St. John to this amazing beach!  It's rated like the second best beach in the world.  It was so pretty with the blue water and the white sand! Definitely the prettiest beach that we visited the whole trip! 

While we were there we went snorkeling!

Here is Punky! It was so much fun to have her on the trip with us

Even Amber got in the water!


Weird coincidence.. our good friends Rodger and Cortney ended up being on the exact same cruise with us! We didn't even realize it until both of us had booked the cruise!

Then there was formal night

 
One of the bar waiters made Punky a rose out of napkins! He was awesome and he came back everynight to teach us new tricks!

The second island that we visited was Barbados!  I really loved Barbados! We had an awesome cab driver names Nigel who took us all around the island on a little tour and then to the beach!  We got to see some fun places like where Rhianna grew up, where Tiger Woods got married, and a bunch of places that celebs stay at when they visit.

On our drive we saw some wild monkies that we got to get up close to

We got to see the oldest church on the island

Then we went snorkeling again with the fish and sea turtles!

Also at the beach we went waverunning on the ocean!

Third island.. St. Lucia!  The whole day was taken up by one thing.. Ziplining! It was awesome to zipline through the rainforest! We looked super cute in our hair nets and helmets!





The fourth island was St. Kitts!  We hired another driver for the day, he called himself Dr. Elvis.  He took us all around the island, but my favorite part of the island was the people had pet monkies that they would let you take pictures with!  Now I want a pet monkey! Love them!


The monkey is eating my sunglasses! 


St. Kitts also had a really beautiful garden that we stopped at

The last island we went to was St. Marten! Wow did we have an interesting time there!
We visited a partially nude beach, rented a dune buggy, and went parasailing!
(I'll refrain from posting the pictures of us by the nude beach sign haha)

I'm so excited/nervous to parasail



Braden in the dune buggy!

Overall we had an amazing trip and did some amazing things!  Thanks Amber and Steve for a great vacation!