Well, I still don't have wedding pictures, but would some honeymoon pictures suffice?
If you don't know already, Royce took me on a wonderful cruise to the Western Caribbean.
It was perfect! (especially considering the fluctuating Utah weather we had been experiencing). We made all of our flights just fine, and made it onto the cruise boat without them leaving us. I was a little dizzy at first, so I took some dramamine and it seemed to help (it also made me conk out at like 9:00).The first full day on the cruise we spent floating through the ocean, though I'm not sure floating is the correct term for what a cruise-ship does. We had lots of lovely food, went to a couple of activities (name that tune, pictionary, and other exciting-like things), and just generally relaxed and caught up on a lot of missed sleep from the week before.
The first place the boat stopped was Grand Cayman. The island itself wasn't much to see, but we sure had a fun time on our excursion. First, we visited Hell. It's this half-acre of burnt up land that somebody decided to call hell and now they take tourists' and their money to visit it. It wasn't great, but it was part of a triple-package tour so it was fine.
If you look really hard, you can make out the gray devil somebody has placed there.
I don't know whether these two pictures are considered sacrilegious, but I thought it was kind of funny. Royce's Note: Notice who is the devil, and who is the angel in this picture.The next stop was a rum-cake factory. That wasn't in the brochure, so I guess it was a bonus visit! A great one too! For two Mormons we sure did get drunk off cake.
Actually, Royce and I did not sample any rum cake or buy any rum. Instead, we had this picture taken.
Kind of pretty.The next stop was really cool. It was a turtle farm where they breed turtles, surprisingly. The guide told us all about turtles, but if you asked me what he said I couldn't tell you. Probably because it was overshadowed by the fact that we got to hold the turtles! Cool, eh?
You can't tell, but this is actually me holding the turtle.I realize a lot of you out there have or have had pet turtles, but there's something about holding a turtle at a turtle farm that's just neat.
Royce's Note: Later we both got Salmonella and died. Actually apparently the salt water and filter system they have there prevents salmonella. Go figure.
The last part was the best. We took a fairly long boat ride out into the middle of nowhere pretty much, but more specifically to a sandbar full of stingrays. Our guides were native Cayman islanders who had been going to the sandbar since they were children and knew the stingrays by name! We got to touch and hold and play with the stingrays, which sounds kind of scary (and it is at first), but it was so neat!
Royce's Note: WARNING: BEWARE PICTURE OF EXTREME WHITENESS LIE AHEAD!
Because we don't have a waterproof camera, these were the only pictures we got. But don't you worry, I was right there in the water with Royce and those stingrays. At one point, the two guides both put the stingrays they were holding up against me, making me into a "stingray sandwich." I was laughing so hard.That was our first two days on the cruise more to come later.
