Cruising Days 5 & 6 - Aruba & Curacao

Wednesday we docked at our third port, Aruba, on my 21st birthday!

Aruba was really colorful! It was really hot so we decided to skip the beach and shop instead, so not too many pictures were taken.

After lots of shopping and walking around, we headed back onto the ship for dinner! And after dinner was birthday cake time. Nomnomnom!

Aruba was the first port where the ship didn't leave until about midnight, so we were able to go back out after dinner which was really awesome. We went to a bar for drinks!

Birthday beer!

After drinks, we headed back onto the ship (which looks really neat at night).

Stingray towel animal! :D

I bought myself an iPod Touch in Aruba! My old one pretty much ran out of space and was crashing so I upgraded to a 32 GB. I'm having fun with it and the 4th generation is pretty awesome!

Birthday card from Carnival! It has a dolphin on it. It's pretty adorable.

The next day we were in Curacao!

Again, it was mostly shopping because it was too hot to do anything else.

The gorgeous view from our balcony.

Next stop: Florida!

Elephant! :D I think he was my favorite.

Next on the blogging to-do list are the last two sea days, and the plane ride back home. Stay tuned!

Off Cruising Day 4 - Dominican Republic

On Tuesday, we were off to our second port: La Romana, Dominican Republic!

We stayed at Dreams, a resort, for the day. It had a pool pictured above..

..and also a beach!

They also had beautiful flamingos!

I had a couple of Pina Coladas. Yum yum!

Gorgeous flowers.

Right when we were leaving, it started to pour down rain. And when I say pour.. I mean pour.

We went back on the ship at about 3:30, and went back to our cabin to watch port runners. If you aren't aware, port runners are people who are late coming back onto the ship and run like MAD to get on before the ship leaves without them. This is our idea of fun.

The view from our balcony.

We were able to watch some kids play baseball from the ship!

The photographer in action. Oh and you can see my sunburnt hands. Yeah I'm not even sure how that even happened.

Rainbow!!

Off we go... onto the next port! Watching the ship leave was always fun.

Our picture from the first formal night! I really love it. :)

That's all folks! Next is Aruba, my 21st birthday, and Curacao!

Off Cruising Day 3 - Turks & Caicos

Monday we stopped at our first port: Grand Turk!

Before we had breakfast and got off the ship, we watched the sunrise from our balcony.

Capturing the sunrise with my dad.

After breakfast, we got off the ship for a day by the beach!

The ship was directly in front of us when we docked.

This is when we left my dad to sunbathe while Wendy and I went on our excursion haha.

While Wendy and I were waiting to go on our excursion, we walked around looking at the shops and all the touristy stuff. :)

After a few minutes, we were off on our stingray excursion on a boat to Gibbs Cay!

The water was so unbelievably turquoise there - it was just gorgeous.

Stingray! Wendy and I got to hold and kiss them, and we even got a back massage from them. It was definitely an experience. We got pictures taken.... but bright me decided to forget about picking those up. You know when I remembered about them? When the ship was on its way to the next port... yeah, a bit too late to be running back. Or swim, rather.

Wendy and I! Definitely a favorite picture of mine. :)

The conch shell display was pretty cool.

Cool looking rocks near the shore.

Seagulls! I love photographing these guys.

I had fun capturing the waves hitting the rocks, let me tell you.

When we got back to our cabin after dinner, this little guy was waiting for us! I still have yet to figure out what animal he is... any guesses? Either way, he's pretty cute with his cruising hat and sunglasses.
Well. That concludes day 3! Day 4 is the Dominican Republic, which I will be blogging about next!