Family Cruise: Day 5

Antigua was absolutely AMAZING!  We spent the day at Beach Limerz with an all day pass that included chairs and umbrellas, access to non-motorized water sports, drinks and an amazing lunch.  The facilities were gorgeous, the beach to die for and the food and drinks spectacular.  No one wanted to leave!!

I tried to kayak and let's just say each of those pictures perfectly represents my "success"!  Mom rocked the standup paddle board and we all has fun lounging in the clear waters and on the beach!  There were even some beach dogs that we had fun with....especially an adorable puppy who seemed to love the attention!

That night we had a casual dinner in the Windjammer Buffet and then headed to the nights entertainment at the ice rink!

 

 

Love,

Kate

xoxo

 

Family Cruise: Day 4

Today we stopped in St. Kitts.  This island was our families least favorite of all our stops...although still an amazing day.  It could have been what we choose to do or the fact that Tropical Storm Karen stirred up the waters not making them very clear on this island.

We started the day by searching for sea glass.  The Weninger's are huge sea glass hunters and have an amazing collection.  Mom was super excited for this.  It turns out that the grosses beaches have the best sea glass and we found a gross beach with a TON of sea glass.  There were huge pieces everywhere and some people were in heaven.  Dad and I were not in heaven.  It was super hot and sunny and there was no way we were getting in the gross water.  After a short time he and I headed back to the ship to swim in the pool until everyone met us on the ship for lunch.  The rest of them had a blast finding tons of sea glass and even marbles.  Mom was in heaven with her treasures!

After lunch on the ship most of us headed out to the island again and went to Shipwreck beach bar for the rest of the afternoon. The sand on the beach was kinda black and the water was not clear.  It felt like a lake to me and I just was not really into it.  After some coaxing, I finally got in the water and had lots of fun.  We had a tropical drink at the beach bar and then headed back to the ship.

When we got back on the ship we headed to the wave pool where I was able to learn how to knee board.  It was so fun!

That night we had our normal dinner in the dining room where Willow and I ordered what became our nightly tradition of "escargot minus the escargot" (although they always brought it with the snails) and we dipped our bread into the yummy garlic butter!

We were then in for a hilarious and intense performance by a crazy mens group from Spain.  It was hilarious and we were right in the front row for all the crazy and even had sweat dripped on us numerous times!  HA!

Love,
Kate
xoxo

Family Cruise: Day 3

This was our first cruise stop....in St. Maarten. We were able to see the island once we woke up and went out on our balcony.  The balcony was a nice add to our room making it bigger and being able to see where we were at all time.

St. Maarten was a very pretty island and we spent the day at Mullet Bay and Maho Beach.  We layed out, swam and had a blast at Mullet Bay. The water and sand was perfect!  There was a beach BBQ hut where we had lunch and enjoyed the day.

We stopped at Maho Beach on the way back to the cruise ship.  While the waters had turned and there was not much of a beach, we were able to sit on the ledge near the rocks and watch the planes come in.  The beach is right before the airport runway and you can sit and have an experience of your life as the large jets land right over your head!!  It was quite the experience!

We did a little shopping at the cruise port and then headed back to the ship to get cleaned up for formal dinner. 

While Willow, Dane and I explored the ship and had fun, mom, dad, Donna and Kathleen met the Captain at a champagne event and explored on their own.  We all met for a very yummy formal dinner.

To complete the evening we went to the show where we got to order a pina colada!  When we got back to the room I was surprised with a towel animal in the shape of Lambie!!

An amazing day!

Love,
Kate
xoxo