But Wait There's More!

I just realized I didn't share a few things from our trip! Like the whole Island of Roatan! It was the last port of call. The place we docked was beautiful! There were native dancers and drummers performing in costume as we got off the ship.

It was the most green and lush of all the places we visited. We had made arrangements to do our last two dives for our scuba certification here. We went to Tylls Dive shop on the West Bay.

Dorte an ex patriate of Denmark owns the shop. She was so friendly and incredibly helpful as we were short on time. She and a few friends sat around playing cards while our Dive Master Robert took us out on our two dives.

He was awesome and Jeff and I both learned so much from him. We loved the dive site here. We went down the reef wall. It was beautiful. We saw a large sea turtle about 60 feet down and a lobster. The visibility was fantastic, and the water was the perfect temperature. Our ship was only at port for a few hours here and I think it is the one I would have wanted to stay at the longest. I would love to go back and stay for a week. The whole atmosphere was so relaxed.

Guess we'll have to finish exploring next time!

Its a Jungle Out There

Belize lived up to all of my wild imaginations of what a jungle should be, and then some!

From the natives hanging like caged animals to the fence surrounding the port when we arrived, to the way they stalked their prey (us) on our way to meet our guide. Our 45 minute drive through the heart of Belize City and then out through the lush greenery to Jaguar Paw was an eye opening experience to say the least. We were thrilled when we arrived at the resort in the heart of the jungle. I almost expected to see Tarzan swinging through the trees at any moment!

We saw crazy trees with needles for bark and cute little frogs. We were swarmed by mosquitos and were on the look out for jaguars!!

We hiked through the jungle for about 20 minutes.

We stopped at an entrance into one of the cave systems that lie in and through the mountains. The limestone formations were amazing!

We continued a little further and climbed up to where we would begin our rappel.

The view was spectacular!

The drop was just over 185 feet.

At the bottom was an opening in one of the cave systems.

From here we would be climbing onto inner tubes and floating with the current in the river through the cave system. We saw some large groups come through, linked together.

We played in the water while we waited for our tubes to arrive from the resort.

We had a great time exploring, and were completely taken in by the beauty of the area.

Or guide Clarence was so much fun and full of information about the area and the history of the people.

There was an opening in the caves right at Jaguar Paw, where we reluctantly ended out tour.

We would love to have had more time in this tropical wonderland!

I've Got A Feelin'...

That tonight's gonna be a good, good night!

Wednesday evening we were on a roll of good times and good luck!

Jeff had been checking out the happenings on the ship and ended up entering in the ship's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" competition. He won. Twice. I was just finishing up reading a book by the pool when they began teaching a "Thriller" dance class. Since I already knew the moves from our performance earlier this year I ended up helping teach the class!

From there I raced back to my room to shower before meeting Jeff at the theater to watch an entertainer the ship had brought onboard for the week. When I found Jeff he was sitting on the front row and almost immediately he had volunteered me to the entertainer as an assistant. He had me trying to stand on a board balancing on a large PVC tube. The plan was for me to show how difficult it really is to balance there before he got up to do his stunt, Unfortunately for him I have way too many years of gymnastics under my belt to look like a complete fool up there! We had fun bantering back and forth and I ended up staying on stage for about 10 minutes of his show.

Here is our guy showing us how to work the unicycle

Next we hit the Karaoke Lounge. Jeff rocked the house and even brought up the blow up guitar when he sang Aerosmith's Walk This Way.

After much prodding from Jeff and some pleading with some sweet gals I had met at the pool I actually got up and gave it a whirl! I had never done it before! I decided if we had enough sass, attitude and fun up there, that no one would notice how horrible my singing was. I sang Shania Twain's Man I Feel Like a Woman! It was actually a ton of fun and my backup dancers were great moral support. Our friend from the ship PJ even came up and worked it out on the blow up guitar! We got a standing ovation!!

After a few more songs Jeff and I went over to Medusa's Lounge for some dancing! The theme was Disco and nobody was dancing. They were actually playing some great tunes, so Jeff and I took over the dance floor! Several others joined us after a bit. When we finally needed a break and stepped off the dance floor, we got our second standing ovation of the night! I couldn't believe it, the place was packed and they were all cheering for us, it was hilarious!

After a nice little breather they had a disco dance competion. I sent Jeff out onto the floor. He shook his groove thing and the crowd went wild! He was the undisputed winner and was given a trophy of the ship for his prize.

When you're on, you're on. By the time we headed back up to our room we were feeling like we were all that and a bag of chips! At least for tonight.

Can you blame us?

(okay so just a few side notes. I have no idea how to get these lines to go away under everything. Secondly the dancing pics were from the last night when we had the lounge to ourselves but decided we needed a few pictures there)