Pictures will be sparse! However, I'm working on getting access to a scanner for a few, and some friends have some pictures I want to get sent to me, I may choose to post some of those. I can also find several generic pictures online easily enough!
It was not just my husband and I on the cruise, we went on the cruise with several friends who also booked.
Trip summary, for those seeking anecdotes:
We drove down to Buffalo, NY on the 9th. The temperature outside when we left was -6 F/-21 C. Our flight stopped briefly in Atlanta, where there was snow on the ground (!!), then finished in Miami, where people were shivering still. It had snowed in Daytona, and even Miami was a chilly 41 F/5 C. Not what one expects out of a trip to South Beach, but we arrived at 9PM anyway and went right to bed. The next day wasn't much better, the temperature never climbed above 55F/13C on Sunday when we boarded the good ship Carnival Glory.
From there we went south. By Monday, it was warm enough for shorts, although swimming on deck was not fun. The day got steadily warmer as we headed south, and we spent most of it drinking and eating and drinking and dancing and drinking and stuff.
This was also the first "Formal" night aboard the ship, so we dressed to the nines. It was a blast.
Early Tuesday morning we made port in Cozumel. The weather was a comparatively balmy 70-75F and rather than take the expensive shore excursions offered on the ship, we went on our own off to
Chankanaab national park. Great beaches, some Mayan ruins, great margaritas, and the opportunity to swim with dolphins--at half the price that the same tour was offered by the shore-excursion desk on-ship. (Picture still incoming). We spent the day there, before getting back on the ship around 4pm, and repeating a more casual version of the previous night's festivities.
Wednesday the ship moored 6 miles off the coast of Belize, which has no port to dock at. Belize is a very poor country, but it was still quite the experience and a hell of a lot of fun. We caught a tourbus which took us about an hour inland, to a river coming down from the mountains. There we all got into life-jackets, put on water-proof head-lamps that a miner might use, and floated underground in big inflatable tubes through a series of caves and caverns that just blew me away.
Pictures here are from "cave-tubing.com". We couldn't really take any useful pictures ourselves, the caves were pitch-dark apart from our headlamps and little waterproof cameras tend not to have much capability of handling that size of a cavern anyway.
The next day we arived in Isla Roatan, Honduras. Most beautiful beaches I've ever been on. We laid there on various beaches, drinking beer and margaritas most of the day, no big explorations, just wonderfully stereotypical vacation fare.
The next day was our stop in Grand Cayman. Here we travelled 3 miles out into the bay, to a sandbar where the water was only 4 feet deep. There we got out and fed the stingrays, which were as tame as kittens. This was also our second "Formal" night, so the evening was again quite the party.
Pictures courtesy of google search:
Then there was another day or partying and indulgence at sea as the ship once again rounded Cuba for the trip back to Miami.
Personal photos still to come!
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