Adventures in Traveling pt3 Cozumel

Our favorite part of the whole vacation was visiting the Mexican island of Cozumel. We had originally planned to take a taxi to a few spots around the island that I had researched before getting there but when we got off the ship we found it would be only a little more to rent a car for the whole day so that is what we did. Our first stop was Paradise Beach.


After spending a few hours there we jumped in our cute little rental car and headed to the other side of the island. When we asked the rental car guy the best beach and the best place for lunch he gave us a map and drew a line on it and said go here, it was on the opposite side of the island then most of the tourist stuff! We could not believe how beautiful the other side of the island was(the locals definitely know best).



It looked like this for miles and miles! And there were only a handful of people at each beach. They didn't recommend swimming on this side because of the rough water but it was by far the most scenic. We stoped for lunch where our rental car friend told us to, a little place called Coconuts. It was on a cliff overlooking the ocean! Cannot get much better than that.

Our view from Coconuts.
We are so thankful we got to go on this vacation and hope to have another opportunity like this again someday!

Adventures in Traveling pt 2-The Cruise

We didn't want to get off the boat! If you have never been on a cruise before and ever have the chance take it. This was Jason's first cruise and my second. We were on the Royal Caribbean ship Navigator of the Seas and it was HUGE(138,000tons). It could hold over 3,000 people!
My favorite part was dinner! The food and service was outstanding, we even tried escargot.

Yes-that is a snail. It was actually good. The scene from our seat was breathtaking.

After dinner we would do see a show in this beautiful theatre.

The shows were very good! I now think when Simon tells someone on American Idol they sound like someone on a cruise ship I will take it as a compliment!
Laying on the deck was sooooo relaxing and beautiful, all you could see was blue ocean.



There was always something to do, putt putt golf, basketball, drink coffee in the cafe.

Like I said, we didn't want to get off the boat.

Adventures in Traveling pt 1

What a week we have had! We just got back from a 4 day Cruise from Fort Lauderdale to Cozumel. There is so much to share about our trip I am going to break it up into 3 parts.
Part 1- Travel
Part 2- The Cruise
Part 3- Cozumel

We had an absolutly fabulous time despite a little snag. We flew down to Florida on Wednesday night on Skybus Airlines. Both Jason and I felt pretty sick in some way on the flight, we still aren't sure why, but once we hit the ground we felt much better-we think the cabin pressure was off but everyone else seemed to be fine. We planned to fly back on Skybus Monday evening after getting off the boat. BUT...on Sunday morning we found out that Skybus went out of business cancelling all flights from Saturday on. Now what are the chances that we a.)Were out of town b.)had flown Skybus c.)were in Mexico when they made the announcement! I mean come on....what are the chances. Luckily one of our family members on the boat had been watching one of the news channels and saw it go across the screen. We really thought they were joking when they told us. Determined not to let it spoil our vacation we emailed our friends asking them to do a little research so we would know our options-email was our best options considering it cost $13 a min to call out and .55 cents a minute to email. Luckily our friends had been working on this for us before we even know about it and reserved us a flight a day after we had planned and had made arrangements for us to stay with a friend in Miami.
Here we are with our friend Joey-we had a great time hanging out in Miami.


Our original flight was going from Ft Lauderdale to Charlotte to New Orleans to Columbus. We decided to get to the airport early and see if we could get a better conection. We ended up getting a connecting flight to Columbus from Charlotte without paying any extra! This was a total blessing. And guess who we ran into at the Charlotte airport?



Univeristy of Kentucky Basketball player Ramel Bradley! Jason reconized him as he was going into the bathroom and called out his name. I was really confused until I realized who he was. And can you believe Jason had his UK shirt on? How cool. Thank you Skybus!