my first of many desserts: two different types of cake while waiting for our cabin to be ready. For those wondering, we got a triple on the first level. It meant a lot of climbing stairs to offset the food.
Our first day trip off the boat was to an island off of Honduras. Excellent snorkling. We saw a ton of fish and coral. And yes, that's a coconut next to me that I drank.
This is the boat we were on. It's like an apartment building on the sea. 15 total stories tall!
The second day, we went to Belize. The highlight of the whole trip was this: a series of caves that have been carved out of limestone. We'd hired a tour guide to drive us there (don't ask me where. I didn't arrange anything) and kayak through the flooded caves. The Mayans had used the caves in their worship as a representation of the underworld. At least according to the guide, and he seemed like he knows.
The entrance into the cave. It's super wide in some places, and shallow enough, an adult could walk.
At the Mayan ruins in Belize.
We also went to Mexico, where one friend went scuba diving while the other friend and I went to a dolphin park and swam with manatees. It was crazy cool. I don't have access to the pics at the moment, so I'll have to add them later.
Some of the fancy food we had on the boat. This is a crab cake with a guacamole-ish sauce on the side. There was a lot of fancy fancy food on the boat, as well as a 24/7 pizza, a burger place, and a taco place. Nevermind the buffet.
And then I came back home to a sick kid, a tired husband, laundry and real life.
I also got laid off. According to them, they needed more than the part time position I was filling. And my "priority has to be with my family", so there you go. It was sort of out of the blue. They hadn't
