We had a fabulous time on our cruise! We left from Mobile on the Carnival Elation. It was a 5 night cruise (and the first 5 nights that I had ever left Lara...) and it was FABULOUS! We went to Cozumel and Calica, Mexico, had food at our every beckon call, and relaxed more than I think we ever had! It was a wonderful getaway!
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| Our first view of the ship! It was HUGE! |
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| Ready to step on board! |
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| My "sail-away" drink! Off to sea! |
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| Looking out the front of the boat... it was WINDY! |
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| Night 1 at dinner! We saw our Huntsville friends on board and they took this nice picture for us! :-) |
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| We had different towel creatures from our cleaning guy every night! So funny! |
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| Formal Night on the ship. |
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| A beautiful sunset at sea!! |
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| Just stepping onto the port in Cozumel! |
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| The AMAZINGLY blue water! Unbelievable! |
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| Waiting for our excursion to begin! |
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| About to head off in the beach buggy! |
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| Beautiful water we saw as we were driving along! |
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| It was DUSTY! |
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| The very tiny Mayan ruin. This was apparently a hurricane warning system that they had. There was a conch shell in the top that would sound if the wind reached a certain velocity... interesting, but only about 3 feet tall! :-) |
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| Alligators... eeek! |
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| On top of the tree house looking over the swamp on one side and the beautiful beach on the other! |
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| Paradise! |
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| Passengers in the beach buggy... I felt much safer when Lucas was driving.... |
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| The light house! |
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| About to go snorkeling... too bad we didn't have a waterproof camera! The fish and reef were pretty amazing! |
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| On top of the light house... it was a LONG climb up very tiny steep steps, but an awesome view! |
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| The water can't get much prettier than that! The port in Calica was just an industrial port, so nothing like Cozumel. We had to take a Van to get to our excursion site. For this excursion we were going to take an ATV tour, see a cave, swim in a natural cenote and snorkel again! This one was my favorite by far! SOOOO much fun! :-) |
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| The not very exciting cave... it would have been cool if they had let us explore a little... but they didn't! |
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| Lucas in his gear! ;-) |
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| In the cave! |
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| One of my favorite parts of the whole trip... This was beautiful and SOOO refreshing on a hot day! Apparently you can go cave diving from here. We had some goggles to go look down in the cave... I don't think cave diving would be for me... scary! |
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| The beach we ended up at! Just our little group on this whole beach (about 12 people!) |
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| Beautiful! |
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| About to go snorkeling again! This reef was WAY nicer than the other! We saw SOOOOOO many fish. Very cool! |
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| Heading back on my ATV! |
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| Lucas ready to go! And yes, the mask was definitely necessary! I think this might have been the dustiest place I've ever seen! We are already ready to plan our next trip! Next time I think we'll try to go with a group of people. It was a blast! |
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