The Wedding Day

The biggest event in May was my little sisters wedding. Sean was in charge of taking some video so we didn't take to many pictures. So sad. I will have to get some from the photographer (or Josie). What was suppose to be a cold rainy day turned out to be the perfect day for a wedding. The dress, the ceremony, the food, it was all beautiful. Jack's favorite part was the chocolate fountain, he had chocolate from head to toe.

Congratulations Megan and Justin!!

New York City

Our cruise ended in Brooklyn. So we spent a couple of days doing a fast tour of New York City!!

Pulling into the city bright and early!

We spent the day walking through Central Park, finding and enjoying Magnolia Bakery, having a Gray's Papaya hot dog, going to Iron Man 2, shopping at a street fair, and walking through Times Square. Sarah H. took most of the pictures, so I don't have to much to show!

Times Square

We started the next day out with a HUGE muffin (or cupcake) from Crumbs Bakery.

Day 2 was spent riding the subway to Wallstreet, Ground Zero, shopping in Chinatown, having lunch in Little Italy, shopping at FAO Schwarz and walking around Rockefellar Plaza.

Matt and Sarah at Grand Central Station

George Washington patting Sean on the head, at Wall Street.

FAO Schwarz

It was a great vacation, tons of fun, I wish I was going again tomorrow. I just wish it had a better ending than me and Sarah ditching Sean and Matt at the ticket counter in JFK and butting our way through security to run all the way through the terminal to literally make it to the plane as they were closing the doors. It would have been nice for all four of us to make the flight. But I have no complaints. We all made it safe and sound!! Now to plan our next trip...I am thinking the Northwest...any suggestions??

Bermuda

The next port on our cruise was Bermuda. This was by far our favorite. Beautiful island!! We spent the day zooming around on our scooters. It was a blast! It took Matt and Sean awhile to get used to driving on the left hand side of the road though.

Our first stop of the day was Fort Scaur (when pronounced like a pirate it sounds much more fun). I thought it was a sort of creepy place, mostly because we were the only ones there, not to mention the long dark staircases and hallways.

After that was a stop at the lighthouse. I think it was Gibb's lighthouse, or something like that. It was the first lighthouse I had ever seen up close.

Then some shopping in the big city of Hamilton. The craziest part was driving on our scooters through a "backwards" round-about!

Our last stops of the day were three BEAUTIFUL bays. Jacobsen's Bay (seen below), Horseshoe Bay and Church Bay. They were all amazing!

Sarah got a little baggie of sand from almost every island. Here she is filling up her bag with the pink sand on Horseshoe Bay.

These two pictures were of us at Church Bay. This one was really infested with these little jellyfish called Portuguese Man of War. It was what kept us out of the water!!

Oops. Silly me.

Antigua

On Antigua our original plan was to find a beach, sit all day and relax. Boy did that idea flop. As soon as we stepped off the boat taxi drivers were yelling all around us, trying to get us to come and listen to their sales pitch. Finally after about the fourth one, we decided to just listen. After listening to his pitch we decided that what he was offering sounded like fun, so we took a tour of the island with a little beach time thrown in at the end!

Our first stop on the tour was their old fort. After this vacation I have realized that all of these little tropical islands have forts. And we saw all of them!

Matt and Sarah. Behind them is a bay where they filmed some of Pirates of the Caribbean.

Of course they had some local vendors at the Fort for me and Sarah to do some shopping.

The second stop was the Old Guardhouse which overlooked the docks.

Then, of course, the third stop was the Old Dockyard

I love old houses so I took a few pictures...

After we finished at the Old Dockyard we drove through their rain forest where he showed us all of the fruits they grow.

Can you see the bananas, they are kind of hiding...

After a fun day, we finally made it to the beach were we spent the rest of the afternoon!

St. Thomas

St. Thomas was our first port. We decided that it would be a good beach day. So we woke up early got a taxi, the driver decided to take us on the mountain path and show us the island, the roads were straight uphill it felt like the tropical version of San Fran. We eventually found ourselves on the beautiful Coki Beach. For the first couple hours we had it completely to ourselves!! It pays to wake up early, so much fun!!

Sarah and Matt Hale

Matt also turned the big 3-0 this year so we decided to do the trip together!!

Matt, Sarah and Sean did some snorkeling. According to what they told me there was a wall of fish that was just amazing to swim through. Fish everywhere.

This was the bar where the locals would hang out. Since we were positioned right in front of it (the only shade on the beach) we got a lot of offers for alcohol. One local who was smoking some weed claimed he was blowing the smoke in our direction in hopes of getting us high so we would buy some beer. So funny and annoying.

Iguanas were everywhere. This one was camped out on the walk way back to the boat.

I took the long way around the iguana. Sean thought it was funny.

Our first formal night!!

Old San Juan

For Sean's big birthday this year he really really wanted to go on a cruise! So after months of waiting and planning the day, well the night, finally came. After what felt like the longest flight in history, mainly because it was a red eye, we finally made it to Puerto Rico!

It didn't take long to realize we had made it somewhere tropical. One step out of the airport doors and the humidity hit fast!! Since we didn't have to board the boat until later in the evening we did a quick tour of Old San Juan.

Lots of walking through the city. It was a very pretty city, I just wish I was in a better mood to enjoy it more! I was sooooo sleepy!

The Old Fort