2022 Spring Break! A cruise to remember!
It was an awesome week at sea. Grace and Charis fully embraced their first cruise experience! The weather was beautiful, the excursions were amazing first time adventures for all of us, the food was wonderful, and the activities the girls found around the boat were a delight.
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| Carnival Dream Ship |
Day 1 After meeting all Covid protocols we loaded on the the Carnival Dream in Galveston, Tx.
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| On our deck! Room 7277 |
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| Deck 11, in the shade with a beautiful view. |
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Charis was selected by our waiter to dance with the staff during the dinner entertainment. She was AWESOME.. except when she almost knocked over a waitress carrying a larger tray of food. |
For Charis, a highlight was the friends she made at the CircleC Teen Club. Her school friend Bree was on board with her family, so Charis and Bree took to the club and made new friends everyday. Through out the week the club offered many activates including arts and crafts, a prom, and scavenger hunts. It was a fun place to hang out and enjoy. She also LOVED the towel animals that appeared in our room daily. There was even a "towel animal zoo" on the main deck one day!
Grace's favorite boat activities included the comedy clubs and discovering the Art Gallery. On the first day the gallery offered a scavenger hunt followed by an auction in the afternoon. After that she was hooked! She learned about the different artists whose work was showcased on the ship and was on a first name bases with all of the docents by the time we left. She acquired three small pieces of art and during one of their raffles she won a larger piece of art!
Day 3 - Costa Maya was the perfect first port for us. We enjoyed the shops and found a quiet beach area to hang out and swim in the ocean fed pools. It was sweet time of sun and fun.
Day 4 Belize was a beautiful adventure! Before this trip we had never heard of cave tubing. In fact it sounded a little scary to me and I was not sure I wanted to take my entire family into a cave in a foreign country... but I am so glad I did! It was amazing!
After taking a boat off of the boat, and a 1 hour bus ride, we arrive at Crystal Cave and were grouped with another family. We received our lifejackets, helmets with lights, and tubes and started on a 30 minute hike through the rainforest! Our guide "DJ" showed us groups of leaf carver ants, and termite homes ... he even ate a termite (minty and smokey flavored) (no thanks!)!
At the cave system we swam a little and then loaded up and floated. We spent about two hours looking at the cave formations, waterfalls, birds, and bats.
Day 5 Cozumel Dolphin Experience and Snorkeling - Up close and personal with dolphins! In Cozumel we visited Dolphinaris. This was a first time experience for our entire family. As we stood in the water, the dolphins swam to us and we were able to pet them, dance with them, and we even received a "kisses on the cheek". We could not take our cameras to the pools so there are few pictures of this amazing experience. Later we took to the ocean pools for snorkeling. We saw loads of beautiful fish and sea urchins.
Day 6 was a fun day at sea. We rested, enjoyed the meals,
Evenings on the Boat. After our daily adventures we enjoyed all of the evening entertainment options including; Variety Shows, Comedy Shows, Dress Up nights, doing puzzles in the library, movies on deck, dancing on the deck, playing putt putt golf....
Family Photos on Elegant Dining Evening
BIGGEST SURPRISES: we ran into 7 different families that we knew on the ship! Including the Deel Family from Melissa. Kenny Deel was Scott's church and fishing friend "back in the day". It was delight to run into him and his wife Lauren.
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