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October 31, 2011

Southern Caribbean Cruise 2011

The ship we went on was the Carnival Dream. It's the newest Carnival ship as of yet and I believe its the biggest they have so far.

After a brutal red-eye flight and being up for more than 24 hours....we finally made it onto our cruise. You can clearly see how tired I was but we were totally excited to start our adventure!. :)

Day 1: Here is the view of Port Canaveral from our ship

As we were pulling away from the pier there was this cool beach with all kinds of RV hookups. I was thinking how cool it would be to camp here. I spotted this lifeguard station and thought of Jordan...how cool would it be to lifeguard here right?

This is our cute little home away from home. Cabin #9225...complete with turn down service, chocolates and the towel elephant. You gotta love cruising!

On deck 5 they have all these cool overhangs. Some are lounge/dining areas, some are hot tubs and this was in one of them. A huge life-sized chess set. Here is Matt hangin with the queens.

Here is the Lido deck on our ship. Carnival Dream. They were doing a limbo contest.

This is the Lobby Atrium with the glass staircase. You can see on the platform there is a piano where there was a constant live performance.

This is one of the cool water slides on our ship. It was "the tunnel" a toilet bowl kind of slide where you would swirl around and then it spit you out the bottom. NO...I didn't try this but Matt did and gave it a thumbs up!

This is the view of our dining room from our table.

Here is my yummy sweet n sour shrimp our first night in the dining room. YUMMY!

March 27, 2011

I'm Sailing Away

Matt and I were lucky enough to take a cruise to Mexico this March. We are stuck in this same itinerary and this time, even sailed on the same ship. We just really love this one and you can't beat the price.

Here I am in the glass elevators in the center of the ship

Posing at the top of the stairs

Matt with the hottie at the end of the hall

The Arch at Land's End in Cabo San Lucas. No matter how many times I have been here, its beauty still takes my breath away each time I see it. I

This is a cowboy putting on a show at a beach bar in Cabo. It was spring break while we were there so it was a little on the crazy side with all the college kids.

All along the beach in Puerto Vallarta there are these amazing sand sculptures. This time, we were lucky enough to see them working on one of them.

Here is another sand sculpture

Matt on the streets of Vallarta

Here is one of Matt's favorite things about Mexico. He is in heaven with his fresh guacamole! :)

And this is one of MY favorite parts of cruising. They have the BEST soft serve ice cream and the "bad" news is....you can get it whenever you want!

Matt and I at dinner

Arrrrrggggghhhhhh

Dinner time again

I'm enjoying one of my very favorite desserts of all time. Grand Marnier Souffle. The best thing EVER!!!!

Ahhhhh.....it just doesn't get any better than sailing away with the one you love!

January 7, 2011

The happiest place on Earth!

Jordan & Brayden in Vegas

Makayla, Jordan & Brayden on their night out in Vegas.

You probably get this a lot. This isn't the real Caesar's Palace is it? Did, umm... did Caesar live here?

Umm....well.....yeah....what can I say? It's Vegas?

The boys

Makayla with....umm....that one guy

First night in California Disneyland was closed because it was at capacity so we headed to California Adventures. This is California Screamin, Mady's first ride of the trip. She LOVED it!

All strapped in and ready to go!

Here is the bug family photo at Disneyland's It's Tough To Be A Bug.

Here is the "other Riddle bug family"

No trip to Disneyland is complete without this picture!

Walking down main street Disney with the big Christmas tree in the background.

Getting ready to ride Big Thunder Mountain Railroad!

Kind scuurd!

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Tiny girl meets jumbo corndog. To my surprise she actually ate the entire thing!

I believe this was Jordan's 2nd jumbo corndog. (one of MANY that he ate while we were there)

Me and the boys checking out the wait time app on my phone. We were trying to come up with a game plan.

So as we were sitting at lunch we looked over and found Brayden tickling his ear with this clover. We couldn't resist getting a picture. HA HA

Getting ready to ride the matterhorn. It's all smiles here but Mady ended up in tears during this ride because her loving, wonderful brother told her that 7 people had died while on this ride. (((sigh))) Ya gotta love brothers.