cruisin' along

That's right! For the honeymoon, we headed on a seven day cruise around the Caribbean.
besides the happy honeymooners, Daddy, Starri, Manda and Michael were also along for the ride.

We left Miami Saturday, and cruised all night to our first stop at Half Moon Cay, an island in the Bahamas that the cruise line owned, so it was just the cruisers on the beach.

One of the only pictures of Shan pre-sunburn

Yes. Shan did proceed to get one of the worlds worst sunburns on this beach. But before that, we did have a great time swimming and hanging out on the beach before getting back on the boat to float over to St. Thomas. (Luckily, we had a sea day in between, so Shan could sort of recover from is 12th degree burns).

Maegan's Bay Beach, one of the top 10 most beautiful beaches in the world

(check out that awesomely splotchy sunburn that Shan is sporting)

St. Thomas was another hang out on the beach day, and a little shopping before boating on over to San Juan, Puerto Rico. We did a lot more site seeing in PR than the other locations, mostly because there wasn't a swimmable beach there, but also because there were these great old forts there that used to encircle all of San Juan. Shan loved checking out all of the old structures, and look out towers.

Shan and I at the fort

View from the lookout tower

That brings us to my favorite, and least favorite part of the trip all rolled into one.


Grand Turk. I have wanted to see Turks and Caicos pretty much since I came out of the womb, so I was SO excited to see it for reals. We had arranged to go on an excursion at T&C that included a catamaran ride, to snorkel at a reef for an hour,
before getting back on the "party boat" which included drinks (and, unfortunately, drunken dancing...)


and a little beach time on a private beach,


before taking us back to the main beach...where I proceeded to not hold down all that rum punch I'm seen slamming in a few of the previous pictures. While I was paying for not eating enough to counteract the alcohol consumption, my new hubby was out scouting some real estate for us (I wish!)
Before he dragged (because I couldn't walk) me back to the boat, so that we could finish up our trip and wind up back in MIA.

Check out Shan's AWESOME leg burns

(yes, they still look like that almost a month later)

Overall, we had a great time. We did learn that we're not necessarily cruise people, as we enjoyed being on the beach more than boat activities. We didn't really partake of any of the awesomeness on the boat, except for the karaoke most nights. We do plan to try to return to T&C for our 5 year anniversary, where I can hopefully actually enjoy it, not in a drunken stupor.

I'll end with this; because it just seems fitting:

Yes, this is probably the MOST pictures Shan and I have ever had taken together, with the exception of our wedding.

Thanks to Starri Nation for the pictures!