Off the cruise and seeing alligators by Everglades in Florida

On our drive to the airport to go home, we saw alligators on the side of the freeway behind a fence and went on a short hike.

Ethan lost his first tooth

Ethan lost his first tooth on Jared's birthday as well. He has his first one pulled, so that doesn't count does it? So the tooth fairy visited him while on the ship.

4th and last port: Roatan, Honduras

We went to Roatan on Jared's birthday. What a great birthday present to be able to be on a cruise! We hired a tour guide who took us to an iguana farm and to the beach. We got to drink a real coconut, stopped by some souvenir shops, got to hold a little monkey (that was Madeline's favorite part and snorkeling)

Madeline had her hair done in braids and beads by a local.

3rd port: Belize and cave tubing :)

We used cavetubing.bz, which was a really great tour company that we would recommend to anyone going to visit Belize. Very personable, helpful and good deal for what you get.

Getting our gear to cave tube: helmet with flashlight, life jackets and tubes.

Getting ready to get in the water

Our family chaining up to go into the caves

After the cave tubing, they brought us to a place to eat. They served a yummy lunch with chicken and beans and rice with soda pop in glass containers. They had my favorite - Fanta red cream.

2nd port: Cozumel, Mexico and trip to Tulum - The Mayan Ruins

The Ruins were beautiful to see, although it could've been a better day. It was raining, so we had to buy overpriced ponchos that broke - Jared's broke completely, so he got soaked. The ferries over to Tulum were terrible. Lots of people got sick on them because of the rocky waves, including Ethan and myself and it was 40 minutes long. I wouldn't have gone and paid the money for the Carnival tour had I known what the day would be like. We had to buy t shirts for the kids because they were soaked. We only had peanuts, chips and water to eat and no time to stop for lunch or go to the beach. We got back late - like 7pm for dinner. We look happy in the pictures though at least and it was nice to see the ruins.