Part of what I love about the girls' names is that they were both popular 100 years ago and many people with those names are now great-grandmas. Both names evoke a vision for me of sweet old ladies rocking away together on a porch. I pray Ella and Sadie will live meaningful lives full of love and will be enjoying each other on a front porch somewhere many years from now.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Cozumel-Cruise Day 3

We docked and got off the boat in Cozumel around 1pm and headed off to find a good deal on an excursion with locals. We had great success with this on our Alaskan cruise a few years ago so we chose not to book any (overpriced) excursions through the Ship and just bargain in Spanish instead :-) It worked out well and we paid about half the price for a glass bottom boat/snorkeling trip!


This picture totally doesn't capture how AMAZINGLY blue the water was-truly spectacular to look at-it almost seemed fake but I was reminded that untouched nature, God's best work, really is that amazing!

The fam, going about 60 mph on the tiny motor boat!

Here's a little video to give you an idea of what it was like on the boat.

Chris and I took turns jumping off the boat to snorkel. It was AWESOME. Seriously. Everything we saw in the aquarium the day before was inches away from us snorkeling in 3 different coral reefs. Ah-may-zing. It's so quiet and peaceful when your ears are under the water and it felt like a private viewing of these amazing creations. LOVED it. Definitely buying an underwater camera next time!

This was how Ella felt about snorkeling. She got in the water once but inhaled some salty ocean water and was DONE. She sat quite happily in the boat and ate cheetos and watched fish through the glass floor of the boat :-)

Being silly at lunch


I carried crayons and coloring books everywhere on this trip. A cantina in Cozumel was no exception :-)

Just too funny not to share

We shopped and walked around a bit in Cozumel also but Ella was losing her ability to behave well so it was nice to be able to take her back on the ship to rest.

Ella took this picture while we were relaxing on the boat that night :-) We also went to a big song/dance production that night called "Spirit of America" which was quite the spectacle and a first for Ella. She enjoyed it though and Chris and I had fun debating who in the show was good enough for American Idol and who'd get booed off ;-)

Onle one more cruise day left!

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