Belize and comin' home

Our last stop before docking in Fort Lauderdale was Belize. We docked, found our tour guide (who Tyler had just e-mailed the night before), and got in a van that took us way into the jungle. He was just going to take us cave tubing but we had time to do zip lining too. Zip lining was fun, but I probably wouldn't do it again. We then got into our suits, grabbed the tubes, and hiked a while to start cave tubing. There were several huge groups doing the same thing but for us it was just Tyler, me, and our two guides. We sat in our tubes, grabbed the feet of the person behind us, and floated down the river in a train. We had lights on our heads so we could see inside the enormous cave we floated though. After the cave we floated through the jungle and got to swim around before ending our journey. It was lots of fun. Too bad we didn't get any pictures of our adventures!





Proof that we were actually in Belize:





The only monkey we saw on the whole trip


The fun people we ate dinner with every night and hung out with on the ship (minus one couple)




Farewell, Enchantment of the Seas!

The trip home was an adventure in and of itself. We were supposed to fly from Fort Lauderdale to New York to Long Beach to Salt Lake, but again the Long Beach to Salt Lake flight was completely booked. Rachelle got creative for us and figured out a way to get us home: fly from New York to Vegas, where Tyler's parents happened to be. They picked us up from the airport and we went straight to the UNLV/Utah football game (the reason they were in Vegas). Tyler was thrilled to say the least. After the game we rode to La Verkin where we stayed the night and then they drove us home from there. Crazy! I was so anxious to see the girls by that point. I missed them so much! We got home more than 14 hours later than planned, but everything worked out. A gigantic thanks to everyone who helped with Ada and Kate. They were juggled around about eight different times, but they're good kids and handled things well. Kate was especially clingy for almost two weeks after got back, the poor thing. We were extremely fortunate to be able to go and have everything work out. It was a trip for the ages!

Tyler and his enormous piece of pizza at JFK