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Travel Days: Caribbean Cruise – Roatan, Honduras

Finally sharing Day 3 of the Cruise! You can find Days 1-2 here and more Travel posts here!

The third day of the Cruise started by arriving in Roatan, Honduras. This was the stop I was most excited about since I have been to all the other places (minus the stop in Belize that is a man made island and not really Belize). As part of our planning we had chosen to only do excursions in Roatan and Cozumel.

We had breakfast on the boat and look at what a view we had! We had a few hours until our excursion started so we took our time.

They had this little market set up with tourist shops and stalls. We walked around, got some drinks, took plenty of photos and then headed back toward the meeting area.

Excursion: Gumbalimba Park

After a not too far ride (about 45 mins) We arrived at the park where we got to walk a beautiful trail, play with birds (not me, I don’t like birds at all) and make friends with some monkeys and then lay on the beach for a while. It was HOT which I loved but poor AJS turns into a lobster in the sun so SPF 1000 if you do this excursion please! We enjoyed the water being so warm, until AJS found a jellyfish and then I was not touching the water.

I would definitely recommend this excursion to people as something fun to do, especially if you have kids because there are a few different things to do!

Of Course, now I have to share a ridiculous amount of photos!!

We are so happy that we did that excursion and we were exhausted and ready for another night on the boat. We had sushi and drinks that night then back to our rooms to relax!

One of my favorite things about these kind of vacations is the animals in the room when you back!!

I’m clearly easily amused!

Have you been on this cruise or done a similar excursion?

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Travel Days: Universal Studios On New Year’s Day!

I think I have started and stopped typing this post about 8 times now but since I want to stick to posting about my travels here we are in December talking about New Years…but if you are looking for a fun trip for NYE then this could help!

As I mentioned in my previous post Travel Days: Orlando – New Years Eve we had already decided that we would leave Universal Studios for New Years Day. We didn’t know that it was going to be in the 50s and raining though!

I was most excited for Harry Potter everything but A was not….I know I am not sure how we make it work either. That being said I made us get up way early and head there…only to find that it was practically empty! Apparently people in Florida think 50s is too cold to be out all day. I kept checking the times for rides thinking they would fill up they never did, we actually rode every single ride we wanted to ride and the longest we waited for anything was about 25 minutes.

We started on one side and then took the Hogwarts train over to the other side…did the full loop and came back. At one point A asked me if the train was the only way to get back….I said yes knowing full well we could walk back but I couldn’t miss the chance!!

Anyway…here are some photos!


Trave Days: Carribean Cruise: Miami + Day at Sea

A couple weeks ago I decided to finally start sharing our Caribbean Cruise from this past June. In that post I talked about how we decided on the cruise and tried to book it while saving ourselves some money! You can see that post at Travel Days: Caribbean Cruise Pt. 1!

We decided to fly into Miami a day early to avoid rushing from Airport to the port on the same day of the cruise which was Sunday-Sunday! the added benefit was the flights were about $200 cheaper overall because we didn’t fly in the day of.

We booked a room at the Holiday Inn Port of Miami and we are very happy we did. The hotel is literally across the bridge from the port and across the street from a cute little shopping/market area Bayside Marketplace. So we got to walk around and explore a bit there when we arrived and before we headed to the port Sunday.

We had some lunch at La Camaronera and then dinner at CVI.CHE 105 because we wanted to try a place walking distance with drinks!

Then we got some rest and the next day we headed to the port and hopped on a big boat! We got settled into our room, got some dinner and relaxed.

Our first day was at Sea so we spent the morning at the pool getting sun and drinking frozen drinks…then we went to play Bingo and tried a beer and whiskey pairing class. We explored the boat and then got dressed up and had dinner and more drinks!

I loved coming back to our room to find the animal towels!
So that is the the beginning our cruise!

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