Hi friends!

Oh boy, after spending a week at sea level, eating lots of food, and only walking for exercise, let me just tell you that this morning’s hilly interval run back at 6000′ above sea level was ROUGH.  Rougher than I anticipated it would be.  (Could be due in part to the mild dizzy feeling I’ve had since getting home – like I’m still on the boat.  I didn’t have this issue the first time I went on a cruise.  I’m on the 4th day with it and crossing my fingers that it rights itself soon!  It’s like I put on my “sea legs” but then my “land legs” never showed up at baggage claim.  :) )

Here’s how dark it was at the start of the run this morning:

We were up with the deer this time around! But as is usually the case with running, it was great at the end.  It was a gorgeous sunrise, 55 degrees and I was happy to have been out in it.

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Some of you commented that you enjoyed seeing the pics from the trip – thanks for letting me know!  I LOVE to look at people’s travel photos.  Two of my Facebook friends recently posted pics from each of their different trips (one a tropical honeymoon and one a trip to London) and I just think it’s really fun to look through them.

Our second stop was CocoCay, Bahamas.  A couple of the cruise lines apparently have each purchased their own islands – I believe Disney has their own and I know Norwegian’s was right next to the one we were on.  CocoCay was previously known as Little Stirrup Cay before being purchased by Royal Caribbean.

With this stop, the ship can’t get in close so they anchor way out and then take you to the island by ferry. Being the early risers that we are, we were on the first ferry over.

Sunglasses and sunscreen – MUY IMPORTANTE.

Bye boat!  See ya after lunch!

Welcome to Coco Cay!

We wandered all around the little island to check it out and see where we most wanted to park ourselves for the day.

And ultimately picked a spot that had a little bit of shade.  It was HOT even at 8:30 in the morning.

We’d anticipated renting a couple of mats to just float around on in the water.  But we saw WAY too many of these jellyfish everywhere in the water and didn’t want to get stung.  Do any of you guys have any experience swimming with these?

But I wasn’t at all scared of the iguanas.

I tried to convince this one that he would like Colorado and my dogs if he wanted to hop in my bag.

The turquoise water is just beyond words.  Absolutely breathtaking.

After the lunch that the cruise line served on the beach, we hung around in hammocks.  I need a T-shirt made that says “I went to the Bahamas and all I got were these stupid freckles”. I don’t really TAN.  I just get pink and freckly!

We decided that some air conditioning sounded good so we took the ferry back to the boat in the afternoon.  We watched a bellyflop contest at the pool and had a drink, then got cleaned up for dinner.  The sun really zaps your energy, so shortly after dinner we were ready to call it a night!

Especially since the next day was the stop I was most excited for:  KEY WEST!!  (Key Lime Pie, wahooo!)

– Shari B. =)

 

 

 

 

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