San Juan and Sail Away

This is the 4th cruise our family has taken, and seriously it never gets old! Cruising is my favorite way to take a vacation and I think mostly this is because you are able to see so many different places and experience so many different activities and it is all so easy! Love it!!

This cruise was no exception and totally lived up to my expectations. (The only thing that would have made this vacation absolutely perfect would have been if Tyler would have been able to join us. His spring break from college was 2 weeks earlier.)

We took a Southern Caribbean cruise and visitied some amazing places: San Juan, St. Thomas, St. John's, Dominica, Grenada, Bonaire, and Aruba!

amazing, breathtaking, beautiful

This cruise we sailed out of San Juan, Puerto Rico. We flew out on Saturday (March 26th), a day early, which gave us time to explore the beautiful city, specifically Old San Juan.



We stayed at the Sheraton Old San Juan Hotel which was a nice hotel in a beautiful location and is walking distance to some amazing historical sites.

Sunday morning we started out day out with a wonderful brunch buffet in the Palio restaurant in our hotel.

We sat out on the terrace and enjoyed the views and the warm sunshine. This was a perfect way to start our vacation!!!

After brunch we left the hotel to go explore the Old San Juan area.

I am so glad that we took the time to do this as it was such a beautiful area with rich history. This was maybe my all time favorite walk ever.



View of the "Fountain Raices". This was a beautiful sculpture honoring San Juan's roots.

The city wall "La Mualla" was built from 1539-1782. It's main purpose was to defend the city against enemy attacks.

We walked around a corner and saw people, lots and lots of people flying kites. There were hundreds of kites flying in the sky which made for an amazing view. {These pictures do not even begin to capture what we saw.}


And then we headed to "El Morro" which is Puerto Rico's best known fortress and was designed to guard the entrance to San Juan bay. Construction on this was started in 1539 and took 250 years to finish.

Taking a break and sipping my first margarita of the week. :)

The quaint little streets of Old San Juan.

I felt like we could have spent another whole day walking around and taking pictures, there was just so much to see! But we needed to board the cruise ship- and the boys were very anxious to do that!!

This picture on the ship at the Muster Station makes me laugh- Jake totally does not look like he is enjoying this! :)

Bon Voyage!

vacation in words

We got home early, early this morning from a week-long vacation in the southern Caribbean.

It was an amazing week of beautiful places, warm weather, fun adventures and great family time.

Today was spent unpacking, doing a mountain of laundry, a much needed trip to the gym, and a major grocery shopping. Tomorrow I am going to start going through our 1300+ pictures that we took and I hoping to get some vacation posts up very soon. :)

project 365 {65-71}

Day 65

{March 6th}

Jake preparing to leave for the Deca State Tournament.

{Deca is a business and marketing competition.}

He had a busy week qualifiing and particitpating in two State Tournaments.

He missed 4 days of school this week between both tournaments.

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Day 66

{March 7th}

The "rink rat" t-shirt from the State Hockey Tournament.

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Day 67

{March 8th}

Jake's medal from the Section Final game win.

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Day 68

{March 9th}

The send off to the State Hockey Tournament.

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Day 69

{March 10th}

Game 1 at the State Hockey Tournament.

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Day 70

{March 11th}

Game 2 at the State Hockey Tournament.

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Day 71

{March 12th}

Game 2 at the State Hockey Tournament.

Consolation Champs!

project 365 {57-64}

Day 57

{February 26th}

Jake's team winning the Section Semi-Finals.
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Day 58

{February 27th}

Drew had another amazing game- and scored a hat trick.
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Day 59

{February 28th}

Swimsuit shopping. And I actually found a suit on my second trip out! :)
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Day 60

{March 1st}

Movie night out with the hubby.

We went to see The Kings Speech. Loved it!!!
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Day 61

{March 2nd}

A pretty card ~that reminds me of our trip to Paris.
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Day 62

{March 3rd}

Love.

I am really proud of my self in that I have only had one of these favorite Easter treats (so far). :)
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Day 63

{March 4th}

Section Finals----Win!!!***

Day 64

{March 5th}

Mmmm...Chinese take-out.