Anniversary Cruise Part 2

7:47 PM by Heather
The cruise was supposed to have 3 stops, Nassau, then Coco Cay, then Key West. We had to skip Coco Cay because the weather that day was too windy to safely tender. Instead we had a "day at sea", which turned out to be a lovely relaxing time. We did salsa dancing, played win-a-free-cruise bingo (we lost), and napped excessively. Can you ask for anything more?


The wind was strong, but we couldn't help but go outside to check out the sunset. Heather also got outside earlier that day to take a run around the ship. It was so big only 3.4 laps made up a mile--bigger then a football field!


Our first site after leaving the boat in Key West was this cool building. It was surrounded by statues of real looking people, much like Madame Tussads.


Our view from our window in Key West. We never did find out what the cool tiny island was, but we want to live on it!


The southernmost house in Key West.


Hungry caterpillars in the Butterfly Conservatory.


Notice the butterfly on the orchids!


Cool looking little guy.


Pretty blue.


There were birds there, too, including teeny tiny babies.


These orchids smelled liked lemons!


A cool looking rainbow bird.


It took forever for us to find one of these guys who'd stay still for a picture.


It's supposed to be good luck if one lands on you.

Pretty water in Key West. It was a great sailing day.


Us at the southernmost beach.


Tennessee Williams swam there every day! See the sign says so, and signs never lie.


Getting some much needed sun.


The sunset our final night on the cruise, leaving Key West.


It was a lovely trip, we are lucky to have been able to go. And lucky to have had 5 wonderful years together!
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Anniversary Cruise Part 1

7:14 PM by Heather
This January we celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary. Hard to believe it's been this long! We wanted to do something a little extra special for this one so we took a 4 night cruise in the Bahamas. Our boat was pretty big, 14 stories, and held almost 3,000 passengers.




First stop was Nassau. Starbucks are everywhere!




The view of our ship over the buildings. Those boats are big.


Cop on a box. Hee!


Lots of celebrities have homes in Nassau (technically on "Paradise Island"). We saw Oprah's two houses, Michael Jordan's, Tiger Wood's, Charlie Chaplin's former home, and below was the home of Elvis!


Blue blue water.


Us on the way to our snorkeling excursion. We had a nice ride to reggae music.


More relaxing on the boat ride. It was the warmest day of our trip, in the mid 70's, so we were soaking it up.


Greg getting geared up. The water was pretty cold--we knew we were in for it when we our guides put on wetsuits to get in the water. Still we saw lots of beautiful fish and coral.


Heather bundled up on the ride home. Those 70 degrees didn't feel so warm after being in that cold water!



Greg and Senor Frogs after our snorkeling. Our ship is in the background.


Us on our formal night. While everyone was getting dressed up for inaugural balls back home we were getting decked out in the Carribean. Not so bad!


I love towel animals!


Heather loves cheesy touristy photos, Greg is giving his editorial comment to that...


Heather sitting in her window staring out at the view.


What she was looking at.


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Key West Butterfly Conservatory

5:34 PM by Heather
Well we are back from our 5 year anniversary cruise. We had a lovely time and cannot wait to try other cruises and destinations. We have a lot of photos to put up, but in the meantime, enjoy a few short videos of our favorites spot--the Butterfly Conservatory in Key West. The videos barely do it justice, it was like walking into fairy land with 100's of butterflies around you at any given time.
















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New Year's Eve

3:04 PM by Heather
We went to our good friends Debbie and Brooke's house for New Years eve. It was casual and laid back, a nice way to spend the day this time around. There is never any lack of food at the house, or any lack of new things to try (ask us sometime about horseradish-peanut butter crackers). Brooke is great in the kitchen and made soft pretzels from scratch:



Our fabulous hosts Debbie and Brooke:


Waiting for Midnight, Heather's holding on by the skin of her teeth.


In addition to food, Brooke also made sure no one was lacking in drink. He was so thoughtful he even provided Heather with seltzer in a champagne glass for midnight:


Debbie tries to get a self-portrait of her and Heather. Now if Heather had been taking it her long monkey arms would've gotten them both in, no problem:


Melissa and Heather flip through a gag Christmas gift that turned out to be pretty popular reading during the party:


We remembered to turn on Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin just after midnight:

Greg and Heather, HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
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A little more on Christmas

2:52 PM by Heather
We finally downloaded the other pictures from our camera so here's a bit more of our holiday in Florida. First is Greg having a nap in the most excellent rocking chair ever. Yep, it's the same chair Heather was in that had the dogs near by:


Pat and Otto played tug together. He was in such good spirits down there. Notice Greg in the background working. He had to work almost every day down there, but at least he got to sit out on the lanai with his laptop:




For Christmas day we went to Heather's brother's house. Betisa's dad and our good family friend Pat chatting away. They talked for quite a bit:




The feast! A turkey, two ducks, beef wellington, quiche, sweet potato casserole, and not shown were roasted veggies, chestnut stuffing, cheese, and all the desserts Betisa prepared:


The table was beautiful and elegant:


Aaron is carving the ducks:


The family stampedes for the food:


Post dinner food coma and relaxing moment:
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