Bahamas Trip Continued

Next we went to Cococay, Royal Caribbean's private island. We ate a lot of food and played on the water toys. And I bet you can tell which posts Chelsea puts up and which posts Michael puts up. :)

Our last stop on the cruise was Key West. I don't really know what this was, but it looked really funny and we had to have a picture of it. We went shopping again and I bought my first pair of sunglasses-that was big! We ended up renting a scooter after our shopping spree and we scooted around the island for the rest of the day.

Chels loved the pink taxi, we hit the southermost point of the continental U.S. and took a break on the beach.

Here's the scooter we rented for the day!
And this picture is for my family. Hopefully you get the joke.
Notice the little "BOOM TK"

That was a little portion of our honeymoon. There are so many pictures and this takes way too much time to put more than this. But we loved every second of it. I'm just getting used to this whole blog thing again so bear with me and Chels if there are any crazy posts. I'll leave you with this as we sail off into the sunset!

Honeymoon to the Bahamas

This was our pre-cruise emergency practice. Not the exciting part of a cruise.

Our first stop was in Nassau, Bahamas. We went shopping for a while, which was kind of a waste of our time, but then we headed over to the amazing Atlantis. We bought a day pass and played on the island for the rest of the day. We went swimming, floated down the lazy river, slid down the water slides, watched them feed the Manta Rays, looked at the sharks, and watched the dolphins. We jumped in the taxi back to the boat and we were some of the last on the boat. We got the boarding time a little wrong, so they were hurrying us along. :)

Yea for the Bahamas!

Fossil Springs

We went camping at Fossil Springs as our first outing in Arizona. We decided to stay overnight so we packed up big 'ole backpacks (bad idea) and took off. It was a quick drive up to Strawberry and a fairly pleasant 4 mile hike down while the sun was setting. We began seeing the springs bubbling up out of the ground and quickly set up camp. We spent the rest of the night walking up the river and partially getting lost on the way back. Next morning we headed to the dam and big waterfall!
Here, you see Michael to the left dangling in the air on a rope swing. The water was crystal clear and oh so clean due to the fact that its all fresh spring water. A bit chilly but nice and refreshing! To the right of the people there is a little cave underwater you can swim through and behind where I'm taking the picture there is a big rock you can jump off and a sweet big cave you can swim into. Just when we were about to leave we got the guts to jump off the dam. It was one of the funnest jumps we've done! It didn't hurt at all! You jump into where the waterfall is landing so all the bubbles create a nice cushion and the water sort of pulls you through and pushes you out so there is no slapping of the body! I'd do it again in a heartbeat.


Except, next time we won't be staying overnight...and we'll go a different way because hiking back out was pretty awful. It was hot and straight up the whole 4 miles. With packs. Awesome. Not. And we couldn't ever stop more than a minute or else the bugs would eat us alive. They did anyway. Mike looked like he had chicken pocks for a week...from tiny knat size flies! It was gorgeous down in the springs though and we're looking to go again at the beginning of August.