Vacation part 2

So our cruise was amazing!  I loved every minute on the ship, I had really been worried about motion sickness but I never felt even the slightest bit ill the whole time.  Now let me tell you something you might not know about cruising, the staff of the ship act like you are someone famous!  Really you are treated like Royalty for a whole week.  Every time we left our cabin our stateroom attendant Michael would come in and straiten up, like 5 times a day.

We left the ship early on Saturday morning and off we hurried to the shuttle bus and back to the airport to catch our flight to the Bahamas.  Our plane was not much bigger than a tin can, it even had propellers on the sides, I like big planes this was very far from big.  So we all crammed in to the "little plane" and we were off!

We landed in the Bahamas with in 45 minutes.  As we entered customs things get interesting the man helping us with our bags being that we are such a big group, 2 wheel chairs, 2 strollers, 3 small kids with over loaded back packs and 4 other adults all pulling carry on luggage he took us to a special window were an over sized woman sat filing her nails.  As we approached she made a funny face at me and then went on to say "I can not believe you have brought these people to my line you have ruined my whole day"  at this point I look around because I know  she is not talking to me like that, HD kind of got a chuckle out of that....  Now let me say she was not saying this jokingly she was saying this with the chicken head bob'n back and forth she was mad we had interrupted her nail filing session, I could not believe it!  Could not!  I still can't.  We finished our documents while she huffed and puffed at us and then we ran off to collect our bags.

We had prepaid for transportation from the airport to the resort Atlantis.  We got on our bus, all eleven of us and 2 other couples.  Again I am shocked the woman driving the bus starts telling us about the local fair and she starts using crude humor, we did not laugh, my 3 kids are on this bus and she is talking about sex and saying things that are totally inappropriate, now I am huffing and puffing and sighing loudly but she just talked louder.  Did you know they drive on the wrong side of the road in the Bahamas?  They do.  As we pulled up to the resort she says check under your seat and make sure you have your purses and wallets because big mama does not return things left on her bus I will be having a party tonight....  Then get this she wanted a tip she hoovered around like she would get a tip for driving us now mind you we paid over 100$ for our 15 minuted drive.  I looked at her and told her strait up the only tip you are gonna get is "not to tell jokes about stealing from me if I leave something on your bus!" I then walked away!  

The resort was huge and it was beautiful!  We hurried inside to check in, that went smoothly.  I will tell you more about Atlantis and the people of the island in a few days.... 

My Summer Vacation

Just click the button above to be directed to all the fun!  Kristen has been planing and planing for this fun party for months!  She has door prizes and you will have fun just checking out all the vacation memories of all our blog friends.

I wanted to share a few of our summer travel memories with you today, I will start with Fort Lauderdale.

We woke up to this beautiful sunrise each and every morning!  It was around 85 degrees out side at 6am when we woke up.

Luke enjoyed covering Daisy in sand.

Reese wasn't sure about the sand.

Tate was sure, sure he didn't like it!

Bo was very happy to be on vacation!

We went to a Polynesian Dinner Theater, it is was not as fun as we had thought it would be, it was very loud and Luke got a really bad head ache.  And for a family of 5 it cost over $250, which made me about choke to death....

Here is a lovely picture of our children in the belly of a shark.  This is at Cabala's.  My sweet husband, bless his heart, thinks that we have to go to every major hunting store in the country.

HD made friends with the Pool Guy and he gave us fresh coconuts daily to drink.

My 3 guys looking for shells

I would love to tell you that I was fishing, but I was just posing for this picture with HD's new fishing pole.

Luke loved the fish that HD caught

This is the kids trying not to get dirty

Our last day in Ft Lauderdale 

Then after the gas prices never came down we decided to have a Staycation which means that we stayed home for vacation and we had our whole family come for the 4th of July.

My mother

My niece C and Daisy

This is HD's Mama

This is my Father-in-law 

This is my sister-in-law Jess

Look at the look on my nephew R and Luke's face after hours of the WII

My Grandpa and Grandma

Ruby Wife and her husband and children joined us for a lovely 4th

This is HD and his baby brother Zack

My mom with Bo and Daisy

Here is our soldier girl Regan with her nieces and nephews

Here I am with Jess, we stayed up until about 2 am talking

All the kids

TBM and TBD with their babies at their first family bonfire

Oh Marshmallows are so good with the ones you love!

I hope you have enjoyed my a walk through my summer!  Don't forget to go check out all the fun at We Are THAT Family.

Vacation pictures

On our last day we took family pictures.

My sweet boys.

Daisy and I.  Look how beautiful the scenery is here!

My Family.

It started raining right after this picture.

Bo loves the water, he could swim all day!

Now Tate, he did not like the water but as long as he had his thumb he was happy!

Daisy found a plastic fish in the pool.

Here is my dark tanned, Luke.

Here I am trying to cool off. Like how I crop out my legs?  It makes for a much better picture really it does.

Bo found so beautiful shells.

Daisy and I tryed to find some shells too.

Luke is holding the only fish we caught the whole week.

Reese taking a little nap in the beach tent.

My beautiful girl playing in the sand.

I'm BAAAAACK!

We had the most amazing time!  We swam at the resort pool we ate lunches in the cabana we swam in the ocean, built sand castles walked on the beach every day.  I loved Ft Lauderdale!  The water was warm and beautifully clear.  Daddy and I went snorkeling at a reef which was a first for me, and that was great except the throwing my guts up over the side of the boat in front of 16 people I hope I never see again I got a little sick....  We ate dinner at some really wonderful restaurants too.  Every thing about our vacation was great!  My favorite part was being with Daddy all day, and spending time with our kids!  We love being with my Aunt Twice Blessed Mommy and Joe!  The babies are so sweet, we watched them one evening so Dana and Joe could go on a date, we took them out for ice cream, and I will say 5 kids was not so hard.  The reaction that people had was funny, people would stop and point at us, it was like we had 10 kids not 5....  But people love twins we got lots of attention!

I have a ton of unpacking to do so I will blog more later, it nice to be back home and I missed you all.

We woke up to this beautiful view out our window each morning!

Look what Daddy caught, I'll post more pictures later.