February 2018 (cont.)

February 2018 (continued)

We wanted to cruise with all five of us sisters and our one brother and his wife, however only three of us sisters were able to get away on this February Cruise. 

Norma, Erma, Sharon.  We are the three oldest sisters in our family.

 On our drive to the Galveston Cruise Terminal, we stopped in to see our brother Don and his wife Beth.  Sure wish they were going with us but they had just been on a cruise celebrating Don's 70th birthday so decided not to join us on this cruise.

Sharon has never been on a cruise and Norma has only been on one cruise I think, to Alaska several years ago.  Anyway we were excited to be able to do this five day cruise together.

                   We are sailing out of the Port of Galveston.

We had assigned evening dining room seating at a large round table made for ten guests.  Most nights there were only 5 or 6 of us at our table until the final night of the cruise when all ten women that had been assigned to our table all showed up.  We had a great time visiting with all the other women and definitely enjoyed the awesome food and fun entertainment provided by our waiters each evening.

We were not the only sisters cruising together.  Seated at a table near us were a group of nine sisters who were on this cruise together!  Each evening they dressed up in a different theme.  I took this photo of some of them the evening they dressed as 1920 Flappers/Show girls!  They were all having such a great time together!  I remember seeing one of them on the first day when we boarded the ship........met her in a hallway......wearing a lime green tutu over her tee-shirt/shorts.  Too funny!

 

Thank you Lord for this awesome sunrise over our first port of call, Cozumel.

 Sharon is enjoying the scenery as we sail into port and watching the dock workers below as they secure our ship to the dock.

 

 Our Excursion on the island of Cozumel included a visit to a ruins park.

                                   We saw a lot of these huge lizards!

 It is obvious how much effort is being made in researching and preserving their history and culture.

 

Next we headed to the "wild" and pretty much uninhabited east side of the island of Cozumel for our lunch break and photo ops.

 The east side of the island is constantly hammered with rough waves and currents of the open Caribbean Sea.

 Norma really wanted to put her feet into the water however the Caribbean Sea's waves were crashing into shore and carrying with it piles of seaweed so deep she was unable to reach the water.

I climbed out onto this jagged rocky promontory before our Tour Guide came over and said to come down because it was dangerous.  He did snap this photo of me though!

Following a wonderful dinner with our table-mates we went to an upper deck to enjoy a spectacular sunset.

 

Our next port of call was Progresso which sits on the northern edge of the Yucatan Peninsula.  Large ships are required to dock at the end of a two mile long pier that juts out from the mainland.

 

On our Excursion we first visited the Uxmal Ruins.

                           Uxmal is very well preserved.

 The very large structures are scattered over a very large area of land.  We did a lot of walking up and down and climbing very narrow steps. 

                        The weather was awesome for a day outdoors.

Next we traveled to a old hemp plantation where sisal rope was once produced.

                            The grounds were beautifully landscaped!

          
             We saw a native woman weaving the old fashioned way.

 

Bye-Bye Progresso!  See you next time!

As always, BooBoo went cruising and as always she had FUN!

 

 

I am so thankful for this opportunity to go on a cruise with two of my sisters.  Thank you Norma and Sharon!