Highlights from Jamaica

I know, I know, I should have posted these pictuers a long time ago!  What can I say, I'm a slacker when it comes to blogging!

Anyway, we had a great time in Jamiaca.  We were there for five days and felt like we got to do pretty much everything we wanted to.  We stayed at a Sandals resort, which was really the way to go.  The only time we left the resort was to go to Dolphin Cove, which was way overpriced and not quite as fun as I'd expected.    I'd been a little worried about the food because I'm such a picky eater, but they cater to Americans, so I had plenty to eat, I even tried Jamaican jerk chicken, which was pretty good.  I will say they don't know how to make hot dogs! 

Most people there were on their honeymoons, so we felt a little old!  There was one couple we met who had gotten married at the resort and came back for their ten year anniversary.

We were both pretty diligent about putting on sunscreen so we wouldn't get burned, unfortunately that meant we came home as white as we left.

They had all kinds of water sports to try, and we tried most of them, my favorite by far was the windsurfing.  It's pretty hard, but I got going a couple times, we had a lot of fun laughing at each other as we fell.

This is the view from our hotel room, not too bad!  There were a couple mornings I woke up before Chris and I would sit out on the balcony in hopes of seeing dolphins swimming, but no such luck. 

The resort had like eight restaurants, most of which were casual, there were two fancy ones and this is one of them.  We enjoyed getting dressed up and trying their version of Asian food.  Our waiter was really nice and asked if we could take him back to America in our siutcase.

This is us snorkeling at Dolphin Cove, this was by far my favorite activity while we were there, we went twice - once at Dolphin Cove and once at the resort.  At Dolphin Cove it was an enclosed lagoon with a couple stingrays, at the resort they took us out in the ocean, which was much cooler.

Here I am holding one of the stingrays at Dolphin Cove, it was pretty weird, and very heavy.

This is also at Dolphin Cove, there was a little jungle you had to walk through before getting to the beach and all along the way there were animals and birds you could take pictures with.  We also had to walk under a canopy of spider webs, yuck!

There were lots of random things around the resort, like this giant chess board.  We also played shuffleboard and talked to a parrot.

Right outside our section of the hotel was a little pond with this enormour fish who liked to have his head pet! Every time we walked by we'd have to stop and pet the fish, it was so funny!

So, that, in a nutshell, was our trip.  We had a lot of fun and I survived my first flight over the ocean! I'm already planning our next Caribbean vacation!