Winter Cruise 2011 : Part 3 {St. Thomas and Half Moon Cay}

The third port we stopped in at was St. Thomas, Virgin Island and we didn't find much we could do here but we did walk around and look at all the cool beauty in front of us!

{Port}

{Sunbathing}

{Being silly}

{Hillside}

{Ships}

{Marina}

{Justin on the Balcony}

{All hands on deck}

{Close up}

{Ellie and dada}

{Closer}

{Ocean view}

{Evidence of Ellie's nosiness -- she would come here to peek over to the balcony next door}

{Sit down}

{Tranquility}

{View as we sailed away}

{Sun goes down}

{Absolutely breathtaking}

Our final stop was Half Moon Cay, Bahamas which is Holland America's private island and was the most beautiful place I've ever seen. Ellie had a blast swimming, building sand castles, running and relaxing!! Justin sat in his beach chair and relaxed more than I have seen him do in....well....since I've known him!!

Great place!

{Welcome}

{Ellie and dada -- ellie was distracted by a chicken who pranced by}

{View of our ship from the beach}

{Relaxing}

 {Ellie}

{Ellie and Mama}

{Ellie and dada testing out the waters}

{water is fine!!}

{Love}

{This isn't too bad!!}

{Boat}

{Holding hands}

{sifting sand}

{A mighty fine pair}

{run}

{Staying close to dada}

{float}

{A good time was had by all!}

{Juice break!}

{Travel mates}

{more swimming}

{more breaks}

{good life}

{I could do this all day}

{So could this girl...}

{Getting brave}

{Castles}

{Ellie and mama hard at work}

What a great cruise! It is so wonderful to see all of God's beautiful handiwork!!

     " The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork"

Psalm 19:1

We headed back to NM the day we pulled back into port and we were all exhausted!! The weather on the cruise was usually a nice and warm 80+ but we returned to temps in the 30-40's.....drastic difference!!

 It was nice to be home but we definitely had an amazing time.

There is only one question that remains: Where do we want to go next???