A VERY special thanks to the Bellis family for returning my bag!  :) Woohoo!  Because of them, I have EVERYTHING back that was in the bag - Including these pictures.

This is the gang that went snorkeling in Grand Cayman

Rhonda, Mike H., Clint, Sara, and Bob.  Good looking group!

There is no zoom on this camera so you can tell how close we are to the ship.

This is one of Rhonda and my self portraits.  In the background you can make out the ship.  These are harder to do in the water for some reason.

Rhonda took this shot of me at about 18 feet on the reef.  We REALLY had a great time!

Back home and updating the blog (with pictures even).

I can now talk about the bag.  The night before we left the

boat I had put all of my souvenirs and our travel hard drive, 

our card reader, all of the snorkeling pictures and the underwater

camera and many, many other things in a bag that I was going to

carry off the boat.  It made it to the dock, but when the porters got 

involved the bag disappeared.  Well, you can imagine that I was

mad.  We lost a bunch of stuff, but we made it back safe.  If that is

the worst that happened, I am okay with that.  Here are some

other picture for the trip...  I hope you enjoy!

Here is my new truck... I love this tiny thing!

Street people!  The Mayans are a dancing group!

This is where we snorkeled with Clint, Sara,

Michael Holt and Bob Holt!

The Crystal Symphony parked right next to our

ship!

The Hard Rock in Grand Cayman where one of

my lost shirts came from.  (Notice the Harley place

Rhonda wouldn't let me buy a bike as a souvenir!)

Well, we have arrived at our last day at sea. I am excited to get home and see everyone, 
but not looking forward to getting back to the real world.


Yesterday brought us to Calica and Playa Del Carmen Mexico. 

It was a lot of fun for everyone.


We went to Playa Del Carmen and went to the beach.

Bought a couple t-shirts (in the missing bag) and walked the streets.




I guess this will be our last until we get home. Maybe! We love you guys!

Well, Yesterday brought our first full day at sea.  It was quite amazing to realize that there was NO land any where near us.

(a view from the Grant Atrium)

We all had a good time, and I must have walked the length of the ship 7 or 8 times.

Sunday was formal night and we all dressed up to go to dinner and a show.

The food is really good - my favorite was the duck (Clint and Michael Holt agree).

Today we are in Grand Cayman - it is Monday morning and I have taken an underwater still camera, but it is not digital, so those pictures will have to wait (Unfortunately the bag containing this film and the camera have been lost).

Love you Guys!  

Michael and Rhonda

By the way...

Just wanted to add GO ASU!

Good morning and welcome to Saturday.  Rhonda and I have made it to Tampa.  The flights down were really good.  We were able to get on the plane in Charlotte in business class (MUCH MORE ROOM).  We were the first on the plane and the first off the plane.  It was great, but that enabled us to make a beeline for the other gate in Atlanta and immediately ask about stand-by for the earlier flight.  We hit it just right and ended up in business class again for the flight to Tampa, and got here 2 hours earlier than we would have.  It was great!

Got off the plane and Ron pulled straight up and we were off to the hotel.  Just a couple miles and we were in our room.  Now, this may be the last internet for us for a while, and I am trying to make piece with that ;) - We are in the midst of getting ready to go to breakfast now, and I am just getting more excited.  We will try to keep the blog updated.  Love you all!

Michael