Forgot I had a video of my little fish. You can see how the water was, not too smooth sailing a lil chop but not bad at all. Perfect for kids and those not too experienced at snorkeling.
Video of swimming https://youtu.be/PnhzHiRnkSw
About an hour after lunch the boats came back to pick us up. We all loaded back in and off we went to the mangroves.
It looks so pretty and breath taking... really the pictures do not do it justice.
After a tour of the groves we took off to "Piscina Natural". which is a sandbar. Where there are TONS of huge starfish. J used the "emergency exit" to get off the boat LOL.
They gave us a lesson on how to handle the star fish, basically you should never take them out of the water. But if you do, no longer then 3 seconds. If so without that water hitting a hole they have, they die. Good to know.
Didnt notice that my camera had a drop of water on it so this is the best picture I have of all of us. I took pictures of our cruise group's families that were on our boat and some have a water drop right in the middle.
Like this, here's our captain and tour guide. Darn water! They pass out coke, juice and rum along with rum cake. The cake wasnt great but the rum hit the spot LOL.
Everyone is on the sand bar from our tour, but there is plenty of space for everyone to spread out. We never felt crowded at all.. Except on the boat, but that was a given.
A good picture of our tour guide. I believe he said he was from Italy, poor guy from one nice spot to the next! We got back on the boat and our guide let us know we would be making our way back to the mainland.
In a race for the finish!
I would take this shack right here, Im ok with calling it my home!
The yelling and chanting began in our boat, "GO GO GO GO !" Unfortunately, since Im so competitive and was yelling also, I didnt catch it on camera.
Video of our race https://youtu.be/c3M2THGE2-Q
We didnt win, but we didnt lose. When we made it back to the mainland we noticed all the resorts that were around. I didnt remember seeing them on the way out. But seeing how choppy La Romana was compaired to Punta Cana, Im glad we ended up doing a week in Punta Cana it was much calmer then the other side of the island.
Oh that, excuse my little yacht. I didnt want to make everyone jelly. So I just slummed it with everyone else in the speed boat LOL. (a girl can dream!)
Hubby said ours would be more like this... and at this point I would take it!
Once we were off the boat, I wanted to do some shopping as I knew we could get some better deals in the little huts, rather then the big shopping area we previously walked thru. But there was no time for that. The tour works hard to keep you on time as they know we all were booked on which ships to get us back asap.
Oh well. It was a fun ride back, the kids with us were all tired and took a quick nap. Everyone else was a chatty kathy, I think thanks to the rum punch.
Once we got back to the port, we stopped for a Mojito at the stand to share. Its funny I walk up and he starts speaking spanish to me... I shake my head and hubby in spanish says basically, shes a hispanic from Spain but cant speak a lick of spanish... thanks babe. All I understood after that was GRINGRO .. hey LOL. Anyhow the guy then says in english what kind of Mojito, so I look at his board of about 9drinks and name one.. Oh no all gone.
This one, nope gone
Ok how about this? NADA
E picked one, guy shook his head no.
To which I say AY OTRA VEZ, QUE PASA (Ay, again, whats up?) (the only spanish I know, besides asking where the bathroom is, whats to eat and how to order BEERS!... really thats all you need to know in any language I feel!)
Anyhow after I say my poquito of espanol, he said I'll make you my special... hmm ok. Once I had a sip it was special alright, Basically tasted like lemonade, but had a PUNCH!
As we made our way into the port shopping center, they had rum tasting. Shot, Shot, Shots everybody! They were both strong in my opinion. I ended up getting a Presidente beer as E had taken over my Mojito!
Inside we grabbed our usual souviners, Tshirt for E, Coffee mug for me, postcards, and for the life of me I cant remember what the boys got. ! Did I mention how good the mojito, rum and beer were? lol
Once we were done shopping, we went to get back on the ship. But not before a quick family photo in front of the icon of where we were.
Once on the boat we hit up Blue Iguana for a couple tacos, as the boys were hitting the showers 1st to get ready to meet up with their friends soon.
E and I grabbed a few drinks too, and relaxed on the balcony waiting for RUNNERS. This is really why I get a balcony. Im sorry I have so much fun people watching and then cheering them on.
Somehow my glasses fell and out popped a lens.. NOOO good thing I bring multiple pairs! (Sean we have so much in common lol) I always break a pair every vacation, so I have learned to bring multiple spears. Hubby was actually able to pop it back in so not all was lost.
I need a runner.... Click Here to View- https://youtu.be/eyCtryEZ0SI
After cheering on the runners, E and I got ready to head out for the night. Boys had already taken off, again no dinner with us again. We watched the sunset and had a beverage from our rum runners while enjoying the peace and quiet with a few others out on their balcony's and from the promenade deck.
We had time before dinner so we looked in the fun times and saw they had trivia going on at the Pub. Sat at the bar a bit early and had a few beverages. Red Frog for me, Bud light for the hubby.
While we were chatting it up with the bartender they got the tv's going and started taking pics of everyone around the room. We ended up being celebrities and were the only ones on the TV for a long while as the camera broke after that LOL. I'll leave the jokes to everyone else.
I was trying to take a selfie and the bartender took one for us. I tried to get him to take a selfie with us but he wasn't for it LOL.
After looking at the menu I wanted to try the coconut shrimp which were delish... unlike the fresh coconut I had on the island LOL. Appitizers are $3.33 I believe here which isnt bad at all.
We moved over to a high top table that had a washer game, where you try and get a washer thats on a string onto a hook. After playing that for a while and getting frustrated, they finally started trivia. It was a bit of everything, sports, music, history, geography. Which I suck at it all. So I told hubby GOOD LUCK lol. In the end we got like 6 or 7 out of 10.. not bad. But our friends from our cruise got all of them. They rocked. E had mentioned an answer to them so when they won and got a free tube of beer, they shared with us. How awesome were they!
We had a great time chatting and really getting to know eachother. Talking about kids, excursions etc. It was so nice to have such great people on our cruise thread to feel like you had a friend no matter where you went.
Before...
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... After
Eventually we parted ways as we both had to head to dinner. Or so I thought. Im looking through all my pictures on multiple cameras... Nice canon, point and shoot, waterproof, and both our phones and I dont see that we ever went to the dining room. Just asked E and he says I think we just grabbed a burger or something from the buffet. Then we walked the ship... hmm I really need to take better notes on my vacation lol.
I do know what we did at 11pm.. Quest time. Our group had been planning this for ever. So we staked out an area in the comedy club and the fun really began. We had a huge group of about 30, and by the end of the night most of us were missing something that we came in with... that is all that I will say. Cuz if you have ever played you know you take an oath not to share any details of what goes on in the Quest game... I will post a pic of the race to get our number up front to Matty.... oh what great laughs we had. Out of like 12 teams or so we came in 2nd or 3rd. Not bad. Had we been closer to the front we probably would have had 1st. Its a long run up lol.
Being as it was after midnight, we called it a night. Upon walking back to our room though I noticed the Liquid Nightclub was empty. Not sure if it pickes up later, I would hope so, if not thats such a waste of a space.
Waited up for the boys to come in while I posted on our cruise thread and thru the Hub App. Wanted to check where we were meeting for the excursion for Curacao tmrw. Set out the room service tag for my manatory coffee wake up. Then after sending a few pics online to those back home, I drifted off to dream land.
Next Up: Late Port stop means sleeping in... for SOME of US!
