Cruise.. Finally!!

So I know it has been over a month since our cruise but better late then never, right? Seriously this cruise was my dream vacation. The weather was awesome, so much rest and relaxation, and SO much food. I want to go back!

Taking off with the Bennionsfirst stop: Grand Cayman Island. found the best deal out to sting ray city. Our husbands are shameless bargainers. Standing in front of about 30 island people all trying to get us to come on their sting ray tour and buddy yells : CAN ANYONE BEAT $25? of course one woman could/would and everyone else was ticked... Here we are getting ready to take off from the harbor.Jen and Bud. Great great traveling friends.Can you beleive the color of the water? I was in awe the whole time.
Sting Ray City

Seven years good luck for kissing a sting ray! These pics were taken on a water proof disposable camera. I was pretty pleased with how they turned out BFF's
We stopped at a beach on our way back to the cruise ship. Does this picture look familiar? (refer back to the last post) ..... So nice Hondoras!!! Despite the hoards of people attacking us, the chain link fence, the little kids begging for money, and the many guards supervising, hondoras was beautiful!

Carlos... Our dependable driver. It took us a while to get to the beach but we finally made it. Oh Gary, we liked you so much more before we actually met you Beliz City. It was rainy and drab the day we were there so we decided to forgo the beach and see the city. Parker and Henry.We went on a horse-buggy ride around the city.oh don't worry, thats just some people breaking into a car in the middle of the day..A little tienda we stopped at to get treats.Our driver, Ryan. He loves Obama. He also likes to play basketball and smoke pot. ONe of the days at sea we went on a tour of the kitchen which was actaully really cool because it is HUGE... but this was my favorite picture from the tour...like seriously who makes this? we really dressed up for formal night...
mmmm... drinking our well earned pina colada's on deck. :)

Last stop: Cozumel Mexico.We cruised arouned the entire island on this little scooter. One of the highlights of the trip: watching buddy trying to get on this floating platform. He literally tried for 10 minutes. of course parker didn't help.Jenny's cute baby belly.Pretty rocks that water would splash up against and come up through little holes in the rock.
George and BANCHA!!! the best waiters on the cruise.mmm... the sushi bar you could find me at almost every night.
The mini golf course we played at least 5 times.

Shuffle board at dusk...

The cruise was amazing. It was absolutely ideal. So fun. So beautiful. Such a great time. It is amazing to see different places on this earth and how beautiful and diverse different places are. I love the desert and the mountains but I think the carribean takes the cake!

cruise to the carrib

so we are heading out on sunday to the carribean for a whole 7 nights! I seriously can't wait. I haven't ever been on a cruise so I'm a little nervous of getting sick, besides the fact that there very well may be numerous hurricanes down there with us... we are stopping in beliz, cozumel, grand cayman, and roatan islands. I love anticipating a trip almost as much as I love going on it so this week I have been trying to research things to do/pack/wear. Have any of you been on cruises? What did you wish you would/wouldn't have done/had/couldn't have lived without?

I want this to be me... (isn't there something funny about this picture? it makes me laugh).

Mabey Farm

I've been in the davidson family for more than a year and half and still hadn't been over the mabey farm yet. Mark mabey is married to park's sister jen, and it was pretty much a crime that I hadn't been there yet. The corn fields are gorgeous and it's in the shadow of the south jordan temple. The corn is the best corn I've ever had too. It makes me want to have a farm...or a horse... or maybe just a really good garden. I don't know if I would be cut out to live on a farm. Reminds me of a book I read this summer that I absolutely loved called These Is My Words by Nancy Turner. amy gave it to me to read and it so so good. Read it...

122 days until this is for real

graduation was great. It gave me a twinge of desire to get a master's degree but not at the same time. Thank you family for coming to support me! It was a beautiful day. I love the student speaker that talked about all the hard work we have done to graduate but that sometimes it is the people around us that make bigger sacrifices than we do. Parker has put up with a lot and has given up things he wanted to do so that I can finish school and I am so grateful for that! Also my parents have been there every step of the way and been so encouraging and supportive. Thank you family. i love you. I'm almost done!