Cruise'n January 2011

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• Robert and I enjoyed a cruise to the southern Caribbean in January.  We had a great time relaxing on the beach and eating good food on the ship.    This first picture was taken in on the small island of Catalina, Dominica Republic.  That is our ship behind us!    Robert and his brother were able to try their luck on the Flowrider in Grand Turk.  They body surfed and surfed standing up.

 Robert and I ate at this amazing Mexican restaurant  in Aruba. 

This was our last port.  The very industrilized country of Curacao.( pronounced Cur-a-sow)   This inland use to be owned by the Netherlands. It was a slave training place for the people to bring slaves here. the slaves would stay here for two years before they sold them to the people in the Netherlands.   They learned they could get more money for the slaves if they trained them how to work.

Our last sun set aboard the Carnival Miracle!!

On Sunday after we boarded off the ship we went to the Florida Everglades.  Here is our alligator friend that followed our fan boat for about 30 minutes.

 
This is a bad picture.  I thought I choose a different one.  ( sorry, I'm still learning)   if you look closely there is an alligator sunning himself.   After we went to this alligator rescue and saw 13 foot alligators.   kind of fun.  Well I hope I didn't bore you too much.   i'm just trying to get use to this and use it as my families journal.

One more picture the kids wanted me to put on.  At the alligator rescue I had the chance to hold a 5 month old alligator and i jumped at the opportunity!