Clark Girls

Hey my little lovelies! I am sooooo sad to have been away from you for so long. But let me just say that I have spent a few moment catching up on the blog and each post was amazing! Now, a little about me... or a lot! We drove through the night on Saturday to make it to Ft. Lauderdale on Sunday morning. We were pretty immediately able to get on the ship, but not into our rooms so we had to layout in our clothes for awhile. The ship was ginormous, but our room was tiny, but we def made it work. And the best part about having an interior room is that it is pitch black and perfect for sleeping! Like a little cave, we were def leo on the titanic.

After departing on Sunday we cruised south and woke up in Key West on Monday. It was a beautiful day and we were eager to jump ship and check out what was on shore. A few of us had been to Key West before so we did not book an excursion, but we did decide to rent scooters. It was absolutely way toooo much fun. You could tell the guy who was renting them to us did not expect us to come back in 1 piece! But luckily we did. We rode our scooters around the Island, past Hemingway's house and the Southernmost point of the Continental US. Then we found a scenic route that took us along the white sandy beaches so it was absolutely beautiful. We decided to stop back by the beach and layout in the sun for a few hours before hopping back on the scooters for some more joy riding. At the beach we also saw our first Speedo sighting-- JOY! Always a fat guy! After having to consult the map to make it back to where we rented the scooters from we got back on the ship and got ready for din din!

Tuesday was a day at sea! We were up on deck at 9 and already most of the sun chairs were taken! UNBELIEVABLE! So after searching we found some and went down to breakfast real fast. We got back out to our chairs and after a couple of hours turned it because it began sprinkling. We were still behind on our sleep so we took a massive 4 hour nap, and apparently, the sun did come back out, but we missed that! We def needed it though!

Wednesday we woke up in Grand Cayman! We had to ride little boats in to shore from the ship because the water there is too shallow for our giant ship. Then we got on a bus that took us to another boat! This boat drove us out to a sandbar in the middle of the ocean. There are a ton of stingrays on this sandbar (they call it stingray city) that they have been feeding for decades so they are extremely friendly and love people. So we hop in the water and snorkel with the stingrays and pet them and play with them! I will admit I was a little scared at first (I was giggling nervously!) but I warmed up to them pretty fast and soon I was swimming after them! Stephanie and Jacie were a little more on the frightened side! We all kissed the stingrays because it is apparently 7 years good luck! At Grand Caymen we also hit up a giant sea turtle farm (the biggest on is over 500 lbs!) and got to hold little babies! We also went to see a place called Hell! It is a rock formation that is supposed to be what Hell looks like and you can send postcards and whatnot from there, def a tourist trap! But cool. Apparently the rocks used to be submerged in the ocean!

Thursday we arrived in sunny Jamaica! It was absolutely beautiful. Mountainous and very rainforesty. We got off the ship here and went to Dunn's River Falls, which is a 950 ft. cascading waterfall that we climbed up with a tour guide. The whole group had to hold hands because there are parts that are hard to get to without having someone help pull you up! It was very fun and very adventurous! We absolutely loved it and the water was really refreshing. Then we headed to the Bamboo Beach Club which offered us endless jamaican food (which was very good) and drinks which were so bad that none of us could even stand to choke them down! ugh! Unfortunately, the typical spring breakers next to use were ordering trays and trays of this rum punch! Needless to say, the guys in front of us on the bus ending up vomiting all over on the way back and getting vomit on Jacie's feet. It was all Mary Connell and I could do not to completely go off on these 2 major jerks! ugh! But on the positive side, the beach was absolutely beautiful and weather was fabulous.

Friday was our last day at sea and we layed out in the sun from 8a-4p and it was pretty all day long. We just enjoyed the ship and enjoyed ourselves! Every night we had dinner at the same table with some girls from Georgia who were also on Spring Break, they were nice but we mostly kept to ourselves. We also did Karaoke most of the nights, either watching and making fun of everyone or singing! Of course I sang and my friend Stephanie did as well after a large dose of liquid courage. It was a lot of fun especially the people watching. The singers ranged from awesome to absolutely awful or absolutely wasted! They had a really cool piano bar where everyone gathered around the piano and sang all the classics which was a lot of fun. We had a few conga lines and of course did all the best dances Cha-Cha-Slide and Electric Slide as well as the macarena! All in all it was a great trip, but I am def glad to be home with my boys!!