Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Farewell for now, Maybe in a few days I will have my house put together enough to take pictures of the inside for you all. Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. Love the Roarks
It was the end of the day, back on the ship. We had an awesome time in Jamaica.
Another look out point, thats our boat.
After the falls our driver took us up to Fern Gully it was a steep, curvy road up the mountainside through a rain forest it was beautiful. At the top you get this great view of the mountains. The farthest mountain back behind us is where Bob Marley is buried.
We could take our camera with us, so after we climbed the whole thing we went back to the viewing decks and took pictures. Yes Kali is sad and mad, when we were about 3/4 of the way through Kali was in front of me I slipped and landed right on her. She got a little scrached up but she was ok.
Do you see the falls back there
This is by Dunn's River Falls were we climbed 900 feet up a water fall. This by far is one of the funnest things I have ever done
This is what made the whole trip worth it Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Not only did Kevin get his 15 minutes of fame he also got a ship on a stick. A trophy of the cruise boat. WOW!!!
To make up for missing our stop they planned a lot of activities. One being Fear Factor. Kevin was chosen to go up and we knew he would win. After passing an orange and diving for golf balls and holding his breath, he and this other lucky guy got to eat 9 slices of lemons and limes including the rinds, and pasta with coleslaw covered in tobascco sauce, and washed it down with worchestosire sauce.
After a scheduled 2 days at sea, we were finally at our second stop Cayman Islands. Can you see it back there, no, oh thats ok we didn't see it either it was to stormy and we couldn't get off. Yet another fun filled day at sea.
Now we are back on the boat for some more swimming, and eating
Ohh arn't we cute
The one and only souvenir we ended up getting if you can believe it, And yes, now we regret it.
Sorry a little out of order I just saw some more Costa Maya pictures I wanted to add.
After our fun filled day in Mexico we had two more fun filled days on the boat. We did some more eating and some more swimming.
If you couldn't tell this is me, Kaden and Kevin I think
After a few hours of playing in the sand and kayaking we took a snorkeling excursion. With a storm blowing in the water was choppy, but we had a good time, all except for Kali who liked snorkeling until she had to go in the water.
Relaxing in the one of two days of sun we had.
First stop was Costa Maya, Mexico. We went to a private beach called non other than Tequila Beach. It was neat we got all the drinks and nacho's a person could handle.
We were enjoying ourselves on the ship, we a day at sea the first day. This was in the morning, notice the kids have already been swimming, Kevin is on his second breakfast and Kali has an icecream in her hand. How fun is that!
The first night they had a welcome to the boat party for the kids at camp carnival, the kids had a great time but refused to go to the camp the rest of the trip. To bad for me and Kevin
After a total of another 900 miles we made to to Miami and set sail November 19.
We made a quick stop at Daytona Beach, it was a little chilly but that didn't stop the kids, all 4 of the from having fun
We all had a great time at Universal.
This is the kids being eaten by Jaws, and you wonder why Kali is afraid of the ocean.
This is us waiting to go on the Jaws ride, it freaked the kids out, it was fun,

The Cruise, we left on November 16th and headed for Florida. After a quick stay in Savanna we continued on to Orlando to enjoy a day at Universal Studio's.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

till next time when the adventures continue with our cruise to the western Caribbean over Thanksgiving. Love you all and I will be thinking of you while sun bathing, stuffing myself with turkey.

We went to Fort Macon while we were at Atlantic Beach it was really neat
surfs up
body surfing with dad
Now that we are 80 miles from the ocean, we took a little vacation from unpacking and went to Atlantic Beach for some sun and sand. It was very nice.
Our new house 2121 Braselton Dr. Winterville North Carolina I will send pictures of the inside when it is not a mess. Do you love it, I do
The trees are so beautiful
here we are home well almost. About 3 more hours to go
another unexpected detour, thats ok I think Virginia is the best state we went through
between Nashville and Knoxville

Next stop Knoxville, Tennessee. The view is getting very pretty and the car ride is not that bad besides the DVD Player breaking down:(
anything to keep them happy
What you do to entertain yourself.
Cute Kali Girl
This is us 630 feet up.

This is Tanner's view. Notice the St. Louis Cardinals stadium.

While in Missorri we thought we would go by the St. Louis Arch it was really cool, and if you can believe it Kevin was more freaked out than I was.

after a fun morning at the museum we were on the road again. Next stop Aunt Shela's in Columbia Missorri. They made us feel right at home, the kids got to ride the horses thank you Nat (the horse) Thank you Uncle Mike for doing that for us. Missorri was very pretty, it just keeps getting better and better.

I haven't been to the new museum in Salt Lake but this one was pretty cool