Caribean Cruise-Part 5 Heading Back to AZ to visit with Family

Cassidy guarding our luggage at the Ft. Lauderdale airport

Being a good girl coloring while waiting for 6 hours for our flight

Grammy tried out the fun game "Bop It"

Could still see our ship from the airport windows

Getting ready for take off

Can still see our ship below from the sky

When we arrived in AZ, we found time for a lot of swimming

Aunt Katie, cousins-Grace & William

Cousin Carolyn

Derek's Brother- Dr. Kevin

Cousins- Matt, Branden, Carter, Trenton

Kids playing Restaurant

Sunbathing on the pool deck

Cousin Matthew, those noodles are so fun!

Riding around the neighborhood

Eating at our favorite Mexican Restaurant: Pedro's
Niece Macey

Uncle Scott & Aunt Sara

Aunt Katie & Cousins Grace& William

Grammy with sons Kevin & Derek

Cousins Ben & Carolyn

Cousins Michael & Grace

Cousin Matthew with Cassidy

Cassidy's drawings of our trip to the Caribean:

Our cruise ship, the sandy beach, buildings to shop at, mermaids, and us on shore

Mermaids and a fish in this picture with the blue ocean

Video of the kids playing the Dancing game on the Wii. It was so fun to watch them.

Caribbean Cruise-Part 4 "St. Maarten"

Our last destination...ST. MAARTEN. This was the hottest and most humid day the entire week! Even though it was HOT, we had fun walking around the shops near the port with Grammy.

Taking pictures around the shops. Cassidy took this one. :)

Bought this flower necklace that I'm wearing in St. Thomas

Grammy's such a great sport when her daughter-in-law asks her to put a hat on so I can take a picture. She's so fun!

Cassidy wanted to join in on the fun!

Cassidy found some shade

Piranha is hungry

Our Family in Paradise

Instead of excursions, we decided to go to the beach. Since when do we get to go to the beach in Colorado? We had so much fun at the beach in St. Thomas, we wanted to do it again. Instead of taking a taxi, we took the 15 minute walk outside of the port. I loved all the palm trees.

My little Iguana

We found more places to shop, near the beach. We also found a Haagen Dazs and bought some strawberry cheesecake ice cream. Yum!

Aye Matey!

All we need is a hammock

Hair Braiding, part of the experience of going to the islands

Towards the end, Cassidy had enough with the hair braiding

Our ship in the background and my cute 'Lil Island Girl

Water felt so refreshing! Aunt Katie let us take her floatie with us on our trip and Cassidy really enjoyed that. Especially riding the small waves to shore. She couldn't stop giggling. I loved watching her excitement!

Beach Bum

Jumping off the pier for fun. Daddy sat in the shade on this pier as he watched his girls swim.

Derek also walked around the area while Cassidy and I went swimming and took some more pictures

Took a taxi boat back to the pier to get back on the ship. But before we did we bought some T-shirts and a fun frame from the stores at the port. Cassidy fell in love with an iguana stuffed animal, so we had to get that too. She named him "Beanie". The rest of the time on the ship she took him everywhere with her. It was funny to see other children with stuffed animals from Kung Fu Panda, or Mermaids, Dolls, etc but not Cassidy. I love my girl who loves dragons, dinosaurs, and iguanas, oh and cheetah's.

Derek sleeping with "Beanie" for company