Western Caribbean Cruise

We just returned from a 7 day cruise to the Caribbean. We sailed on this ship...Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Sea. Our room is on the 6th deck...just above the life boats. This picture was take in Cozumel, Mexico as we were returning from our tour of the Mayan Ruins at Tulum, Mexico. We sailed with 50 other people from the Escapee's RV club. It was fun traveling with people we knew. We have cruised by ourselves before, but this time was a lot more fun! Life is Good!!!!

Our stateroom

These are pictures of our stateroom on the cruise. Nice size rooms. The room attendant made towel animials everyday for us. Ed is checking out the monkey he had for us on Friday night. Life is good!

Promanade on our ship

The Voyager of the Sea is a huge ship. There are 14 decks just for the guests. This is a view of the center of the ship...decks 5, 6, 7, and 8. We spent a lot of time in this area either at the cafe next to the red phone booth, the soda/ice cream shop next to it or further down at the pub. We did a lot of people watching from this area. The windows on decks 6,7, and 8 belong to inside staterooms. The area on deck 5 is where all the duty free shops are...and we did spend a little time in those too! There is a casino below this area. The dinning area is at the far end on decks 3, 4 and 11. The entertainment is at this end on decks 3 and 4. They have an ice skating rink on deck 4, miniature golf, a rock climbing wall, and a in-line skating area on deck 14. The two pools and four Jacuzzis are on deck 11. There is also a very large area just for kids. They have a small kiddy pool with a water slide and a very large supervised play area. This ship is the third largest in the world.

Mayan Ruins at Tulum, Mexico

Our first stop on the cruise was Cozumel, Mexico. We traveled to the Mayan ruins at Tulum, Mexico. This area is awesome. It is located on the coast. The temple in the middle of the photo is aligned so that the sun passes through the three doors at the top on December 21 to celebrate winter solstice. We had a great tour. Just as the tour guide finished with the tour and gave us time to check out the area on our own, the sky opened up and we got drenched!! .We couldn't take any more photo's of the area...we had to head back to the bus. By the time we walked the half mile back , we were soaked to the skin. We had fun anyway. The temp. was in the 80's and it was a warm rain. Life is good!

Ruins at Tulum, Mexico

This temple has carvings of faces on the corners of the building. The picture at the top shows the face on the corner, and the picture at the bottom shows the building. Can you see the face on the building? It is directly above the people. The face on the left shows the person alive and the right corner shows the person dead. Also, the flowers here are beautiful. It is winter now...I wonder what the flowers look like in the summer!!

Gray Iguana

Iguanas like this one were all over the place at the Tulum ruins. This one was about 4 feet long..nose to tip of tail.

Two really big "boats"

We returned from our tour of the Tulum ruins and I had to take this cool pic. Our ship is the one on the left.

Voyager of the Sea

I took this photo from the street we shopped on in Roatan, Honduras. That is our ship in the background.

Coastline of Roatan, Honduras

I took this photo from the 11th deck of our ship. The port here is very small. The coastline is really pretty and the water is soooooo blue!

Shopping in Roatan, Honduras

We spent a few hours checking out the "stuff" for sale in the streets of Roatan, Honduras. We didn't buy anything....well, we did have a local beer! Hee-Hee.

The Temple at Chichen-Itza

Here we are at one of the new seven wonders of the world...Chichen-Itza in Yucatan, Mexico. We wanted to climb to the top of this temple, but that is no longer allowed. It is said that every March 21 and Sept. 21, at sunset, you can see a "light" serpent coming down the stairs on the left. Maybe if we ever travel here, we will try to make it on one of those dates so we can see for ourselves. This area is awesome!

Kelly & Walt and Sandy & Ed in front of the temple at Chichen-Itza. LIFE IS GOOD!!!