UNIVERSAL STUDIOS

After our cruise, we had a day before our flight left so we thought we'd try universal studios. It probably didn't help that we were land sick after being on a very choppy sea for 4 days but we didn't last long riding rides. But we had a good time in Harry Potter World. I didn't want to pay for a hopper pass just for 1 day so we didn't get to ride the train but we did ride Hagrid's motorbike. The ride was fun .. sitting in line while it broke down over and over again wasn't as much fun ... especially since i needed to pee about 30 minutes into the 3 hr wait. OY! Despite a little motion sickness, we had a good time! The next morning we made our way back home to our babies who we missed dearly, but we had such a wonderful week!!!

FREEPORT

We were supposed to visit Carnival's private island but the water was so rough the ship couldn't port. They said it was hurricane sized waves and after making several attempts throughout the night they gave up and moved on. They were then able to set up a spot to port at Freeport instead which was still reeling from a recent hurricane. We were supposed to stop here originally so I had already done my research and knew just where to go! We hitched a ride to the other side of the island where - even though the beach had been destroyed by the hurricane - we were able to snorkel in a reef, see tons of awesome fish and coral AND swim with sea turtles! IT was such an amazing experience. Because of the hurricane a lot of sea life had washed ashore and we had conches and full sized sand dollars to pick from. The owner told us that if the sand dollars were brown/white/gray they were dead and we could take them. When we got home and pulled them all out we found a tiny little crab that had found a shell far to large for it and we hadn't seen it even after bringing it back on the ship! Whoops!!!

NASSAU

Our first stop on our trip was Nassau where we took a boat to the Blue Lagoon Island and were able to  get up close and personal with a dolphin! The side of the island for snorkeling had rough waters so we weren't able to get in, but we still tried out or snorkeling gear on the other side in the calmer waters.

CRUISE TIME!

The next morning we hopped on a cruise ship! 

COCOA BEACH

Our first day we spent on Cocoa Beach! The water was pretty rough but Ty LOVED playing in it anyway. Haha. I was done getting knocked down after 20 minutes but enjoyed my time sitting on the beach in the HEAT! We ate dinner on the pier and had a nice walk on the beach in the moonlight!