We arrived back from a most wonderful cruise right around midnight. That was the most fun cruise ever, we all agreed! Diane did a wonderful job organizing this and keeping all 43 of us in line and behaving. The standing schedule was walking at 7:00 am, breakfast at 8:00 am dinner at 6:00 pm singing at 8:00 pm. On the days at sea we met each morning for breakfast at the elegant dining room then headed up to the deck next to the volley ball and basket ball court. The guys and sometimes girls would play while the rest of us would be laying in the sun with a book reading or visiting with our neighbor. Sunday was our first day at sea, we met in the dining room for breakfast then held church at 10:00 am. The ship did not hold church services anywhere else so we ended up with a lot of visitors.
Above people are coming into the room before the service. Mike Meister was our song leader and after singing a few songs, George Hoerr got up to give the sermon.
Our second day was the visit to Cozumel. Below we are meeting for instructions from Diane before getting off the ship.
At Cozumel we watched the dolphin show, swam with the dolphins, swam with the manatee, watched the sea lion show, learned about the Mayan's and enjoyed the sunshine.
After dinner we met in a room for our ususal singing but games were provided too. Below is a group of gamers playing scrabble and below that is a 4 some playing rook while the rest are singing and visiting.
Our next day was a visit to Progresso. Even though we knew we weren't allowed to take food off the ship, mom decided to pack a lunch and got caught by the dog. They didn't throw her in jail or anything just took the food away. Leave it to mom to get our whole group in trouble!
We had a guided tour to the Mayan ruins in Progresso which was great except the guide was a windbag and thought we wanted to hear him speak instead of exploring ourselves. By the time he finished telling us his life story we only had about an hour to see everything, not near enough time!
Above we are obediently following the guide learning about the ruins and below mom, Beth, and Betty are swimming in the sink hole.
The sink hole was beautiful clear clean fresh water so most of us took advantage of the chance to cool off in the refreshing water. We were blessed to have men with servants hearts on our trip. Below Mike is helping Gail dry her feet.
The pyramid was steep but fun to climb with a big flat area up on top. Great for taking pictures of the rest of the ruins.
We all made it back to the ship in time for dinner on board and another night of singing.
Wednesday was a relaxing day at sea then Thursday was our long drive home. What a great trip.
This morning after the walk Emily and I moved a round bale in for Evan then teased and covered Anna, who is now in her foal heat, with Valiant. We were very pleased with how well Valiant behaved. He listened to Emily and walked up to Anna like a gentleman. What an amazing change from a couple of years ago. The colt is 10 days old today, when Karin arrived to help we brought him out for a few pictures for the website.
Emily has him leading and standing tied reasonably well. I can sure tell she has worked with him. He was well behaved. Rhoda and Emily came by with Ayanna and Killian so I had to get a few pictures of those 2 horses also.
Above is Rhoda riding Ayanna and Emily riding Killian, below is Emily & Killian and below that Rhoda & Ayanna.
Both horses are doing very well and Karin was pleased. They are both going to be going to the IL Horse Fair the first weekend in March. The rest of the day was spent doing laundry. Philip came over to help Mark fix a leak in our hot water pipe so now we have hot water. Time to quit and head to bed.
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