St. Maarten ~ Our Second Port

St. Maarten was our second port of call. It was the start of our vacation since our first port of call was all about the wedding. It is St. Maarten or St. Martin depending on if you were on the French or Dutch side.

Here we are riding on the elevator up to the Windjammer for some breakfast.

Joe on the deck overlooking St. Maarten.


Here I am also overlooking St. Maarten.

On the bus making our way to Orient Beach. (pay no attention to the guy in the background, we just picked him up along the way)

Orient Beach, our excursion for the day.

Mom on the beach

The guy in the background stuck around so we threw him a small birthday celebration. Happy 44th John!

Our surprise when we got back to our cabin. A towel animal in the shape of a dog. How cute that he's wearing my sunglasses and has the TV remote?! Oh, also our Cruise Compass explaining the next day's activities on the ship.

Stay tuned for more ports of call....

Happy B-Day John!

First things first...a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my future brother-in-law John! I hope you enjoyed your day.

I just got back from a week of client meetings in Puerto Rico. I do enjoy visting PR but it sure is a long trip back and forth. Typically I travel through Dallas and then on to PR however on the way back from PR, I had to travel thru O'Hare and then on to Phx. The flight to O'Hare was about an hour longer than to Dallas. No fun! At O'Hare we sat on the plane at the gate due to a technical problems and it was 10 degrees out. I didn't have a warm jacket with me after all I was traveling to PR and AZ. Needless to say I hope to not have to take the Chicago route to/from PR in the future as it seems that I will be traveling there every 6 mos.

I'm happy to report the LOML is down 62 lbs since his WLS (weightloss surgery). He is looking and feeling so good. Click here to see his blog. Congrats babe!!!

Oh, and here's a clip of me teaching him how to update his blog. (I was also playing with the video feature on my camera).